Kexi/Plugins/Quickforms

Design page for task Add Qt Quick-based forms.

Started: piggz, Jan 2014
Status: experimental implementation exists in kexi/plugins/quickforms, kexi_quickform_piggz branch.
Wish #????

Introduction

Initial blog entry: [1]

Microsoft Access has powerful VBA forms allowing many tasks to be performed. Kexi forms are limited to data-bindings and macro execution. To have something as powerful as VBA it is preferential to not re-invent the wheel. QtQuick provides a extensible set of basic components, and a pwoerful scripting language that can be extended with application specific functionality.

QtQuick forms in Kexi will give us a powerful framework for allowing the user to build complex and fluid forms, backed by javascript scripting and kexi specific bindings.

Constraints:

Qt Quick-based forms do not replace QWidget-based forms but complement them.
They are not interchangeable and probably cannot be combined (except one can be opened using "open" action).

Use cases

Menu system/navigation
Data Entry
Data based application development using kexi locked-down mode

Requirements

We should build some kexi specific components to simplify building forms
Examples:
- KexiButton
- KexiField
We should provide bindings to control the Kexi instance (already mostly covered)
We should provide bindings to the current record data and record navigation functions
We could provide some file io functionality