View

Development status

Client, GUI application, which allows one to run CuteHMI project in a window.

By default this tool shows only a simple help screen.

Default view screenshot

CuteHMI approach is to treat each project as a first-class QML extension, so the purpose of the tool is to load specified extension and display one of its QML components. Any extension that provides graphical UI QML component can be loaded as cutehmi.view.4 project. Use command line argument to specify an extension.

For example to run Simple View example use following command.

cutehmi.view.4 CuteHMI.Examples.SimpleView.2

To run project from QtCreator click Projects -> Run. Select cutehmi.view.4 from Run configuration. In the Command line arguments box type: CuteHMI.Examples.SimpleView.2. The window should look similar to the screenshot below.

SimpleView screenshot

Default loader picks View as default QML component to load. Component can be specified with second positional argument. For example following displays RectangularElement component from the previous example.

cutehmi.view.4 CuteHMI.Examples.SimpleView.2 RectangularElement

One can also use --init option to replace default loader with custom one.

You can use --help command line argument to see a list of all possible command line options.

For debug builds use cutehmi.view.4.debug instead of cutehmi.view.4.

Changes

Compared to previous major version following changes were made.

• View looks for View component instead of Main.
• Extension is specified with first positional argument instead of --extension argument.
• Component is specified with second positional argument instead of --component argument.