[SailfishDevel] My sailfishapplication-less setup/project (which enables the use of setContext*)

[Tone Kastlunger]

+1 on this;
a non-qml project type would be very usefull IMO.


On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Superpelican <superpelican at zoho.com> wrote:

>  Hello,
>
> Building on my custom main.cpp which I've showed earlier, I've created a
> sailfishapplication project less project. Which allows you to use the
> setContext* methods which are useful for QML/C++ communication/integration.
> I now also have a custom .pro file, which has the sailfishapplication.*
> stuff removed and has the necessary stuff that was previously in
> sailfishapplication.pri integrated. My custom main.cpp and .pro are in the
> tar.gz archive attachment. I hope this is useful for other SailfishDevel
> list members and saves them some work ;). Of course you will need to edit
> the "TARGET", "desktop.files" and "OTHER_FILES" sections to match your
> app's name and edit the "SOURCES" and "HEADERS" sections according to the
> .cpp's and .hpp's/.h's your project contains.
>
> My project tree now looks like:
>
> My_Project
>  |--Headers
>  |--Sources
>  |--QML
>  |     |--cover
>  |     +--pages
>  |--Other files
>        |--rpm
>       +--My_Project.desktop
> (Sorry for the bad tree, I'm no ASCII art pro ;) )
>
>
> The whole sailfishapplication project is left out completely as you can
> see in the tree, no unnecessary stuff left :)
>
> Maybe Jolla can include 2 separate SailfishOS application templates in the
> beta SDK, one "SailfishOS QML only application" template and a "SailfishOS
> Qt Quick/C++ application" template (with a special main.cpp that allows the
> use of setContext* like my main.cpp and custom .pro like mine) :) that
> would be really handy. Especially because Jolla suggest on sailfishos.orgthat Sailfish apps are written in a mixture of QML and C++. So IMHO they
> should have a QML/C++ friendly template ;)
> u
> Also some links on sailfishos.org to the Qt-project Wiki's pages about
> QML/C++ communication/integration would be welcome (or additional
> documentation written by Jolla :) ). As like I said above Jolla suggests
> that Sailfish apps are written in a QML/C++ mixture, while (almost) all of
> the documentation or links to documentation on Qt-project.org on
> sailfishos.org is QML only.
>
> I hope this useful for the other SailfishDevel list members and my
> feedback is useful for Jolla :) And thanks for all the help I got on this
> list and for all the awesome work the Jolla guys and women are doing :),
> keep up the good work! ;),
>
> Superpelican
>
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