Positioners: allow distinguishing between implicit/explicit child size

In Qt Quick Controls 2, we plan on using positioners to layout an icon
next to text in a button, for example.

Consider the following example:

    AbstractButton {
       id: button
       text: "Button"
       contentItem: Row {
           Text {
               text: button.text
               width: parent.width
           }
       }
       background: Rectangle {
           radius: 5
           color: "lightsteelblue"
           opacity: button.pressed ? 1.0 : 0.8
       }
    }

In Qt Quick Controls 2, implicit size propagates "up" from the
delegates/building blocks to the control, whereas explicit size
propagates "down" from the control to the delegates/building blocks.
Providing a reasonable implicit size is important to make controls
behave well in layouts, etc., and the internal building blocks must
follow the size of the control to retain sensible looks when a control
is resized.

In the example above, contentItem needs to have a "natural" (implicit)
size representing the ideal fit of the content, but it needs to respect
the explicitly provided size from the control too.

With the current behavior, as the explicit width of the Row is 0, the
Text item (via the width binding) sets explicit width to 0, and Row
uses that explicit width rather than the implicit width, thus, Row here
will have an implicit width of 0, which is not what the control wants.

This patch:

- Allows subclasses of positioners to set
  QQuickBasePositionerPrivate::useImplicitSize to true in order to tell
  positioners to use implicit size rather than explicit size. This is
  not exposed as public API, as this behavior is typically not
  something desirable in the positioners themselves. For example,
  Row { Rectangle { width: 100; height: 100 } } would have an implicit
  size of 0, as Rectangle has no implicit size.
- Adds QQuickImplicitRow and QQuickImplicitGrid, which are private
  subclasses of their respective positioners that simply set
  useImplicitSize to true in their constructors.
- Exports the wrappers privately so that they can be registered by
  other modules as QML types.

Change-Id: Ie68aabd7fbf6c76375badf6e338f2f238f3fc392
Reviewed-by: J-P Nurmi <jpnurmi@qt.io>
Reviewed-by: Robin Burchell <robin.burchell@crimson.no>

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/quick/items/qquickpositioners_p.h b/src/quick/items/qquickpositioners_p.h
index 9ae7029d69..8dc0d90a2f 100644
--- a/src/quick/items/qquickpositioners_p.h
+++ b/src/quick/items/qquickpositioners_p.h
@@ -132,6 +132,11 @@ public:
 
     static QQuickPositionerAttached *qmlAttachedProperties(QObject *obj);
 
+    static QQuickBasePositionerPrivate* get(QQuickBasePositioner *positioner)
+    {
+        return positioner->d_func();
+    }
+
     void updateAttachedProperties(QQuickPositionerAttached *specificProperty = 0, QQuickItem *specificPropertyOwner = 0) const;
 
     qreal padding() const;
@@ -182,7 +187,7 @@ protected:
     virtual void doPositioning(QSizeF *contentSize)=0;
     virtual void reportConflictingAnchors()=0;
 
-    class PositionedItem
+    class Q_QUICK_PRIVATE_EXPORT PositionedItem
     {
     public :
         PositionedItem(QQuickItem *i);
@@ -227,7 +232,7 @@ private:
     Q_DECLARE_PRIVATE(QQuickBasePositioner)
 };
 
-class Q_AUTOTEST_EXPORT QQuickColumn : public QQuickBasePositioner
+class Q_QUICK_PRIVATE_EXPORT QQuickColumn : public QQuickBasePositioner
 {
     Q_OBJECT
 public:
@@ -241,7 +246,7 @@ private:
 };
 
 class QQuickRowPrivate;
-class Q_AUTOTEST_EXPORT QQuickRow: public QQuickBasePositioner
+class Q_QUICK_PRIVATE_EXPORT QQuickRow: public QQuickBasePositioner
 {
     Q_OBJECT
     Q_PROPERTY(Qt::LayoutDirection layoutDirection READ layoutDirection WRITE setLayoutDirection NOTIFY layoutDirectionChanged)
@@ -266,7 +271,7 @@ private:
 };
 
 class QQuickGridPrivate;
-class Q_AUTOTEST_EXPORT QQuickGrid : public QQuickBasePositioner
+class Q_QUICK_PRIVATE_EXPORT QQuickGrid : public QQuickBasePositioner
 {
     Q_OBJECT
     Q_PROPERTY(int rows READ rows WRITE setRows NOTIFY rowsChanged)
@@ -353,7 +358,7 @@ private:
 };
 
 class QQuickFlowPrivate;
-class Q_AUTOTEST_EXPORT QQuickFlow: public QQuickBasePositioner
+class Q_QUICK_PRIVATE_EXPORT QQuickFlow: public QQuickBasePositioner
 {
     Q_OBJECT
     Q_PROPERTY(Flow flow READ flow WRITE setFlow NOTIFY flowChanged)
@@ -386,6 +391,22 @@ private:
     Q_DECLARE_PRIVATE(QQuickFlow)
 };
 
+class Q_QUICK_PRIVATE_EXPORT QQuickImplicitRow : public QQuickRow
+{
+    Q_OBJECT
+
+public:
+    QQuickImplicitRow(QQuickItem *parent = nullptr);
+};
+
+class Q_QUICK_PRIVATE_EXPORT QQuickImplicitGrid : public QQuickGrid
+{
+    Q_OBJECT
+
+public:
+    QQuickImplicitGrid(QQuickItem *parent = nullptr);
+};
+
 
 QT_END_NAMESPACE
 
@@ -393,6 +414,8 @@ QML_DECLARE_TYPE(QQuickColumn)
 QML_DECLARE_TYPE(QQuickRow)
 QML_DECLARE_TYPE(QQuickGrid)
 QML_DECLARE_TYPE(QQuickFlow)
+QML_DECLARE_TYPE(QQuickImplicitRow)
+QML_DECLARE_TYPE(QQuickImplicitGrid)
 
 QML_DECLARE_TYPE(QQuickBasePositioner)
 QML_DECLARE_TYPEINFO(QQuickBasePositioner, QML_HAS_ATTACHED_PROPERTIES)