Hi,
Doesn't QML have the abilities Jonathan is describing?
The ability to resize based on form factor is demonstrated in the Ubuntu
Phone apps which use QML. Perhaps this is what he is asking?
On 04/30/2016 12:15 PM, Tres Finocchiaro wrote:
Perhaps I didn't answer the question fully...
Is this already being done?
No, the CSS that Qt supports doesn't seems to have the capabilities
you speak of.
How are things being done currently?
This is a very broad statement. Layout of Windows
(MDI-style-sub-windows, you know the ones the 90s thought were a good
idea) are done through the QMdiArea/QMdiSubWindow
<http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qmdisubwindow.html> C++ classes that are
provided with the Qt framework.
The layout of the GUI components is quite far behind anything you're
describing. Just a standard overflow-style-layout where components
overflow naturally doesn't work well with Qt out of the box.
Some items, such as the QMdiSubWindow title bars
<https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/2450> can't even be themed out of
the box and require some custom C++ code to draw properly (leveraging
CSS for the styling of individual items when possible of course
<https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/pull/2516/files#diff-5e0b9f5887910241c7d7a7d4b359cfe1L411>).
Individual Widgets use QWidget
<https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/blob/master/include/TabBar.h#L39>, but
still don't have full CSS support you speak of. They're mostly bound
to the QMdiArea or whatever container they're attached/added/contained
within/to.
Although CSS allows the styling of components within LMMS, the layout
of them inside their container is very (very) static currently. We're
working to make this better (e.g. with our new theme
<https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/2587>), but the end-goal would be
to implement something like a single-window interface
<https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/1911> (abolish the QMdiArea) and
have a dedicated framework for drawing and layout out our GUI elements.
The UI in the single-window proposal is written by @fundamental/Zyn
author and his work is available here (specific to Zyn for now):
https://github.com/fundamental/zyn-ui-two
This is more than just a layout engine though. To achieve true
real-time DSP, Qt's signals and slots will go away (we rely on them
quite heavily now
<https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=slots&type=Code>).
This also requires a good decoupling of the GUI and the core using a
new message handling approach
<https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/pull/2252> (<- closed/wontfix).
But even when all of this is done, will component layout be CSS
driven? Probably not (or only in part) It'll more likely be driven
by the underlying C++ layout engine, but you can ping @fundamental if
you'd like to know more about that.
- tres.finocchi...@gmail.com <mailto:tres.finocchi...@gmail.com>
On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Tres Finocchiaro
<tres.finocchi...@gmail.com <mailto:tres.finocchi...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>Is there a way we can take advantage of css and media queries
to make managing different screen sizes and resolutions easier
to deal with in terms of layout?
No unless you have a link you can share.
But our components aren't HTML `div`s. I'm not sure what you're
saying. Media queries are uses in HTML primarily as a way to
resize the page for different size screens (tablet, mobile, etc).
Unless you can link us something that assists with layout, you're
not sparking interest, just confusion.
- tres.finocchi...@gmail.com <mailto:tres.finocchi...@gmail.com>
On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Jonathan Aquilina
<eagles051...@gmail.com <mailto:eagles051...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I've seen mentions to css in the new theme rework being done
by Rebecca and crew, by the way, I love the new look.
Is there a way we can take advantage of css and media queries
to make managing different screen sizes and resolutions easier
to deal with in terms of layout?
On 30 Apr 2016 6:38 pm, "Tres Finocchiaro"
<tres.finocchi...@gmail.com
<mailto:tres.finocchi...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Don't reply to me personally, and please answer the question.
Your post makes absolutely no sense in C++ unless you have
a reference to illustrate.
- tres.finocchi...@gmail.com
<mailto:tres.finocchi...@gmail.com>
On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Jonathan Aquilina
<eagles051...@gmail.com <mailto:eagles051...@gmail.com>>
wrote:
I'm referring to it in the source code as I'm seeing
mentions and references to qt in regards to styling
On 30 Apr 2016 6:22 pm, "Tres Finocchiaro"
<tres.finocchi...@gmail.com
<mailto:tres.finocchi...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Where? Our website? Of course.
https://github.com/LMMS/lmms.io/blob/master/public/css/style.css
Unless you're talking C++. If that's the case,
provide a link of what you're talking about.
- tres.finocchi...@gmail.com
<mailto:tres.finocchi...@gmail.com>
On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 4:14 AM, Jonathan Aquilina
<eagles051...@gmail.com
<mailto:eagles051...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hey guys,
This is more of a question to spark an
interesting discussion. in terms of window
sizes text sizes etc. Seeing as web sites take
advantage of media queries to be able to cater
for all sorts of different screen sizes. This
would make things very easy to maintain as
fixes would need to be made and adjusted at
the css level only and not in the code.
Is this already being done? How are things
being done currently?
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