My QQuickRenderControl isn't calling the render function if root QQuickItem isn't “dirty”

[alberto.toglia]

I'm experimenting with the "RenderControl" project from Qt's Examples with the goal of knowing how fast would Qt's Quick Framework with a QQuickRenderControl would render an empty scene.

The source can be found here

For this, I've removed almost everything from the qml file and left a simple rectangle but I noticed that my WindowSingleThreaded::render() stopped being called altogether.

I saw that introducing a simple SequentialAnimation to the root item made the WindowSingleThreaded::render() get called again every frame.

Now I'm sure this would be somewhat ideal for all those cases where you don't want to re-render your scene if nothing has changed but in my case, I want to have full control over the rendering loop even if the qml scene isn't "dirty".

I saw that maybe a qml Timer could be introduced to try to have the scene forcefully updated but even this doesn't sound like the ultimate solution as I want to avoid going to javascript and back every frame.

Does anyone know how I can forcefully have WindowSingleThreaded::render() whether the QQuickWindow wants it or not.

Thanks