[HN Gopher] Show HN: I built a cute, little isometric block stac...
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       Show HN: I built a cute, little isometric block stacking editor in
       QML
        
       Author : wuschelhase
       Score  : 94 points
       Date   : 2021-02-24 10:23 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.kdab.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.kdab.com)
        
       | ThePhysicist wrote:
       | Great app! I have some experience with QT (mostly via
       | Python/PyQT) but I want to get started with QML for a new app
       | idea, so this example codebase will come in very handy. Any other
       | resources you can recommend to get started with that?
        
         | ognarb wrote:
         | The KDAB tutorial video that wuschelhase recommended is great.
         | 
         | There is also the qmlbook: https://qmlbook.github.io/ that
         | provides all the information you want to know about QML.
         | 
         | We (KDE) recently published a small tutorial about the Kirigami
         | (our QML based convergent tooltip):
         | https://develop.kde.org/docs/kirigami/. And generally taking a
         | look at Plasma Mobile applications is a great learning
         | resource.
        
           | ThePhysicist wrote:
           | Awesome! Would you say that QML is mostly interesting for
           | mobile/convergent apps or is it something that you'd use for
           | a normal desktop app as well?
        
             | ldiracdelta wrote:
             | I think it does well on desktop too. I deploy my app to
             | Windows, Raspberry Pi, and Android. My initial testing of
             | new features is all desktop, running on my Ubuntu dev
             | machine, and I find it pretty reasonable.
        
         | wuschelhase wrote:
         | OP here, We did/do professional trainings for QML for quite
         | some time, but now that the technology is already around, we
         | decided to publish our Basic QML Training as a video series on
         | Youtube, together with excercises and all. You will find all
         | videos at
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxyTkXLbcV4&list=PL6CJYn40gN...
         | 
         | Hope it helps and you reach your goals! :)
        
       | SMFloris wrote:
       | Hah! Brings back old memories. I actually did something similar
       | for an RPG I was trying to create from scratch using Qt3D (back
       | in the day when it first came out and was getting stable, QT 5.8
       | maybe).
       | 
       | Had the whole isometric world down and used qml to script
       | monsters and abilities.
       | 
       | Great and fun experience, thanks for sharing!
        
         | ognarb wrote:
         | This sounds like a fun project? Did you publish your source
         | code somewhere?
        
       | wuschelhase wrote:
       | Already somewhat old, but still cute. I hope it brings you joy :)
        
         | AnthonBerg wrote:
         | It does! The inspiration threads itself through the unkempt
         | sideproject garden.
        
       | LeSaucy wrote:
       | Hot take: QML is criminally underrated/underused/unknown in the
       | industry.
        
         | ampdepolymerase wrote:
         | More like binding to C++ is difficult, lack of free non-
         | copyleft implementations, and general lack of advantages over
         | Flutter/Electron. After all, Embarcadero Delphi is also very
         | powerful and easy to use but nobody uses them for good reasons.
        
         | mpfundstein wrote:
         | qml is by far the best way to create frontends. its just so
         | good.
        
           | gjvnq wrote:
           | What makes QML so good?
        
             | mpfundstein wrote:
             | good question. i think its precisely the right mix of
             | declarative UI definition and enough freedom for.procedural
             | js
        
       | lgeorget wrote:
       | The title is on point, that's cute! And elegantly done, too.
       | That's a nice QML tutorial, thank you.
        
       | moxvallix wrote:
       | Haha, just got the title pun. QT and Cute.
        
       | makach wrote:
       | It made me happy to read that you had fun making this and that it
       | made you happy.
       | 
       | That is what it is all about! Too often we forget to have fun.
        
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