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How To Install and Use QT Quick Extension Plug-In in Symbian

This document discusses how to create a Qt Quick extension plugin (DLL) and use it in a Qt Quick application on Symbian. It involves subclassing QDeclarativeExtensionPlugin, implementing the registerTypes method, exporting the class with Q_EXPORT_PLUGIN2, adding a qmldir file, creating a plugin .pro file, building a Qt Quick test application that imports the plugin, and deploying/testing on a Symbian device. An example plugin and test application are provided.

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How To Install and Use QT Quick Extension Plug-In in Symbian

This document discusses how to create a Qt Quick extension plugin (DLL) and use it in a Qt Quick application on Symbian. It involves subclassing QDeclarativeExtensionPlugin, implementing the registerTypes method, exporting the class with Q_EXPORT_PLUGIN2, adding a qmldir file, creating a plugin .pro file, building a Qt Quick test application that imports the plugin, and deploying/testing on a Symbian device. An example plugin and test application are provided.

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Contents
1 Introduction 2 How create Qt Quick plug-in 3 Plug-in .pro file 4 Creating a Qt Quick application 5 Testing in device 6 Example plug-in

Introduction
This article shows how to create a DLL (Qt Quick plug-in) with Qt SDK/Creator and then use it in a Qt Quick (QML) test application. Existing Qt example code (\declarative\cppextensions\plugins) has been used for this purpose.

How create Qt Quick plug-in


QML is an easier way to create good looking user interfaces. QML applications can use plug-ins where we can implement application logic as a DLL called QML extension plug-in. QDeclarativeExtensionPlugin is a plug-in interface that makes it possible to create QML extensions that can be loaded dynamically into QML applications. These extensions allow custom QML types to be made available to the QML engine. To create the extension plug-in we need to do the following: Subclass QDeclarativeExtensionPlugin Implement its registerTypes method Export the class by using Q_EXPORT_PLUGIN2() macro Q_EXPORT_PLUGIN2() macro should be used in the following way:
Q_EXPORT_PLUGIN2(qtqmltplugins, QExampleQmlPlugin);

Where qtqmltplugins is the plug-in name, corresponding to TARGET specified in plug-in .pro file and QExampleQmlPlugin is the class that is being exported. There should be exactly one occurrence of this macro in the source code for a Qt plug-in, and it should be used where the implementation is written rather than in a header file. A qmldir file, containing meta-data for the new module:
#<TypeName> [<InitialVersion>] <File> Clock 1.0 Clock.qml #plugin <Name> [<Path>] plugin qtqmltplugins

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Plug-in .pro file


TEMPLATE = lib CONFIG += qt plugin QT += declarative # Destination directory that is added to the installation path DESTDIR = com/nokia/TimeExample # Name of our plug-in TARGET = qtqmltplugins SOURCES += plugin.cpp # qdeclarativesources holds all the files needed by the plug-in qdeclarativesources.files += \ com/nokia/TimeExample/qmldir \ com/nokia/TimeExample/center.png \ com/nokia/TimeExample/clock.png \ com/nokia/TimeExample/Clock.qml \ com/nokia/TimeExample/hour.png \ com/nokia/TimeExample/minute.png qdeclarativesources.path += $$[QT_INSTALL_EXAMPLES]/declarative/plugins/com/nokia/TimeExample sources.files += plugins.pro plugin.cpp plugins.qml README sources.path += $$[QT_INSTALL_EXAMPLES]/declarative/plugins target.path += $$[QT_INSTALL_EXAMPLES]/declarative/plugins/com/nokia/TimeExample # List of resources that will be installed INSTALLS += qdeclarativesources target # On Symbian, define DEPLOYMENT to generate a SIS file with all the necessary files # The correct location to deploy plug-in files on Symbian is under /resource/qt/imports/ symbian { TARGET.EPOCALLOWDLLDATA = 1 pluginFiles.sources = $${TARGET}.dll $${qdeclarativesources.files} pluginFiles.path = $$QT_IMPORTS_BASE_DIR/$$DESTDIR DEPLOYMENT += pluginFiles }

Creating a Qt Quick application


We can use Qt Creator wizards to create a Qt Quick application (qtqmltpluginstest). Create an application by wizard and that will create a main.qml file. Wizards creates relatively big projects but we don't need to worry with those. We edit the main.qml file. Here are the contents of the file that uses Clock element from Qt plugins that we just created (qtqmltplugins)
import QtQuick 1.0 import com.nokia.TimeExample 1.0

Plug-in .pro file

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Clock { // this class is defined in QML (com/nokia/TimeExample/Clock.qml) width: 360 height: 360 Time { // this class is defined in C++ (plugin.cpp) id: time } hours: time.hour minutes: time.minute MouseArea { anchors.fill: parent onClicked: { Qt.quit(); } } }

Testing in device
These application can be tested easily with real devices by using AppTRK with a USB cable. Compile and deploy the qtqmltplugin by selecting "Deploy Project" and see that DLL has been really installed in the device. Next, compile and run qtqmltpluginstest to see a new QML UI element (Clock, defined in the plug-in) displayed on screen. If we touch anywhere in the UI, the application is closed.

Example plug-in
These examples are tested with Nokia N8 and Qt 4.7 File:Qtqmltplugins.zip File:Qtqmltpluginstest.zip

Creating a Qt Quick application

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