Qt Quick QML Digital Signage Demo Part 2

Following up on Qt Quick QML Digital Signage Demo Part 1, I’ve updated the digital signage demo to support the following:

• Play 5 videos in a loop
• Display 5 pictures in a loop where the picture is changed every 5 seconds
• Use a (twitter) RSS feed for the scrolling text

I initially planned to use QML to list the media files, but it is apparently not possible without using C/C++ and I may do it later on. So instead, I hard-coded the video and picture playlists in the QML files with the ListModel element. Videos are located in the video directory and pictures in the pic folder.

An index is needed to scroll thru the playlist, but QML does not support global variables, so I created a JavaScript file (globals.js) to store the video and picture index:

// Global variables in JavaScript file
var iVideoIndex = 0
var iPicIndex = 0

Then imported the script at the top of main.qml:

Now the code to play 5 videos in a loop looks like:

I only used Windows Media (wmv), WebM and Mpeg video, as it seems the AVI and MP4 video I used made the emulator crash.

The picture zone uses a 5 files list (pic/pic1.jpg to pic/pic5.jpg) with a 5 second timer:

In the code above, I had to switch parent.visible between false and true or the picture would not be updated.

In the scrolling text zone, I used cnxsoft twitter feed, retrieved it, parsed it and displayed it with QML XmlListModel and ListView:

Here’s what the Qt QML Digital Signage demo looks like when running in Qt Simulator (Nokia N900):

You can also download the source code (main.qml, ScrollingText.qml and global.js). You’ll need to create the video and pic directories in your project and add 5 videos and 5 pictures to test it.
The full QtQuick project is also available on Gitorious.

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