Last night I arrived in Zürich for ZuriHac 2016 and, in the brief space between finding my way from the airport and falling asleep, released HsQML 0.3.4.1. You can download the latest release of this Haskell binding to the Qt Quick GUI framework from Hackage as usual.
This is purely a bug-fix release, fixing building with newer versions of Cabal (1.24, GHC 8) and Qt (5.7+). It also resolves some difficulties with building the library on MacOS and I've revised the MacOS install documentation with more information.
In other news, I've decommissioned the old Trac bug-tracker as I accidentally broke it some time ago during a server upgrade and failed to notice. I take this as a bad sign for its effectiveness, so please just e-mail me with any issues instead. I enjoy hearing from people trying to use the library and I always try to reply with assistance as quickly as possible, so don't be shy.
release-0.3.4.1 - 2016.07.21
* Added support for Cabal 1.24 API.
* Fixed linking shared builds against MacOS frameworks (needs Cabal 1.24+).
* Fixed building with Qt 5.7.
Friday, 22 July 2016
Friday, 26 February 2016
HsQML 0.3.4.0 released: Belated Automatic List Models
A couple of days ago I released HsQML 0.3.4.0, the long-awaited and much overdue next release of my GUI binding to the Qt Quick framework. You can download the latest release from Hackage as usual.
The major new addition in this release is the AutoListModel component, which you can import in your QML scripts from the HsQML.Model 1.0 namespace. This provides a way of creating QAbstractItemModels based on lists of items. This feature is some way off full support for creating custom models, but still a significant improvement over binding marshalled arrays to QML views directly. Namely, when the updating a list via the AutoListModel, it can generate item add, remove, and change events based on the differences between the old and new arrays. An direct array binding, on the other hand, would cause the entire model to be reset so that views lose their state, cannot animate changes, etc.
This is demonstrated by the hsqml-model1 sample program included in the latest release of the hsqml-demo-samples package and pictured below. Try running it and see how the view of blue squares at bottom animates when you change the model.
Basic reference documentation for the AutoListModel is included in the Hackage documentation. The topic demands some more exposition, and will be the topic of further blog posts with some more exciting sample programs in the works.
release-0.3.4.0 - 2016.02.24 * Added AutoListModel component. * Added functions for joining and killing engines. * Added functions to manipulate Qt's command-line arguments. * Added exception handler to callbacks. * Relaxed Cabal dependency constraint on 'filepath', 'tagged',
'transformers', and 'QuickCheck'. * Changed runEngineLoop to pass through command line arguments by
default. * Fixed class at same address as deleted class causing inaccessible
objects. * Fixed memory corruption bug prior to Qt 5.2 with workaround. * Fixed building with Fedora-style moc executable names (non-qtselect). * Fixed building GHCi objects with GHC 7.10. * Fixed missing strong reference on engine context objects. * Fixed missing include breaking compilation with Qt 5.0. * Fixed switch compiler warnings. * Fixed imports to support older GHCs.
The major new addition in this release is the AutoListModel component, which you can import in your QML scripts from the HsQML.Model 1.0 namespace. This provides a way of creating QAbstractItemModels based on lists of items. This feature is some way off full support for creating custom models, but still a significant improvement over binding marshalled arrays to QML views directly. Namely, when the updating a list via the AutoListModel, it can generate item add, remove, and change events based on the differences between the old and new arrays. An direct array binding, on the other hand, would cause the entire model to be reset so that views lose their state, cannot animate changes, etc.
This is demonstrated by the hsqml-model1 sample program included in the latest release of the hsqml-demo-samples package and pictured below. Try running it and see how the view of blue squares at bottom animates when you change the model.
Basic reference documentation for the AutoListModel is included in the Hackage documentation. The topic demands some more exposition, and will be the topic of further blog posts with some more exciting sample programs in the works.
release-0.3.4.0 - 2016.02.24 * Added AutoListModel component. * Added functions for joining and killing engines. * Added functions to manipulate Qt's command-line arguments. * Added exception handler to callbacks. * Relaxed Cabal dependency constraint on 'filepath', 'tagged',
'transformers', and 'QuickCheck'. * Changed runEngineLoop to pass through command line arguments by
default. * Fixed class at same address as deleted class causing inaccessible
objects. * Fixed memory corruption bug prior to Qt 5.2 with workaround. * Fixed building with Fedora-style moc executable names (non-qtselect). * Fixed building GHCi objects with GHC 7.10. * Fixed missing strong reference on engine context objects. * Fixed missing include breaking compilation with Qt 5.0. * Fixed switch compiler warnings. * Fixed imports to support older GHCs.
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