Making changes to QML files without rebuilding the entire project?

[azzamsa]

Hi.

Every time I made changes to the *.qml files, I need to run cargo clean && cargo run. Otherwise, the changes don't appear. The build itself takes so long thus it slows my iterations.

Is there any way to make changes to *.qml without rebuilding the entire project?

[ahayzen-kdab]

This is a known issue with the cargo build route, see #469 . For now just touch /path/to/qml.qrc before you build and it'll work.

[ahayzen-kdab]

BTW, this should now be in 0.5.1, let us know if there are still issues!

[alex13sh]

You can download a qml file from the file system, not from qrc. Thus, changing the qml file will not cause the project to be rebuilt. This is convenient for prototyping.
To do this, you need to remove one line from build.rs
// .qrc("qml/qml.qrc")

And in main.rs specify the path to the qml file relative to the project directory

let root = env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR");
engine.load(&QUrl::from(&format!("{root}/qml/main.qml")))