QT 5.3 / QML: Resizable StackView depending on currentItem - qt

Question

I'm working on a QML StackView that starts with a list of items to select from. Once selected I want to transition _.push(...) to a input form which has larger dimensions than the initialItem.
The only way I have trial-and-errored my way into a situation that works is by making the form Item a nested borderless window.
Q1. A nested window can't be the right type of concept to use for this... right ? there must be another way to do it. What is the right way ?
Q2. My goal after this is to have a transition animation that grows or shrinks between stacks of different sizes. Advice that doesn't preclude that would be best.
code
Main.qml :
import QtQuick 2.3
import QtQuick.Controls 1.2
import QtQuick.Layouts 1.1
ApplicationWindow {
property int itemHeight: 30
property int cornerRadius : 5
visible: true
color: "transparent"
flags: Qt.FramelessWindowHint
ListModel {
id: searchFacets
ListElement {
title: "Topics"
page: "content/TopicSearch.qml"
}
// ListElement {
// title: "Domains"
// }
}
StackView {
id: stackView
focus: true
initialItem: SearchFacets {
id: facets
}
delegate: StackViewDelegate {
pushTransition: StackViewTransition {
PropertyAnimation {
target: enterItem
property: "opacity"
from: 0
to: 1
}
}
}
}
}
Initial Item:
import QtQuick 2.3
Item {
height : listView.count * itemHeight
ListView {
id: listView
model: searchFacets
anchors.fill: parent
focus: true
highlightFollowsCurrentItem: false
highlight: Rectangle {
width: parent.width
height: itemHeight
radius : cornerRadius
color: "green"
opacity: 0.5
z:2
x: listView.currentItem.x;
y: listView.currentItem.y
Behavior on y {
SpringAnimation {
spring: 60
damping: 1.0
}
}
}
delegate: Component {
Item {
width: parent.width
height : itemHeight
Rectangle {
anchors.fill: parent
color: "#212126"
radius: cornerRadius
z:0
border.width: 2
border.color : "white"
}
MouseArea {
id: mouseArea
anchors.fill: parent
hoverEnabled: true
onClicked: {
console.log("clicked index: " + index)
listView.currentIndex = index
// listView.forceActiveFocus()
stackView.push(Qt.resolvedUrl(page))
}
}
Text {
text: title
font.pixelSize: 24
font.bold: true
z:1
anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
color: "white"
antialiasing: true
}
}
}
}
}
Input Form:
import QtQuick 2.3
import QtQuick.Window 2.0
Item {
Window {
width: 400
height: 400
visible: true
flags: Qt.FramelessWindowHint
Rectangle {
anchors.fill: parent
visible: true
color: "red"
}
}
}

Answer 1

One possible solution is to update the size of the dimensions of the StackView in the click handler that causes the transition. I do not know if that causes any problems with animating the transition.
MouseArea {
id: mouseArea
anchors.fill: parent
hoverEnabled: true
onClicked: {
console.log("clicked index: " + index)
listView.currentIndex = index
var component = Qt.createComponent(page)
var res = component.createObject(stackView)
stackView.height = res.height
stackView.width = res.width
stackView.push(res)
}
}