asked 2017-07-07 16:21:14 +0300
I am interesting in porting an app written using the JUCE C++ framework to Sailfish. Are there any examples out there of people using different frameworks/languages to build Sailfish apps, and how they solved the issue of calling Qt/QML based native UI methods?
I think for Sailfish to be as accessible and future proof as possible, this would be important - e.g, building a Sailfish app using Rust.
answered 2017-07-22 12:23:03 +0300
@adamski: Check out this "A simple Rust GUI with QML" on this site: https://www.vandenoever.info/blog/2017/02/17/a-simple-rust-gui-with-qml.html Corvinux
answered 2017-07-07 20:38:50 +0300
It's quite "simple" (if you pass me the word), really.
SailfishOS runs on wayland, which means the (wayland) client (read : application) is responsible for rendering into a buffer provided by the Compositor itself.
I'd say (and these are my 2 cents), if the language you want to write the app in does support OpenGL, use that. It should be enough; of course you will need to manage input as well, so as long as you can hook on the /dev/input/?? devices you should be fine (assuming the language might even provide APIs for that). If the language does not have support for OpenGL, you need to write a wayland client for it (qt5-wayland I believe is the module used by QT and a good example to start with).
You'd need bindings into QML from your language; IIRC the stack would then be : QT -> QML -> #your_fav_language_here#
EDIT : i guess another option would be to only bind into the style objects of the qt/qml stack.
tortoisedoc ( 2017-07-08 09:28:37 +0300 )edit@adamski : google is your friend, but IIRC gtk and pascal should have qml bindings..
tortoisedoc ( 2017-07-10 20:09:22 +0300 )editAsked: 2017-07-07 16:21:14 +0300
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