Qml version of calendar

[khumnath]

pushed qml application of bikram date converter in branch qml. is this easy and light on system resource with this?
pre computed data is not used in qml. bikram date can have 1 day differences in some months(not tested well for available data). @wintersnowgod can you test how Qml app behaves on your system? git clone -b qml https://github.com/khumnath/nepdate.git and check readme file.

[wintersnowgod]

Hmm. The memory keeps on increasing when view calendar is pressed again and again.

Screencast_20250722_163741.webm

[wintersnowgod]

and i also have this in the terminal logs
qrc:/qt/qml/org/kde/breeze/ScrollView.qml:51:9: QML ScrollBar: Binding loop detected for property "y"

[khumnath]

recent commit should solve those errors

[wintersnowgod]

actually i experience the same even now with the latest commit. It increases like 12-20 mb memory use each time the view calendar window is opened and doesnot clear the memory even if the view calendar window is closed.
system: Arch linux, kde plasma 6.4, qt 6.9.1

[khumnath]

let me see how qml uses memory. i am just on it. have to check thoroughly.

[wintersnowgod]

Another suggestion

• currently if i enter a date out of range for the available date like 1999 BS - it does nothing. I suggest some sort of feedback like invalid date range or Only supports the date from --- to --- . or something like that...

[khumnath]

this is now limited by input area. actualy code calculates beyond this limit.

[khumnath]

ok let me put rectangle in month navigation

[khumnath]

commit 48113f4 should resolve year input limits and put border on month navigations. warning about setting module qrc:/qml/main.qml:24:5: QML Settings: The Settings type from Qt.labs.settings is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use the one from QtCore instead. is for future versions. let me see how to use QtCore settings in Qml.

[khumnath]

warning about setting module also solved. actually i found package qml6-module-qtcore in debian based repositories.
3be69f5

[khumnath]

seems your system is using different fonts so words are displayed incorrectly.

[khumnath]

It appears the display issues are due to misconfigured Devanagari fontconfig within your Linux distribution. The user's system font settings do not influence how applications render these fonts.

[khumnath]

fonts are clear in my system

[wintersnowgod]

yup. I think this calendar is really good. better than the current nepdate-calendar.
And about the broken fonts on my system, I didnt notice it at all 😱. Ill have to fix that. Thank you for noticing that 😅.

[khumnath]

I tried to make widget too in qml but is not easy like c++. need to create separate window for setting menu. instead i will try to replace calendar open logic from nepdate c++ widget.

[khumnath]

@wintersnowgod with commit 197ad27 i created widget too in Qml. tried before and left because of Qml uknown for me then and restarted yesterday and finalized. test how this works compared to c++ one. i have not gone through memory management for new added setting menu and tooltip.

[wintersnowgod]

while building on latest commit [f2384b5] using cmake .. && make i get following error on build .. using qmake6 && make works fine.

-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 15.1.1
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ - skipped
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD - Success
-- Found Threads: TRUE
-- Performing Test HAVE_STDATOMIC
-- Performing Test HAVE_STDATOMIC - Success
-- Found WrapAtomic: TRUE
-- Found OpenGL: /usr/lib/libOpenGL.so
-- Found WrapOpenGL: TRUE
-- Could NOT find WrapVulkanHeaders (missing: Vulkan_INCLUDE_DIR) 
-- Could NOT find WrapVulkanHeaders (missing: Vulkan_INCLUDE_DIR) 
-- Configuring done (0.7s)
-- Generating done (0.0s)
-- Build files have been written to: /home/rosl/Downloads/nepdate/build
[ 12%] Built target PancangaCalculator_qmlimportscan
[ 12%] Built target PancangaCalculator_autogen_timestamp_deps
[ 25%] Automatic MOC and UIC for target PancangaCalculator
[ 25%] Built target PancangaCalculator_autogen
[ 37%] Automatic RCC for resources.qrc
[ 50%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/PancangaCalculator.dir/PancangaCalculator_autogen/mocs_compilation.cpp.o
[ 62%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/PancangaCalculator.dir/main.cpp.o
[ 75%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/PancangaCalculator.dir/PancangaCalculator_autogen/EWIEGA46WW/qrc_resources.cpp.o
[ 87%] Linking CXX executable PancangaCalculator
/usr/bin/ld: CMakeFiles/PancangaCalculator.dir/main.cpp.o: in function `main':
main.cpp:(.text+0x204): undefined reference to `AutostartManager::AutostartManager(QObject*)'
/usr/bin/ld: CMakeFiles/PancangaCalculator.dir/main.cpp.o: in function `AutostartManager::~AutostartManager()':
main.cpp:(.text._ZN16AutostartManagerD2Ev[_ZN16AutostartManagerD5Ev]+0xf): undefined reference to `vtable for AutostartManager'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/PancangaCalculator.dir/build.make:165: PancangaCalculator] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:92: CMakeFiles/PancangaCalculator.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:91: all] Error 2

[wintersnowgod]

The memory did not go above 87 MB for me. so i guess its ok. As for the logo, its a bit misaligned with the text. not a big issue.

