December 3, 2010

2beers 2beers
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QML and frame rate

 

Hello everyone.
Is there any way I can see the frame rate of an QML applicaiton. I looked in QML viewer and didn’t find anything. if I create a c++ program and use QDeclarative, is there any way I can print the framerate?

Thanks

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December 3, 2010

blam blam
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Set the QML_SHOW_FRAMERATE to output the frame rate.

December 3, 2010

digitalsurgeon digitalsurge..
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like blam said already you need to set the QML_SHOW_FRAMERATE env variable

on linux for example:

export QML_SHOW_FRAMERATE=1

then run qmlviewer

December 3, 2010

moo1 moo1
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Does it affect to C++ app with QML, or it’s a qmlviewer feature?

December 4, 2010

QtK QtK
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In c++ app you can use, don’t know how to use it with the qmlviewer.exe

October 28, 2011

billouparis billouparis
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How can you display this framerate on a screen, in your QML Rectangle for instance, rather than in the terminal output? And can you use a timer to refresh the value only a certain amount of time by second to not sacrifice the refresh itself?

Thank you,
Bill

October 30, 2011

ZapB ZapB
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Grep the source code of Qt for QML_SHOW_FRAMERATE and see how it’s done there then replicate it yourself as I suspect it may use some private API (but I’ve not looked so I can’t be certain). Once you have calculated the framerate just expose it to QML like any other data by exposing it as a property on a QObject and calling QDeclarativeContext::setContextProperty().

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January 10, 2012

billouparis billouparis
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I grepped the source code and never found the QML_SHOW_FRAMERATE, is there something really tricky to do to simply get the FPS displayed in a QML application?
Any new help welcome!
Bill

January 10, 2012

ZapB ZapB
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A quick grep of the Qt source code shows it to be in:

  1. src/declarative/util/qdeclarativeview.cpp

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January 10, 2012

billouparis billouparis
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I realized I don’t have all source files apparently, so I did the following:

I finally overloaded the paintEvent method from the QDeclarativeView subclass QApplicationViewer as follows:

  1.  .h file
  2.     void paintEvent(QPaintEvent *event);
  3.     Q_INVOKABLE float getCurrentFPS ();
  4.     QTime m_time;
  5.     int m_frameCount;
  6.     float currentFPS;

  1.  .cpp file
  2. void QmlApplicationViewer::paintEvent(QPaintEvent *event)
  3.  {
  4.      //do nothing
  5.      if (m_frameCount == 0) {
  6.           m_time.start();
  7.      } else {
  8.          currentFPS =  m_time.elapsed() / float(m_frameCount);
  9.          //qDebug()<< "FPS is %f ms\n" << m_time.elapsed() / float(m_frameCount);
  10.      }
  11.      m_frameCount++;
  12.      //qDebug()<<"Frame n°"<<m_frameCount;
  13.  
  14.      QDeclarativeView::paintEvent(event);
  15.  }
  16. float QmlApplicationViewer::getCurrentFPS ()
  17.  {
  18.      return currentFPS;
  19.  }

Then I exposed the viewer itself to the qml in the main.cpp file

  1. int main(int argc, char *argv[])
  2. {
  3.  
  4.     QScopedPointer<QApplication> app(createApplication(argc, argv));
  5.     QScopedPointer<QmlApplicationViewer> viewer(QmlApplicationViewer::create());
  6.  
  7.  
  8.     viewer->rootContext()->setContextProperty("myViewer", viewer.data());

The qml file can be something like this:

  1. import QtQuick 1.0
  2.  
  3. Item {
  4.     id: firstApp
  5.     width:1024
  6.     height:768
  7.  
  8.     Image{
  9.         id: background
  10.         x:0
  11.         y:0
  12.         width:1024
  13.         height:768
  14.         source: "../../../Resources/BGTest.png"
  15.     }
  16.  
  17.     property string myText: ""
  18.     Rectangle {
  19.         x:10
  20.         y:40
  21.         width: 100
  22.         height: 100
  23.         color: "white"
  24.         Text {
  25.             x:10
  26.             y:40
  27.             font.pixelSize: 24
  28.             text: "FPS: "+myText
  29.             color: "black"
  30.         }
  31.     }
  32.  
  33.     Timer {
  34.         interval: 1000
  35.         running: true
  36.         repeat: true
  37.         onTriggered: {
  38.            
  39.             myText = myViewer.getCurrentFPS()
  40.         }
  41.     }
  42.  
  43.  
  44.     SequentialAnimation {
  45.         running: true
  46.         loops: Animation.Infinite
  47.  
  48.         NumberAnimation { target: background; property: "x"; to: 1024; duration: 2000 }
  49.         PauseAnimation { duration: 5000 }
  50.         NumberAnimation { target: background; property: "x"; to: 0; duration: 2000 }
  51.     }
  52.  
  53.  
  54. }

 
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