On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Thomas McGuire <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Matt, > > On Tuesday 14 May 2013 10:54:46 Mark wrote: >> While looking through the Qt Sensors docs i find that to be very much >> focused on mobile device sensors as in phones, tablets and everything >> in between. > > Yep, that has indeed between the primary and only use-case for QtSensors so > far. > >> However, the ancient old sensors of HDD, GPU and CPU seem >> nowhere to be found. > >> Can the Qt Sensor package add support for that? > > Adding new sensors is quite possible, adding a QHeatSensor with an associated > sensor backend would certainly be technically feasible. > This could even be done outside of the official QtSensors, as all the API for > that is public (well, except adding new QML types, but then, you can export > the QSensor subclass instance directly to QML as well). > >> Is it even suitable to add support for that? I'm asking because even >> the abstract base class "QSensor" [1] is quite focused on mobile >> devices considering the *orientation properties. > > Right, I am not sure if these kind of sensors would fit very well. Technically > it would certainly be possible. Maybe Lorn Potter, the maintainer, can answer > about the vision of QtSensors and what type of sensors it should encompass. > > Regards, > Thomas > -- > Thomas McGuire | [email protected] | Software Engineer > KDAB (Deutschland) GmbH&Co KG, a KDAB Group company > Tel. Germany +49-30-521325470, Sweden (HQ) +46-563-540090 > KDAB - Qt Experts - Platform-independent software solutions > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest >
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