Qt Designer: Providing context in “dummydata/context” doesn't work

MarcVanDaele

A component often uses some context properties (eg parent.width) and hence, when designing this component in Qt Quick Designer, it is useful to somehow provide this context.

The Qt Quick Designer documentation states that it should be possible to provide this parent context object in the dummydata/context directory.

However, I don't get it working

I have a main.qml file containing

import QtQuick 2.0

Rectangle {
    width:parent.width
    height:parent.height
    color: "green"
}

and I have a dummydata/context/main.qml file containing

import QtQuick 1.0
import QmlDesigner 1.0

DummyContextObject {
    parent: Item {
        width: 640
        height: 300
    }
}

However, when opening main.qml in Designer, it still gets width=height=0.

Any ideas how to get this working?

Thomas Hartmann

To be honest this is a feature we haven't tested for a long time in the Qt Quick 2 context. Can you create an official bug report.