Question

I have created an application with a screen resolution of 640 x 360 for the nokia n8. It includes a lot of flickables, labels, etc. I want it to run on the nokia e6 with a resolution of 640 x 480.

Up to now I have simply copied the the QML file and modified it for the new resolution but it’s getting a little tiresome to do it for each update. I want to know if there is any simple way I can get it to automatically fit the output to any screen resolution? Or if there is something else I can do to simplify my task. I would prefer not to use anchors because it makes it too complicated to design the QML file.

Answer 1

How about using QApplication::desktop()->availableGeometry() to set the geometry of your application window?

From the docs:

QDesktopWidget::availableGeometry()

Returns the available geometry of the screen with index screen. What is available will be subrect of screenGeometry() based on what the platform decides is available (for example excludes the dock and menu bar on Mac OS X, or the task bar on Windows).

Addressing your comment below:

does it re size the entire screen

The const in QDesktopWidget::availableGeometry() const tells you that you can be pretty sure that the function doesn’t alter anything. You’ll need to do the resizing yourself.

Edit: The QML docs should give you the information you need to automatically change your application geometry. You could either change the geometry of the QML object from C++ or define your available screen geometry as a Q_PROPERTY and access it from QML. I’d recommend the former, as hooking up to the signal QDesktopWidget::workAreaResized might help you on mobile devices where your available geometery may change.