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:
- 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
- QML (Qt Meta-Object Language): an easy to use, declarative language
- 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 :)
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