> On 16 Jun 2017, at 16:17, Sze Howe Koh <szehowe....@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 15 June 2017 at 01:29, Tuukka Turunen <tuukka.turu...@qt.io> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Yes, we would like to overall improve the examples. This is related to > > having a new repo for examples, but not fully the same thing. Main goal in > > example improvement being to make them more useful in what they are: > > examples of how to use Qt. Currently there are some examples that implement > > their own rudimentary controls instead of using Qt Quick Controls 2. We > > also have some examples that do not properly leverage our tooling. Some > > examples might not show the very best way to do things, as the new APIs > > allow even better way than at the time of creating the example. > > > > What comes to WOW, we do need to have great looking demos and at least some > > examples should look good as well. However, that WOW should not be the > > ultimate goal. The purpose of examples is to help users make better use of > > Qt and sometimes making things too shiny can be counterproductive. Another > > thing is that this WOW is a quite subjective matter and different trends > > come and go. It is fine to make an example look great, but that should not > > be the sole purpose. > > > > Yours, > > > > Tuukka > > Understood. > > On the topic of showing users "how to use Qt" and "leverage our tooling", I > feel that our "getting started" tutorials/examples need some love too. > > IMHO, the "Getting Started" tutorial from Qt 4.3 > (https://doc.qt.io/archives/4.3/tutorial-t1.html) is more accessible to > beginners than http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/gettingstartedqt.html mainly because the > Qt 4.3 tute presents material in digestible chunks. Readers are introduced to > the bare bones, and get to compile and interact with their code very early > on. Then, the tute gradually introduces more and more concepts across a > number of chapters; each chapter builds upon the previous. The reader gets to > build and try out the new concepts in each chapter, before moving on to the > next. > > In contrast, the Qt 5 tutorial takes the reader through a multitude of > concepts (Qt Designer, the UIC file format, the *.pro file, subclassing > widgets, the Q_OBJECT macro, properties, signals and slots, layouts, and many > different classes) before the reader is taught how to compile and run their > first app. If the reader made a mistake somewhere along the way, it's hard to > find out where. There is far too much material packed into a single "getting > started" article. > > I'm thinking of spending some time to update the Qt 4.3 tutorial (chapters 1 > - 7) for Qt 5, presented in a few different ways to show how to do the same > thing using different Qt technologies: > > 1. C++ only > 2. C++ with Qt Designer > 3. QML only > 4. QML with Qt Quick Designer > > Is this something you'd want in the official documentation? > > > Regards, > Sze-Howe > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > Development@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
+100 We seem to, lately, have a lot of beginners on the forum that would benefit from such a nice set of tutorials. Cheers, Samuel
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