Add a QtQuick test window #1196
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Due to many limitations of the QtWidgets GUI framework, I think we need to evaluate other options some day - of course QtQuick/QML would be the most obvious choice. I don't know whether we will ever use it or not, but we should at least do some serious evaluation. One of the potential problems might be the deployment and runtime issues since AFAIK it relies on OpenGL which we cannot bundle with LibrePCB. So my idea is to add QtQuick as an optional dependency to LibrePCB now to get some experience about it before the dependency may get mandatory some day.
For that, I just added a menu item Help -> QtQuick Test Window to the Control Panel which opens this window:
This allows us to easily check if it works properly on various platforms / operating systems and I think the menu item doesn't hurt for non-developers (it's only temporary anyway)...
In case the dependency causes troubles, I documented in the build instructions how to build without QtQuick:
https://developers.librepcb.org/_branches/add-qml-test-window/d5/d96/doc_building.html#autotoc_md12