[wintersnowgod]

Is there a way to enable or disable the widget being on top of other windows just like the flag logo? sometimes it is better if it wasnt at the top of other windows.

[khumnath]

we can disable stay on top flag but if we need widget on top of taskbar disabling won't work. logo aligning can be fixed. i have not edited cmake to included new files in cmake file so cmake gives error.

[khumnath]

@wintersnowgod

Is there a way to enable or disable the widget being on top of other windows just like the flag logo? sometimes it is better if it wasnt at the top of other windows.

with commit 56b4885 we can disable or enable stay on top setting.

as per you mentioned before about taskbar icon of widget like X this should not display now. I want taskbar icon for calendar window but I did not found any document how to create Qml child window taskbar entry.

[khumnath]

still widget is not usable in wayland. window is not movable.

[khumnath]

@wintersnowgod I think we can replace main branch with qml branch. need more work for wayland on both versions. qml version is not tested for correct bikram days in a month. we can add precomputed data in javascript later. cpp project is somewhat cluttered because i was still learning then.

[wintersnowgod]

sounds great. i agree.

[khumnath]

@wintersnowgod i have replaced main with qml version . in x11 (xcb) app works great. added print button too in calendar. mentioned wayland limitations in readme file.

[khumnath]

hello @wintersnowgod what versoning scheme is good for this program? i tried before major . minor . patch style. now i released with major . minor only. i have refactored code from 1.0 (major changes). is this ok to skip minor versions and make next version directly 2.0 ? and later if minor changes occur we can put minor version like 2.1. alternately we can use calendar style versoning like 25.08.08 year.month.day or simply year.month.

[wintersnowgod]

I think it is fine to do major.minor style for main release. It can be later done major.minor.patch for some versions if necessary in the future for very small bug-fixes. calendar style is a bit weird in my personal opinion since it is not a traditional versioning for release builds and may confuse the user in my opinion.

[wintersnowgod]

bikram sambat and gregorian is not centered.

[khumnath]

with commit 0afee2d in qml-testing branch overlapping fixed

[wintersnowgod]

yes looks good. By the way i get this terminal log when i close the calendar window on wayland. It is not present on x11.
qrc:/qml/Settings.qml:370: ReferenceError: Panchanga is not defined

[khumnath]

with commit 98b1220 in testing-qml branch, that error not available Panchanga is solved. that was there because js file was not imported, i removed reference of that now. I’ve removed the "Open Calendar" button, now clicking the widget directly opens the calendar, on Wayland too. For now, I’ve disabled the tooltip on mouse hover in Wayland because it was displaying over widget at the bottom of the screen.

[khumnath]

should I merge testing-qml branch in main now? what do you think about calendar style of this branch?

[wintersnowgod]

I think the style is good and the Wayland click to open is a great feature addition. It should be okay to merge.

[khumnath]

Releasing every version feels burdensome. Is it possible to tag versions without publishing full releases? That way, we could reserve releases for major versions only.

[khumnath]

got it ! created tag. was simple. git tag 2.1.1 then git push origin .

[wintersnowgod]

I created a workflow to auto build and release the binary and using the commits between the previous tag and new tag as the release text on
git tag {tagname} and git push origin {tagname}
need to chmod +x the binary after downloading it though

name: Release

on:
  push:
    tags:
      - '*'

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Set up Python
        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
        with:
          python-version: '3.11'

      - name: Install Qt
        uses: jurplel/install-qt-action@v4
        with:
          version: '6.8.3'

      - name: Build Project with CMake
        run: |
          mkdir build
          cd build
          cmake ..
          make

      - name: Upload build artifact
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
        with:
          name: bikram-calendar
          path: ./build/bikram-calendar

  release:
    needs: build
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0  # Needed to get full git history for changelog

      - name: Generate changelog
        id: changelog
        run: |
            # Current tag that triggered the workflow
            CURR_TAG="${GITHUB_REF_NAME}"

            if [ "$(git tag --sort=-creatordate | wc -l)" -eq 1 ]; then
                # First release
                FIRST_COMMIT=$(git rev-list --max-parents=0 HEAD | sort | head -n 1)
                LOG=$(git log "$FIRST_COMMIT..$CURR_TAG" --reverse --pretty=format:"- %s (%h)")
            else
                # Later releases - commits since previous tag
                PREV_TAG=$(git tag --sort=-creatordate | sed -n 2p)
                LOG=$(git log "$PREV_TAG..$CURR_TAG" --reverse --pretty=format:"- %s (%h)")
            fi

            # Output to GitHub Actions
            {
                printf 'LOG<<EOF\n'
                printf '%s\n' "$LOG"
                printf 'EOF\n'
            } >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"

      - name: Download build artifact
        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
        with:
          name: bikram-calendar
          path: ./build

      - name: Create or Update Release
        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v1
        with:
          files: ./build/bikram-calendar
          tag_name: ${{ github.ref_name }}
          name: Release ${{ github.ref_name }}
          body: |
            Changes since last release:
            ${{ steps.changelog.outputs.LOG }}
        env:
            GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

[khumnath]

i have added this in actions.

[khumnath]

creating new discussion with closing this. #47