summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/doc/src/declarative/declarativeui.qdoc
blob: 9b4427368226c5272f0b013675b359359b184e76 (plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
/****************************************************************************
**
** Copyright (C) 2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
** All rights reserved.
** Contact: Nokia Corporation (qt-info@nokia.com)
**
** This file is part of the documentation of the Qt Toolkit.
**
** $QT_BEGIN_LICENSE:FDL$
** Commercial Usage
** Licensees holding valid Qt Commercial licenses may use this file in
** accordance with the Qt Commercial License Agreement provided with the
** Software or, alternatively, in accordance with the terms contained in a
** written agreement between you and Nokia.
**
** GNU Free Documentation License
** Alternatively, this file may be used under the terms of the GNU Free
** Documentation License version 1.3 as published by the Free Software
** Foundation and appearing in the file included in the packaging of this
** file.
**
** If you have questions regarding the use of this file, please contact
** Nokia at qt-info@nokia.com.
** $QT_END_LICENSE$
**
****************************************************************************/

/*!
\title Qt Quick
\page qtquick.html
\ingroup qt-gui-concepts


\brief Qt Quick provides a declarative framework for building highly
dynamic, custom user interfaces.

Qt Quick provides a declarative framework for building highly dynamic,
custom user interfaces from a rich set of \l{QML Elements}{QML elements}.
Qt Quick helps programmers and designers collaborate to
build the fluid user interfaces that are becoming common in portable
consumer devices, such as mobile phones, media players, set-top boxes
and netbooks. Qt Quick consists of the QtDeclarative C++ module, QML, and
the integration of both of these into the Qt Creator IDE. Using the QtDeclarative
C++ module, you can load and interact with QML files from your Qt application.

QML is an extension to \l{About JavaScript}{JavaScript}, that provides
a mechanism to declaratively build an object tree of
\l{QML Elements}{QML elements}.  QML improves the integration between
JavaScript and Qt's existing QObject-based type system, adds support for
automatic \l{Property Binding}{property bindings} and provides
\l{Network Transparency}{network transparency} at the language level.

The \l{QML Elements}{QML elements} are a sophisticated set of
graphical and behavioral building blocks.  These different elements
are combined together in \l{QML Documents}{QML documents} to build
components ranging in complexity from simple buttons and sliders, to
complete Internet-enabled applications like a photo browser for the
popular \l{http://www.flickr.com}{Flickr} photo-sharing site.

Qt Quick builds on \l{QML for Qt programmers}{Qt's existing strengths}.
QML can be be used to incrementally extend an existing application or
to build completely new applications.  QML is fully
\l{Extending QML in C++}{extensible from C++} through the QtDeclarative
Module.

\section1 Getting Started

\list
\o \l{Introduction to the QML language}
\o \l{QML Tutorial}{Tutorial: 'Hello World'}
\o \l{QML Advanced Tutorial}{Tutorial: 'Same Game'}
\o \l{QML Examples and Demos}
\o \l{QML for Qt Programmers}
\o \l{Getting Started Programming with QML}
\o \l{Beginning Qt Quick}
\endlist

\section1 Core QML Features
\list
\o \l{QML Documents}
\o \l{Property Binding}
\o \l{Network Transparency}
\o \l{QML Scope}
\o \l{Integrating JavaScript}
\o \l{Data Models}
\o \l{Anchor-based Layout in QML}
\o \l{QML States}
\o \l{QML Animation}
\o \l{Keyboard Focus in QML}
\o \l{QML Modules}
\o \l{Extending types from QML}
\o \l{Dynamic Object Management in QML}
\o \l{Qt Declarative UI Runtime}
\endlist

\section1 Using QML with C++
\list
\o \l{Using QML in C++ Applications}
\o \l{Integrating QML with existing Qt UI code}
\o \l{Tutorial: Writing QML extensions with C++}
\o \l{Extending QML in C++}
\endlist

\section1 Reference
\list
\o \l{QML Elements}
\o \l{QML Global Object}
\o \l{QML Internationalization}
\o \l{QML Security}
\o \l{QtDeclarative Module}
\o \l{Debugging QML}
\o \l{QML Viewer}
\o \l{QML Performance}
\o \l{QML Coding Conventions}
\endlist
*/