Subclassing QML Image item

[redkite]

Hello,

I'm trying to create a QML Image item from a C++ class, for dynamically adding image into a QDeclarativeView.
I found that I need to herit from QDeclarativeItem and to implement paint(...).

Isn't it possible to directly use/herit the QML item "Image":http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/4.8/qml-image.html" instead? Like this, I would only need to set the property "source" by my self, and the painting, the scaling, the fitting, ... will be managed automatically like "Image":http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/4.8/qml-image.html" item from QML component did?

[mbrasser]

Hi,

It isn't possible to use or inherit QDeclarativeImage directly from C++ (it is a private class). One option for creating and manipulating Image elements from C++ is the following:

@
QQmlEngine engine;
QQmlComponent component(&engine);
component.setData("import QtQuick 1.0;\nImage {}", QUrl());
QObject *object = component.create();
@

You could then set the source either via QObject::setProperty(), or by manipulating the string passed to setData().

Regards,
Michael

[redkite]

Thanks for the reply,

it was already what I did (I suppose you mean QDeclarativeComponent in Qt 4.8.1), except that I was loading a nearly empty QML file :
@QDeclarativeComponent component(engine, QUrl::fromLocalFile("myimage.qml"));@

But it's still not allowing me to get a C++ class like MyImage which would also be a QDeclarativeImage.

I was needing a direct inherit from my C++ class to the declarative class for easily founding my C++ class from the parent item of an other QML item using findChild.