Porting to Harmattan (2)

To recap, the issues I had earlier were:
1) VKB stays visible once launched.
2) App stays in landscape mode.
3) After a few launches, an empty toolbar showed up along the bottom of the screen and stayed there afterwards.

For (3), I found out it was due to setting the QDeclarativeView to showMaximized() instead of showFullScreen().

For (1), I couldn't figure out why TextInput element is not working probably. I tried changing to manually handling the focus, but still saw the same issue happening. In the end, I decided to apply a dirty trick. I simply set closeSoftwareInputPanel () method of TextInput elements when user clicks outside the TextInput fields, and further calling the method again when exiting the setting menu. Even with this ugly patch, flicking action on Stockona still sometimes invokes the VKB for no reasons.... again, the root cause is a mystery to me for now.

For (2), I have tried wrapping the QML into Qt components. At first, I tried wrapping my main QML page into a Page element, then push it into PageStackWindow. For whatever reasons, it didn't work. I then found out about the Window element. The documentation says it can wrap any QtObject and although the doc suggests not to use it directly, I found it worked for me.

The last thing I did today was changing the control button height so it's easier to click on them instead of clicking to the symbol list below.

At the end of the day, I made some progress but I am unhappy that I have little idea about the root causes of the various issues. Hopefully the community will figure out some commonly-good practices when using Qt components, and also the Qt documentation for Nokia's Qt components will improve with time.


PS - One thing worth noting is I found out it was super easy to set up N950 to connect to QtSDK by WLAN. Just fire the "SDK connection tool," then enter all the information in QtSDK and the deployment to device just works afterall. It greatly sped up the development time! (N900 probably supports this as well, but I remember you need to install some MADDE-related packages... I'm glad those packages are built into N950 by default.)