Story: Qt UI scaffold
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This page documents a story in Sprint 01. It captures the goal, current status, acceptance criteria, and the tasks that compose it.
Goal
Bring a runnable Qt application into existence with the visual basics the rest of v0 will build on: an application window, a splash screen, a sensible layout, and a coherent icon set.
Status
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| State | DONE |
| Parent sprint | Sprint 01 |
| Now | Story closed; Qt shell builds, splash works, columns/rows tidied, icon set in. |
| Waiting on | None. |
| Next | None. |
| Last touched | 2024-07-28 |
Acceptance
- The Qt application launches and shows a main window.
- A splash screen appears during startup.
- Columns, rows, and tab behaviour follow Qt model/view conventions.
- An icon set is selected and embedded.
Tasks
| Task | State | Start | End | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Add a Qt hello world | DONE | 2024-06-22 | 2024-06-23 | Create a trivial Qt application that exercises the build pipeline end-to-end. |
| Add a splash screen to the application | DONE | 2024-06-23 | 2024-06-23 | Show a brief splash with the project logo during application startup. |
| Refactor Qt UI | DONE | 2024-07-13 | 2024-07-23 | Tidy the Qt UI — launcher, logging, column names, row sizes, tab opening, table sizing — before more widgets are added. |
Decisions
- Inherit-from-generated-code pattern
- chose Qt Creator's generated widget code and to subclass it for signals/slots, rather than hand-writing widget classes from scratch. The pattern is reused by every later widget.
- Remix icons
- chose Remix icon set for breadth and licence.
- Fast-track pattern for settings
- copy the FastTrack project's approach to embedded assets, themes, and remembered window state.
Out of scope
- Multiple themes (deferred; one theme to start).
- Docking widgets (deferred).
- Localisation.
- Wiring the UI to a network layer — that pivot comes in sprint 03's Client console and Qt integration, once cobalt is in place.
See also
- ores.qt — the component model this story stood up. The model/view pattern and FastTrack-derived settings hooks land here first and propagate to every later widget.
- Currencies end-to-end (this sprint) — the first widget that consumes the model/view pattern.