MCU-compatible Photoshop Bridge

What is the benefit? Why is this valuable?

Save time with imports of Photoshop designs for MCU projects

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What are common use cases?

Design team uses Photoshop and/or Illustrator, development team develops with Qt for MCUs

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Technical information

Currently, the QDS Photoshop bridge can produce QML code that is incompatible with QUL. When the active project is a Qt for MCUs project, the bridge should make sure that the generated code is compatible and optimized for QUL.

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The results of the initial spike to investigate issues with QDS bridges in MCU project is here: https://intranet.qt.io/display/QOM/Spike%3A+Investigate+and+list+issues+with+QDS+bridges+for+MCU+projects

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The QML code generated by the bridge must be optimized to be as small as possible (flash and RAM).

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To be done:

• Investigate and list current issues with the Photoshop bridge
• Study current architecture and implementation of the bridges
• Research a way to generate QML code in QDS that is fully compatible with QUL, possibly different than what is generated for Qt6.
• Implement the different import approach, which would ignore elements of the design that cannot be implemented in QUL, or implement it in a QUL-compatible way.
• If not initially, eventually, the MCU bridge should generate optimized QML code for MCUs
• Automated tests to verify that a set of Photoshop design cases produce valid QUL code (that compiles successfully)