<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <!-- basictypes.qdoc --> <title>var QML Basic Type | Qt QML 5.12.6</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style/offline-simple.css" /> <script type="text/javascript"> document.getElementsByTagName("link").item(0).setAttribute("href", "style/offline.css"); // loading style sheet breaks anchors that were jumped to before // so force jumping to anchor again setTimeout(function() { var anchor = location.hash; // need to jump to different anchor first (e.g. none) location.hash = "#"; setTimeout(function() { location.hash = anchor; }, 0); }, 0); </script> </head> <body> <div class="header" id="qtdocheader"> <div class="main"> <div class="main-rounded"> <div class="navigationbar"> <table><tr> <td >Qt 5.12</td><td ><a href="qtqml-index.html">Qt QML</a></td><td ><a href="qtqml-qmlmodule.html">QML Types</a></td><td >var QML Basic Type</td></tr></table><table class="buildversion"><tr> <td id="buildversion" width="100%" align="right"><a href="qtqml-index.html">Qt 5.12.6 Reference Documentation</a></td> </tr></table> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="line"> <div class="content mainContent"> <div class="sidebar"> <div class="toc"> <h3><a name="toc">Contents</a></h3> <ul> <li class="level1"><a href="#change-notification-semantics">Change Notification Semantics</a></li> <li class="level1"><a href="#property-value-initialization-semantics">Property Value Initialization Semantics</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="sidebar-content" id="sidebar-content"></div></div> <h1 class="title">var QML Basic Type</h1> <span class="subtitle"></span> <!-- $$$var-description --> <div class="descr"> <a name="details"></a> <p>a generic property type.</p> <p>The <code>var</code> type is a generic property type that can refer to any data type.</p> <p>It is equivalent to a regular JavaScript variable. For example, var properties can store numbers, strings, objects, arrays and functions:</p> <pre class="qml"> </pre> <a name="change-notification-semantics"></a> <h2 id="change-notification-semantics">Change Notification Semantics</h2> <p>It is important to note that changes in regular properties of JavaScript objects assigned to a var property will <b>not</b> trigger updates of bindings that access them. The example below will display "The car has 4 wheels" as the change to the wheels property will not cause the reevaluation of the binding assigned to the "text" property:</p> <pre class="qml"> </pre> <p>If the onCompleted handler instead had <code>"car = new Object({wheels: 6})"</code> then the text would be updated to say "The car has 6 wheels", since the car property itself would be changed, which causes a change notification to be emitted.</p> <a name="property-value-initialization-semantics"></a> <h2 id="property-value-initialization-semantics">Property Value Initialization Semantics</h2> <p>The QML syntax defines that curly braces on the right-hand-side of a property value initialization assignment denote a binding assignment. This can be confusing when initializing a <code>var</code> property, as empty curly braces in JavaScript can denote either an expression block or an empty object declaration. If you wish to initialize a <code>var</code> property to an empty object value, you should wrap the curly braces in parentheses.</p> <p>For example:</p> <pre class="qml"> </pre> <p>In the previous example, the <code>first</code> property is bound to an empty expression, whose result is undefined. The <code>second</code> property is bound to an expression which contains a single, empty expression block ("{}"), which similarly has an undefined result. The <code>third</code> property is bound to an expression which is evaluated as an empty object declaration, and thus the property will be initialized with that empty object value.</p> <p>Similarly, a colon in JavaScript can be either an object property value assignment, or a code label. Thus, initializing a var property with an object declaration can also require parentheses:</p> <pre class="qml"> </pre> </div> <p><b>See also </b><a href="qtqml-typesystem-basictypes.html">QML Basic Types</a>.</p> <!-- @@@var --> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="footer"> <p> <acronym title="Copyright">©</acronym> 2019 The Qt Company Ltd. Documentation contributions included herein are the copyrights of their respective owners.<br/> The documentation provided herein is licensed under the terms of the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html">GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3</a> as published by the Free Software Foundation.<br/> Qt and respective logos are trademarks of The Qt Company Ltd. in Finland and/or other countries worldwide. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. </p> </div> </body> </html>