Qt Quick (Qt User Interface Creation Kit)

Qt Quick (Qt User Interface Creation Kit)

https://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/QML

Qt Quick (Qt User Interface Creation Kit)

The key new feature of the Qt 4.7 [doc.qt.nokia.com] and Qt Creator [developer.qt.nokia.com] 2.1 releases is Qt Quick [doc.qt.nokia.com]: a high-level UI technology that allows developers and UI designers to work together to create animated, touch-enabled UIs and lightweight applications. It includes:

1. New Tools in the Qt Creator IDE: including a visual editor that allows UI designers and developers to cooperate, working on the same code in an iterative approach
2. QML (Qt Meta-Object Language): an easy to use, declarative language
3. QtDeclarative: a new module in the Qt library that enables a new declarative programming approach

And while no C++ programming skills are needed to use Qt Quick, it is 100% based on Qt and can be extended from C++ (and other languages, thanks to the bindings), limited only by your creativity.

Scope (Qt Creator 2.1 and Quick)

• QML project wizard and project management (new file format for pure QML applications)
• Advanced QML editor with syntax highlighting, code completion, integrated help features and more
• Qt Quick Designer: Visual WYSIWYG editor to create Qt Quick user interfaces (technical preview)
• Qt Quick Components: Common UI Elements that fit into platform Look & Feel

QML vs. Widget-based GUI

Qt beginners often ask: What option will be the best for creating my user interface. With Qt there are 3 techniques (wich can be integrated):

• using Qt Designer to create *.ui files, a XML-based UI description
• coding the setup of your UI in C++ with Qt widgets classes
• write or visually design (or modeling with Qt Creator 2.1) QML files

The HowTo is still to be done but use the tag qml vs widget [developer.qt.nokia.com] when searching and finding, thx :)

Links

• Getting Started [doc.qt.nokia.com]
• Creating a Qt Quick Application [doc.qt.nokia.com]
• Creating QML Components [doc.qt.nokia.com]
• Open Qt Quick Components [developer.qt.nokia.com]
• Qt Quick sync meeting minutes [developer.qt.nokia.com]
• Exporting QML from photoshop and GIMP – WIP
• QML UI examples on Forum Nokia [projects.forum.nokia.com]
• Qt Quick Tutorial [developer.qt.nokia.com]

Categories:

• Developing with Qt
  • Qt Quick