Lorenzo Villani
Building a fullscreen, touch-first, menu-like HUD in QML might seem like an easy task. Integrating it with a Qt Widgets application, however, bring the difficulty to a whole new level.
What about turning the traditional context menu into a snazzy touch-enabled one? That’s a nice boss battle right there.
In this talk we’ll learn how to leverage QQuickWidget to overlay a Qt Quick scene over an existing Widgets-based window. We’ll discover what event transparency is, and the challenges that we had to overcome in order to turn a mouse-first UI into something usable with a touchscreen.