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The purpose of this example is to demonstrate the use of controller items, which are especially useful, when dealing with Qt Creator "Design" mode.

Note: methods described here were written for Qt Creator 4.

Read a documentation on Using Qt Creator in Design mode to see how to set up environment for this example.

In this example component Screen is intended to be edited in "Design" mode. This should look similar to the screenshot below.

Design mode

As one can observe CuteHMI.Modbus.CoilItem and CuteHMI.Modbus.HoldingRegisterItem are created as child items of respective Qt Quick controls, which they use as their delegates. Binding is established between controller and specified delegate property.

The example can be run with cutehmi.view.4 tool.

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Development status

Due to constant changes and unstable development of QML Designer, CuteHMI extensions may no longer be properly loaded in newer Qt Creator versions. Use of Qt 6 API may also affect (in the subtle ways) how extensions are being loaded by QML Puppet. QML Designer is successively being replaced by Qt Design Studio. Because of that newer versions of Qt Creator are no longer supported and methods described in this document may not work.

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