Adding Dynamics | Qt Creator Manual

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Qt Quick UI Forms ◦ Creating Animations

# Adding Dynamics

You can animate the properties of UI components and create connections between them to enable them to communicate with each other.

- Creating Animations

  You can use a timeline and keyframe based editor in the Timeline view to animate the properties of UI components. Animating properties enables their values to move through intermediate values at specified keyframes instead of immediately changing to the target value.

- Adding Connections

  You can create connections between the UI components and the application to enable them to communicate with each other. For example, how does the appearance of a button change on a mouse click and which action does the application need to perform in response to it.

  You can also create connections between UI components by binding their properties together. This way, when the value of a property changes in a parent component, it can be automatically changed in all the child components, for example.

- Adding States

  Qt Quick allows you to declare various UI states that describe how component properties change from a base state. Therefore, states can be a useful way of organizing your UI logic. You can associate transitions with items to define how their properties will animate when they change due to a state change.

- Editing PathView Properties

  You can use a graphical spline editor to specify PathView paths. A path view lays out data provided by data models on a Path.

Qt Quick UI Forms ◦ Creating Animations