April 2018
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Qt Quick Designer
On the other hand, Qt Quick Designer saves GUI files in both .ui.qml and .qml formats. Qt Quick is a very different type of GUI system in terms of technological concept and development approach, which we will cover in Chapter 14, Qt Quick and QML. Instead of XML format, Qt Quick Designer saves its data in a declarative language similar to JavaScript called QML. QML not only allows the designer to customize their GUI in a CSS-like (Cascading Style Sheets) fashion, it also allows the programmer to write functional JavaScript within the QML file. As we mentioned earlier, .ui.qml is the file format used for visual decoration only while .qml contains application logic.
If you're doing a simple program using Qt Quick, you don't ...