Qt-interest Archive, February 2007
Qt4 knobs
Message 1 in thread
Hi there,
the knobs shipped with Qt4 (called QDial) are not very pretty. Is there some
library some where (not necessary included in Qt4) that gives a choice of
other prettier knobs?
Cheers
Nil
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Message 2 in thread
Hi,
> the knobs shipped with Qt4 (called QDial) are not very pretty. Is there
That's a matter of taste... What's so wrong with them?
> some library some where (not necessary included in Qt4) that gives a
> choice of other prettier knobs?
Try Qwt:
http://qwt.sourceforge.net/controlscreenshots.html
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Message 3 in thread
Hello,
I'm actually working on that task, too. With this appearance, the QDial
will never get a design award. IMHO, they do not really fit into the
styles. The styles slowly advance (windows style to XP Style for
example) but the dial seems to be a relict of a design which passed by a
long time ago. Probably in the late 20th century... Ok, maybe it is a
little bit exaggerated. ;-)
I see just one possibility to change their appearance and therefore I am
reimplementing a lot of them in my custom style. That is not as
grandiose as I would like, but hopefully it will be working soon.
I would appreciate some work on QDial, and, almost more important, its
handling in QStyle in a future QT version.
Regards, Clemens
Dimitri wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> the knobs shipped with Qt4 (called QDial) are not very pretty. Is there
>
> That's a matter of taste... What's so wrong with them?
>
>> some library some where (not necessary included in Qt4) that gives a
>> choice of other prettier knobs?
>
> Try Qwt:
> http://qwt.sourceforge.net/controlscreenshots.html
>
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Message 4 in thread
Would it be that easy to come up with a dial that worked for all
platform styles? I mean, X11 styles, windows, and OS X don't have a
dial. Probably cause it's "weird", and sliders are easier to use.
It's a good thing it's easy to write one anyway!
On 2/5/07, Clemens Clausen <clausecs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm actually working on that task, too. With this appearance, the QDial
> will never get a design award. IMHO, they do not really fit into the
> styles. The styles slowly advance (windows style to XP Style for
> example) but the dial seems to be a relict of a design which passed by a
> long time ago. Probably in the late 20th century... Ok, maybe it is a
> little bit exaggerated. ;-)
>
> I see just one possibility to change their appearance and therefore I am
> reimplementing a lot of them in my custom style. That is not as
> grandiose as I would like, but hopefully it will be working soon.
>
> I would appreciate some work on QDial, and, almost more important, its
> handling in QStyle in a future QT version.
>
> Regards, Clemens
>
> Dimitri wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >> the knobs shipped with Qt4 (called QDial) are not very pretty. Is there
> >
> > That's a matter of taste... What's so wrong with them?
> >
> >> some library some where (not necessary included in Qt4) that gives a
> >> choice of other prettier knobs?
> >
> > Try Qwt:
> > http://qwt.sourceforge.net/controlscreenshots.html
> >
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Message 5 in thread
Patrick Stinson wrote:
> Would it be that easy to come up with a dial that worked for all
> platform styles? I mean, X11 styles, windows, and OS X don't have a
> dial. Probably cause it's "weird", and sliders are easier to use.
Does it really hurt me, if X11 styles, windows and OS X don't have
dials? That is one reason why I'm on my own style... If I need them
something to do for me, I can still call the standard styles. :-P
>
> It's a good thing it's easy to write one anyway!
It is not as easy as styling other widgets, because of the present
QDial, I'm confined to similar geometries or have to implement some
calculation. But it seems to be working, I just have to correct the
movement of the needle ( former needle; in my case it is a knob).
Regards, Clemens
>
> On 2/5/07, Clemens Clausen <clausecs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm actually working on that task, too. With this appearance, the QDial
>> will never get a design award. IMHO, they do not really fit into the
>> styles. The styles slowly advance (windows style to XP Style for
>> example) but the dial seems to be a relict of a design which passed by a
>> long time ago. Probably in the late 20th century... Ok, maybe it is a
>> little bit exaggerated. ;-)
>>
>> I see just one possibility to change their appearance and therefore I am
>> reimplementing a lot of them in my custom style. That is not as
>> grandiose as I would like, but hopefully it will be working soon.
>>
>> I would appreciate some work on QDial, and, almost more important, its
>> handling in QStyle in a future QT version.
>>
>> Regards, Clemens
>>
>> Dimitri wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> >> the knobs shipped with Qt4 (called QDial) are not very pretty. Is
>> there
>> >
>> > That's a matter of taste... What's so wrong with them?
>> >
>> >> some library some where (not necessary included in Qt4) that gives a
>> >> choice of other prettier knobs?
>> >
>> > Try Qwt:
>> > http://qwt.sourceforge.net/controlscreenshots.html
>> >
>> > --
>> > Dimitri
>> >
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