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The following classes replace their equivalents in QtQuick 1: \list \o QSGView \o QSGCanvas \o QSGItem \o QSGPaintedItem \endlist \section2 QML Engine/Language Improvements JS engine changed to V8. Parser and compiler optimizations. New binding optimizer. ValueType improvements: - QColor is now a value type. The red, green, blue and alpha channels can be accessed via "r", "g", "b" and "a" properties - Improved support for QVector4D, now constructible in QML via Qt.vector4d() Arbitrary functionality may be provided in a namespace through a Module API. See \l{qmlRegisterModuleApi()} for more information. JavaScript (.js) files may now import QML modules and other JavaScript files. See \l{Importing One JavaScript File From Another} for more information. QML properties of type \c variant can now hold pixmaps. See \l{Scarce Resources in JavaScript} for more information QDeclarativeExpression can now be directly (and more efficiently) constructed from a QDeclarativeScriptString. \section2 Canvas Item The new \l Canvas item provides a HTML5 canvas like API, with some enhancements: 1) Supports 2 render targets: Canvas.Image and Canvas.FramebufferObject 2) Supports background thread rendering 3) Supports tiled canvas rendering The Canvas item supports most of the HTML5 context2d APIs, the API details please look at the canvas item documentation. \section2 Particle System The \l{QtQuick.Particles 2}{QtQuick.Particles} module contains elements that can be composed to form 2D particle system. \section2 Element API/Behavior Changes New \l SpriteImage element renders animated sprites and can transition between animations. It uses the \l Sprite element to represent each animation. MouseArea now propagates clicked, doubleClicked and pressAndHold differently to pressed. These will now be propagated to the highest-stacking-order enabled MouseArea which has a handler for them. You can still ignore these events in the handler to let them pass through. The Binding element can now be used as a value source, and will also restore any previously set binding when its \i when clause becomes false. Flickable: added dragging, draggingHorizontally and draggingVerically properties. Added topMargin, bottomMargin, leftMargin, rightMargin, xOrigin, yOrigin properties. Image has two new properties: horizontalAlignment and verticalAlignment. It also has a new value for fillMode (Image.Pad) that does not transform the image. Grid now has rowSpacing and columnSpacing properties. Positioners now have attached properties that can be used to determine a subitem's location within a container such as Column or Row: Positioner.index, Positioner.isFirstItem, Positioner.isLastItem. Loader improvements: - "active" property added to Loader, to allow delaying instantiation of a Loader element's item property - "setSource(JSObject)" method added to Loader to allow initial property values to be specified (similar to Component.createObject()) - now only emits the \c sourceChanged signal when the source is changed and the \c sourceComponentChanged signal when the sourceComponent is changed. It used to emit both signals when one of the properties was changed. Text improvements: - a \c onLineLaidOut handler is called for every line during the layout process. This gives the opportunity to position and resize a line as it is being laid out. - a \c doLayout method was added to trigger the layout from Javascript. - now automatically switch to StyledText instead of RichText if textFormat is set to AutoText. PathView now has a \c currentItem property ListView and GridView: - now have headerItem and footerItem properties (the instantiated header and footer items). - In RightToLeft layout the preferredHighlightBegin/End are now also reversed. ListView section.labelPositioning property added to allow keeping the current section label at the start and/or next section label at the end of the view. A new property type ("var") has been introduced which obsoletes "variant" properties in QML. Properties of this type are equivalent to regular JavaScript variables. See the documentation on \l{QML Basic Types} for more information about "var" properties. \section2 QtQuick 1 is now a separate library and module Writing C++ applications using QtQuick 1 specific API, i.e. QDeclarativeView or QDeclarativeItem requires adding the "qtquick1" module to the .pro file, e.g. QT += declarative qtquick1 QDeclarativeView and QDeclarativeItem headers are now in the QtQuick 1 module, i.e. #include #include "import QtQuick 1.0" loads the module dynamically. To deploy QtQuick 1 applications the library (lib/libQtQuick1*) and plugin (imports/QtQuick/) must be installed. \sa {What's New in Qt Quick 1}{What's New in Qt Quick 1} */