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iHowell
iHowell

Reputation: 2447

Qt Quick Dynamically Custom Layouts (like workspaces in an IDE)

The project I'm working on calls for workspace layouts for a large section of it, by which I mean that users can move around panes, resize them, close them, etc., like in VSCode (but more like Emacs since VSCode does not currently support both vertical and horizontal splitting).

The current methodology I'm considering to create a custom LayoutManager that has a json object and injects views into recursive Row and Column objects in a binary-tree-like structure. Before I start this undertaking, I'm wondering if there is a library or set of QtQuick (QML) elements that would let me do this a lot more easily or if there is a better approach to this problem. Or, please just tell me why I'm wrong in doing it this way.

Note: The technologies I'm using are C++ with Qt 5 (currently 5.10).

Upvotes: 0

Views: 834

Answers (1)

dtech
dtech

Reputation: 49279

If you want highly customizable GUI, with the option of persisting UI configuration, it is best to design the whole thing model driven.

QML already has the necessary stuff - list views, repeaters and so on. QML is a little at odds with tree models, but you can essentially fake a tree by using lists of lists.

The model provided here will do the trick, with the added benefit it also supports declarative instantiation. So you can easily set up an initial GUI state declaratively, like you would with normal QML, but then allow the user to make modifications to that initial state which can then be saved and recalled.

Then all you have to do is bind the desired GUI elements to the underlying model data source objects.

Upvotes: 1

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