[SailfishDevel] Undocumented Silica components

Timur Kristóf timur.kristof at gmail.com
Mon Jan 6 15:36:55 UTC 2014


Hey Robin,

What is the recommended way to use those things in a Sailfish app right now?

Thanks,
Timur


Timur



On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Robin Burchell <robin.burchell at jolla.com>wrote:

>  For things in Qt itself, keep an eye on Qt upstream. When they are part
> of an official Qt release (that is: stable API), then we can look at them
> when we upgrade.
>
>  As far as I know, nobody has yet prioritised work on either of those,
> and platform support is scarce, so I don’t see them happening in the
> immediate future.
>
>  BR,
> Robin
>
>   On 06 Jan 2014, at 12:57, Timur Kristóf <timur.kristof at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi Martin,
>
> So, we're okay with using PullDownMenu::busy and OpacityRampEffect, but we
> should avoid GlassItem for the moment. Right?
>
>  What about other APIs that are there but aren't allowed yet, such as
> QtDocGallery and QtFeedback? When can we use those in harbour?
>
> Thanks,
> Timur
>
>
> Timur
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Martin Jones <martin.jones at jolla.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As a general rule, if it’s not documented then it isn’t public API.
>>
>> The GlassItem API hasn’t been reviewed for public use. It will probably
>> change and is not safe for use.
>> The busy property of PullDownMenu is documented, but the docs have not
>> been updated in the SDK.
>> OpacityRampEffect has been reviewed for public use, but is not yet
>> documented. We’ll do this asap.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Martin.
>>
>>
>> On 3 Jan 2014, at 6:58 am, Luciano Montanaro <mikelima at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I don't know if this has been addresed already, but...
>> >
>> > In my application, I would like to use a few components that the
>> > componentgallery is demoing, but that are not documented in the
>> > reference documentation.
>> > Is it OK to use everything that works there?
>> >
>> > Specifically, I want to use
>> >
>> > * OpacityRampEffect for my coverpage
>> > * the busy property of the PullDownMenu while fetching status updates
>> > * possibly the GlassItem as an indicator of the train delay
>> >
>> > Since I would like for my application to eventually be distributed
>> > through the Harbour, I would like to know if it is OK to do so.
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> > Luciano
>> >
>> > --
>> > Luciano Montanaro
>> >
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