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SVG image provider for QML

Posted: 11th September 2011 by siraj in PlexyDesk General

I’m pleased to announce that Plexydesk now supports accessing  SVG elements from QML. So if you need to access an element with a SVG file, first you should define the size with “sourceSize.width” and  “sourceSize.height” , then provide the source URL as “image://plexydesk_svgprovider/background#center”.  “background” part of the URL is the file name, normally background.svg or [...]

Plexydesk Widget bling with GLSL

Posted: 22nd July 2011 by siraj in PlexyDesk General

For the last three years PLexyDesk was using CPU based animations for widgets, which is fine for most desktop use cases, but it doesn’t scale that great on netbooks and handsets. So we decided to use OpenGL, to do the animations and graphical effects, when it’s possible (when the hardware supports it). I have not [...]