QML custom properties

Question

I'm having trouble defining a custom property in a QML item:

Item {
    property MovieTileItem data
    Text {
        text: "Some text"
    }
}

MovieTitleItem is an Item defined in a separate QML file :

import Qt 4.7

Item {
    property string title
    property string posterSource
}

The error I get is "Cannot assign object to property" pointing to the property declaration. Any ideas?

Solution 1

"Cannot assign object to property" because there is already such property as "data" (and it's read-only):

http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qml-item.html#data-prop

Solution 2

I believe, custom types can not be used as property types if they are not registered with qmlRegisterType(). Following may probably achieve what you are looking for

Item {
    data:Custom{}
    Text {
        text: "Some text"
    }
}

Comments

[Stu Mackellar]

This only applies to exported C++ types, not custom QML elements imported from another file.