Gallery QML PluginOverviewThe QML Gallery plugin contains features that can be used to search for and retrieve documents from the Document Gallery. Search FiltersSearching is performed by creating a filter based on a derived gallery filter class. This results in a set of Gallery QML elements for filtering. The Search parameters can be set by specifying property values which refer to the meta-data of the documents. For example, a meta-data key might be "author". Then, for example, by setting the filter property to "author" and the value to "torvalds" the filter is ready to enable a search for all documents authored by "torvalds". Available filters include
There is nothing to prevent the developer creating a number of filters. Then she could use either a GalleryFilterUnion or a GalleryFilterIntersection to find the result of OR-ing or AND-ing the criteria respectively to create a more complex search requirement. Gallery ItemDocumentGalleryItems are elements that are a means to request information about a single item from a gallery. The information may include monitoring the state of the request, reading the meta-data for the document or writing meta-data. When a request is made the status property contains the current status of the request including whether it is active or canceled. Progress of the request is available through the qreal (floating point number) item property progress. Query RequestsThe DocumentGalleryModel element is used to perform the requests on a document gallery. The following snippet of QML from the DocumentGalleryModel documentation is worth a closer look because it puts together several of the elements discussed in this overview. import QtMobility.gallery 1.1 ... model: DocumentGalleryModel { rootType: DocumentGallery.Image properties: ["url"] filter: GalleryWildcardFilter { property: "fileName"; value: "*.jpg"; } } ... Here we have a model using a DocumentGalleryQueryModel. Within Qt the term 'model' usually refers to the Model part of a variation on the Model-View-Controller design pattern. In essence it is a data-oriented part of the Gallery query object, what data types are part of this query. For a clearer understanding see the Qt documentation. Classes
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