Still all about QML. QtWidgets (C++) is well maintained but it's clear that they aren't really focusing on it.
I really wanted to like QML. It gets lots of things right, but it's just so unfinished, and a few things are really weird, like ... I'm pretty sure object IDs sit in a global namespace and can be accessed by any component. A child component can access its parent, which just screams spaghetti.
And as far as I know there's still no way to have text in a custom widget. I wanted to make a QML graph widget. The lines are easy... but labels. The API for that is still private.
Another example: I wanted a log window, like a compilation log or something. There's only one QML widget for that and the only operations you can do on it are append(string) and remove(offset, length). You can't remove the first line of text for example. I ended up having to keep a separate array of line lengths, it was a huge hack.
I really wanted to like QML. It gets lots of things right, but it's just so unfinished, and a few things are really weird, like ... I'm pretty sure object IDs sit in a global namespace and can be accessed by any component. A child component can access its parent, which just screams spaghetti.
And as far as I know there's still no way to have text in a custom widget. I wanted to make a QML graph widget. The lines are easy... but labels. The API for that is still private.
Another example: I wanted a log window, like a compilation log or something. There's only one QML widget for that and the only operations you can do on it are append(string) and remove(offset, length). You can't remove the first line of text for example. I ended up having to keep a separate array of line lengths, it was a huge hack.