Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 10:11
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By ICS Development Team
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OpenGL, Assimp, Qt, 3D
This blog post is the first in a series that will cover using OpenGL with Qt. In this installment, we will look at how to use Open Asset Import Library (Assimp) (1) to load 3D models from some common 3D model formats.
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Monday, September 16, 2013 - 09:34
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By ICS Development Team
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Qt, QML
The architecture of a Qt Quick application is the difference between pain and joy. A good architecture makes C++ and QML integration seem natural, while a poor and muddled architecture makes it an exercise in frustration.
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Friday, April 12, 2013 - 07:48
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By ICS Development Team
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Qt 5.0.0 introduced the QStandardPaths class. This expands on functionality that was in Qt 4 in the QDesktopServices class.
The QStandardPaths class provides methods for accessing standard paths on a system such as the location of the user's desktop directory or location of a program executable. The class provides only static methods, so it never needs to be instantiated as an object.
I wrote a small Qt-based graphical application that illustrates many of the features of the class. A screen shot is shown below.
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Friday, April 12, 2013 - 07:45
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By ICS Development Team
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Introduction
A quick trivia quiz:
Does Qt use multiple inheritance?
If so, how many public Qt classes use it?
Does any Qt class directly inherit from more than two classes?
Does Qt let you multiply inherit (directly or indirectly) from QObject?
If you can correctly answer these questions off the top of your head you're definitely a Qt and C++ guru and can stop reading now. If not, then by the end of this article you will be able to answer these questions and impress your colleagues with your knowledge.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 12:34
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By ICS Development Team
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Qt, PhoneGap
There was no blog posting last week because I was away for some vacation in a warm place.
This week work continued implementing the APIs for Accelerometer and Notification and using the Qt Simulator for testing.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 12:33
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By ICS Development Team
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Qt, Cordova, Raspberry Pi, PhoneGap
This week we finished implementing some Cordova APIs (at least for the Qt 4 version). Compass and Accelerometer are done and some of Events was implemented. Notification is done as is most of File support and we are starting work on Contacts and Camera.
Note that I am going to start consistently using the name Cordova rather than Callback orPhoneGap for this project.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 12:32
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By ICS Development Team
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Qt, QML, Raspberry Pi, Cordova
Since the last posting we properly set up deployment of Cordova Qt for MeeGo Harmattan (e.g. the Nokia N9 phone). We also got Qt 5 packages including WebKit built for MeeGo Harmattan and tested it on a Nokia N9. Incidently, a big PR1.2 software update rolled out this week for MeeGo Harmattan phones.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 12:31
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By ICS Development Team
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Qt, PhoneGap, Raspberry Pi, Cordova
Throughout this project one thing that has been constantly changing has been the source code repositories, both due to several project names changes and with the move to being run as an Apache project.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 12:31
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By ICS Development Team
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Qt, Mobile, Cordova
In the past week or so we commited some more code for Contacts and Notification. Camera support has been submitted as a pull request.
We are doing some testing on Symbian with a Nokia E7 phone as we haven't done much testing on Symbian up to now.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 12:30
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By ICS Development Team
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Qt, Raspberry Pi, Cordova
Work has been slowing down somewhat as Qt 5 has been firming up for release. The Qt 5 alpha came out on April 3rd and we tested our code with it. Work is moving ahead for a Qt 5 beta release and then the 5.0.0 final this summer.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 10:58
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By ICS Development Team
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One sometimes needs to store information in a temporary location. POSIX compliant platforms like Linux provide the tmpfile() library function to create a unique temporary file that is automatically deleted when it is closed or the program terminates. Qt provides an abstraction of this with the QTemporaryFile class.
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Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 13:56
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By ICS Development Team
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Raspberry Pi, Embedded
About three weeks ago, Nokia arranged for ICS to gain access to the Raspberry Pi board so that we could help with an exploratory open source effort to get Qt working on this platform. That is how I got my chance to hack some code for this amazing board. The idea was to get a bleeding edge version of Qt 5 to run and to experience first hand hardware accelerated QSceneGraph based QML. And indeed bleeding edge it is - but also blazing fast. Now, first things first:
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Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 13:54
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By ICS Development Team
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Raspberry Pi, Embedded
Here's a video of my colleague, Roland Krause, demonstrating Qt 5 + Raspberry Pi at Qt Dev Days in Munich. Stop by our booth in San Francisco next week to see it first hand...and for your chance to win one of your very own!
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Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 13:52
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By ICS Development Team
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Raspberry Pi
As part of the initiative to put Qt 5 on Raspberry Pi, ICS gave away over 70 Raspberry Pi boards to interested developers at Qt Developer Days last week. If you were one of the lucky winners, be on the lookout over the next few days for an email from ICS so you'll know how to go about receiving it once they are available. More details and a video demo are available here: Qt 5 + Raspberry Pi
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Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 13:51
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By ICS Development Team
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Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi folks report that the first batch of production boards is finally in production. The first 10,000 units should start becoming available around the end of this month.
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