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/*!
    \page qtquickcontrols2-styles.html
    \title Styling Qt Quick Controls

    \section1 Available Styles

    Qt Quick Controls comes with a selection of styles.

    \section2 Basic Style

    \image qtquickcontrols2-basic-thumbnail.png
    The \l {Basic Style} is a simple and light-weight all-round style that offers
    the maximum performance for Qt Quick Controls.

    \section2 Fusion Style

    \image qtquickcontrols2-fusion-thumbnail.png
    The \l {Fusion Style} is a platform-agnostic style that offers a desktop-oriented
    look and feel for Qt Quick Controls.

    \section2 Imagine Style

    \image qtquickcontrols2-imagine-thumbnail.png
    The \l {Imagine Style} is based on image assets. The style comes with a default
    set of images which can easily be changed by providing a directory
    with images using a predefined naming convention.

    \section2 Material Style

    \image qtquickcontrols2-material-thumbnail.png
    The \l {Material Style} offers an appealing design based on the
    \l {https://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.html}
    {Google Material Design Guidelines}, but requires more system resources than
    the Basic style.

    \section2 Universal Style

    \image qtquickcontrols2-universal-thumbnail.png
    The \l {Universal Style} offers an appealing design based on the
    \l {https://dev.windows.com/design}{Microsoft Universal Design Guidelines},
    but requires more system resources than the Basic style.

    \section1 Using Styles in Qt Quick Controls

    There are two ways of using styles in Qt Quick Controls:
    run-time style selection and compile-time style selection.

    \section2 Compile-Time Style Selection

    Compile-time style selection involves using QML imports to specify the
    style. For example, to import the Material style:

    \qml
    import QtQuick.Controls.Material

    ApplicationWindow {
        // ...
    }
    \endqml

    Notice that QtQuick.Controls (which is responsible for run-time style
    selection) is not imported. The fallback style is specified by the qmldir
    of the style:

    \badcode
    module QtQuick.Controls.Material
    # ...
    import QtQuick.Controls.Basic auto
    \endcode

    The benefit of compile-time style selection is that the QtQuick.Controls plugin
    is not used and therefore does not need to be deployed with the application.

    Explicit imports are also necessary if your application is built
    \l {Static Builds}{statically}.

    \section2 Run-Time Style Selection

    Run-time style selection involves importing \c QtQuick.Controls:

    \qml
    import QtQuick.Controls
    \endqml

    The QtQuick.Controls plugin will import the style and fallback
    style that were set at runtime via one of the following approaches:

    \list
    \li \l[CPP]{QQuickStyle::setStyle()}
    \li The \c -style command line argument
    \li The \c QT_QUICK_CONTROLS_STYLE environment variable
    \li The \c qtquickcontrols2.conf configuration file
    \endlist

    The priority of these approaches follows the order they are listed,
    from highest to lowest. That is, using \c QQuickStyle to set the style will
    always take priority over using the command line argument, for example.

    The benefit of run-time style selection is that a single application binary
    can support multiple styles, meaning that the end user can choose which
    style to run the application with.

    \section3 Using QQuickStyle in C++

    \l[CPP]{QQuickStyle} provides C++ API for configuring a specific
    style. The following example runs a Qt Quick Controls application
    with the Material style:

    \code
    QQuickStyle::setStyle("Material");
    \endcode

    See the detailed description of \l[CPP]{QQuickStyle} for more
    details.

    \section3 Command line argument

    Passing a \c -style command line argument is the convenient way to test different
    styles. It takes precedence over the other methods listed below. The following
    example runs a Qt Quick Controls application with the Material style:

    \code
    ./app -style material
    \endcode

    \section3 Environment variable

    Setting the \c QT_QUICK_CONTROLS_STYLE environment variable can be used to set
    a system-wide style preference. It takes precedence over the configuration file
    mentioned below. The following example runs a Qt Quick Controls application with
    the Universal style:

    \code
    QT_QUICK_CONTROLS_STYLE=universal ./app
    \endcode

    See \l {Supported Environment Variables in Qt Quick Controls} for the full list
    of supported environment variables.

    \section3 Configuration file

    Qt Quick Controls support a special configuration file, \c :/qtquickcontrols2.conf,
    that is built into an application's resources.

    The configuration file can specify the preferred style (may be overridden by either
    of the methods described earlier) and certain style-specific attributes. The following
    example specifies that the preferred style is the Material style.

    \code
    [Controls]
    Style=Material
    \endcode

    See \l {Qt Quick Controls Configuration File} for more details about the
    configuration file.

    \section1 Related Information
    \list
    \li \l {Basic Style}
    \li \l {Fusion Style}
    \li \l {Imagine Style}
    \li \l {Material Style}
    \li \l {Universal Style}
    \li \l {Customizing Qt Quick Controls}
    \li \l {Using File Selectors with Qt Quick Controls}
    \li \l {Deploying Qt Quick Controls Applications}
    \li \l {Qt Quick Controls Configuration File}
    \li \l {Supported Environment Variables in Qt Quick Controls}
    \endlist
*/
