I found a much nicer answer to this question, suggested in a presentation of the Qt Developer Days 2011 “Qt Quick Best Practices and Design Patterns”. They use default property alias … to alias the child items to any property of any item. If you don’t want to alias the children but give the alias … Read more
On a conceptual level, they go together very well. I’ve written a python/qml/js/opengl program that combines everything fairly nicely. That was with Qt4.7 and PySide. If you’re just using QML, you can minimise the amount of Qt you’ll need to be exposed to (though, as always, more knowledge makes you more powerful). Essentially, once you … Read more
QML is the name of the language (just like C++, which is another language…) QtQuick is a toolkit for QML, allowing to develop graphical interface in QML language (there are other toolkits for QML, some are graphical like Sailfish Silica or BlackBerry Cascade, and some are non-graphical like QBS which is a replacement for QMake/CMake/make…) … Read more
Qt Creator is Qt’s IDE. You don’t have to use it, but it greatly simplifies Qt development. Qt Designer is a graphical tool that lets you build QWidget GUIs. Qt Quick Designer is similar, but for building QML GUIs. Both are built in to Qt Creator. This is explained in a little more detail over … Read more
Note: In this answer, “Qt Widgets” refers to a Qt Widgets Application, selectable when creating a new Qt application. This is seven years after the question was first posted… but here’s my “objective” two cents to neutralise any developments since then. A Refresher Language Qt Quick projects use QML and JavaScript. The latter carries the … Read more