Hi Gianluca,
2016-03-30 10:16 GMT+02:00 Gianluca <gmax...@gmail.com>:
>
> Il giorno 30/mar/2016, alle ore 07:43, Elvis Stansvik <elvst...@gmail.com>
> ha scritto:
>
> Den 30 mar 2016 8:36 fm skrev "Elvis Stansvik" <elvst...@gmail.com>:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I can understand why I can do
>>
>> property Item foo: Foo {}
>> property Item bar: Bar {}
>> property variant items: {
>> "foo": foo,
>> "bar": bar
>> }
>>
>> but not
>>
>> property variant items: {
>> "foo": Foo{},
>> "bar": Bar{}
>> }
>>
>> The first opening { in the second example probably puts me in JS
>> territory, where the Item {} syntax is not understood as a static definition
>> of an item.
>>
>> However, is there some way of defining a map of static items like this,
>> without having to bind the item instances to properties first? Such that I
>> can later do e.g. items["foo"] to access an item?
>
> I should state my use case as well: I'm doing a small page based embedded
> app (less than 20 pages), based on a StackView, where I'm thankfully not
> hardware constrained (it's a fast PC). So I have no reason to use Loader to
> load pages dynamically but was thinking of keeping them all statically in a
> map, so that I can switch page based on the name of the page (e.g
> "WelcomeScreen") by calling some function or perhaps emitting a signal with
> the name as argument.
>
> For this use cases (and others), I usually use one of the ObjectModel,
> DelegateModel or Package (or the older VisualDataModel). They are wonderful
> for creating models containing QML object and they can created as you want.
> Also DelegateModel can contains groups so you can filter them, and Package
> let you to name the items so you can access using dot syntax: views.foo,
> views.bar
> In your case, I will use DelegateModel and access using numeric index, but
> you can also explore Package and use the attached propertied Package.name to
> give a name to all the views.
Thanks a lot for the suggestions.
I must ask though. Why would you use a DelegateModel in my case? Would
you manage the name -> index mapping separately then? (to avoid
hardcoded indices throughout the code).
I think I will go the Package route, the dot syntax seems like a nice
thing I can use.
Elvis
>
> Ciao,
> Gianluca.
>
>
>
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