QML Tutorial 3 - States and Transitions

In this chapter, we make this example a little bit more dynamic by introducing states and transitions.

We want our text to move to the bottom of the screen, rotate and become red when clicked.

Here is the QML code:

 import QtQuick 2.0

 Rectangle {
     id: page
     width: 320; height: 480
     color: "lightgray"

     Text {
         id: helloText
         text: "Hello world!"
         y: 30
         anchors.horizontalCenter: page.horizontalCenter
         font.pointSize: 24; font.bold: true

         MouseArea { id: mouseArea; anchors.fill: parent }

         states: State {
             name: "down"; when: mouseArea.pressed == true
             PropertyChanges { target: helloText; y: 160; rotation: 180; color: "red" }
         }

         transitions: Transition {
             from: ""; to: "down"; reversible: true
             ParallelAnimation {
                 NumberAnimation { properties: "y,rotation"; duration: 500; easing.type: Easing.InOutQuad }
                 ColorAnimation { duration: 500 }
             }
         }
     }

     Grid {
         id: colorPicker
         x: 4; anchors.bottom: page.bottom; anchors.bottomMargin: 4
         rows: 2; columns: 3; spacing: 3

         Cell { cellColor: "red"; onClicked: helloText.color = cellColor }
         Cell { cellColor: "green"; onClicked: helloText.color = cellColor }
         Cell { cellColor: "blue"; onClicked: helloText.color = cellColor }
         Cell { cellColor: "yellow"; onClicked: helloText.color = cellColor }
         Cell { cellColor: "steelblue"; onClicked: helloText.color = cellColor }
         Cell { cellColor: "black"; onClicked: helloText.color = cellColor }
     }
 }

         states: State {
             name: "down"; when: mouseArea.pressed == true
             PropertyChanges { target: helloText; y: 160; rotation: 180; color: "red" }
         }

         transitions: Transition {
             from: ""; to: "down"; reversible: true
             ParallelAnimation {
                 NumberAnimation { properties: "y,rotation"; duration: 500; easing.type: Easing.InOutQuad }
                 ColorAnimation { duration: 500 }
             }
         }