Venus Gui QML - How to quickly view updates to QML

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neoneddy asked Aug 9, '21

Venus Gui QML - How to quickly view updates to QML

I have a web developer background and am digging into the QML files some. After I make changes I tried the

svc -d /service/gui

and

svc -u /service/gui

Commands to refresh the interface. So far a reboot has been the only way to see my changes. Any ideas?

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Answer 1 · 2021-08-10T02:09:07Z

Kevin Windrem answered · Aug 10, 2021 at 02:09 AM

I use killall gui to restart the GUI.

What you are doing should work and did in my test. Not sure why it's not working.

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jeroen ♦ commented · Feb 11, 2022 at 03:44 PM

for what it is worth svc -t /service/gui should also work.

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Answer 2 · 2021-08-10T04:49:54Z

neoneddy answered · Aug 10, 2021 at 04:49 AM

@Kevin Windrem thanks for the reply. I’m actually doing some work on guimods. You’ve done amazing work. I just want to try some refinement.

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Kevin Windrem commented · Aug 10, 2021 at 06:15 AM

Lots that can be done. Good luck and let me know what you come up with.

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neoneddy Kevin Windrem commented · Aug 10, 2021 at 03:02 PM

I'll push changes back .. I'm still a bit green on git, but I'll see what I can do.

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Answer 3 · 2022-02-03T08:49:54Z

pau1phi11ips answered · Feb 03, 2022 at 08:49 AM

I'm a web dev too and just about to start digging into this stuff. It would be cool to add other pages to Venus to control some of the other stuff in my van on the LAN.

Are you editing the QML files by hand or are you using a GUI editor for the layouts?

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Kevin Windrem commented · Feb 03, 2022 at 03:44 PM

I'm editing by hand. Debug is limited since there is no way to output messages from QML, at least that I've found.

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jeroen ♦ Kevin Windrem commented · Feb 11, 2022 at 02:14 PM

console.log() will do that. E.g.

Component.onCompleted: console.log("Completed Running!")

or you can add onSomethingChanged: console.log() for any property you want.

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neoneddy commented · Feb 10, 2022 at 02:53 AM

Yeah, I'm doing it by hand, QML / QT kind of has it's own CSS type settings for border radius, colors, etc.

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