I'm trying and failing at something seemingly simple: define a simple text formatting component inline, then instantiate it multiple times with different text. Here's the code
Item {
.
.
.
Component {
id: favButtonLabelText
Text {
text: "Blah!"
color: StyleSingleton.xNavPrimaryText
font.family: StyleSingleton.xNavTextFont
font.pointSize: 28
}
}
.
.
.
Loader { sourceComponent: favButtonLabelText; text: "Diameter" }
At the Loader line, the text property is invalid. Attempts to define a property or alias on the component are rejected with "Component objects cannot declare new properties".
The only example I find in the docs, shows overriding the x
property of a Rectangle
defined in an inline component. It seem to me overriding the text
property of a Text
element is analogous.
How can I do this?
Since Loader
sets itself as the context object for the component it is loading, you could define a property in it and use it in the loaded Item
.
However, you have to use a property name not used by your item, otherwise it will be shadowed by your item's own property and there's no easy way to access a context property explicitly.
Component {
id: favButtonLabelText
Text {
text: foobar
}
}
Loader {
sourceComponent: favButtonLabelText
property string foobar: "Diameter"
}