Jeff Tranter
Jeff Tranter is a longtime Qt Consulting Manager at ICS, recently retired. For nearly two decades, he oversaw architecture and high-level design of software systems, and managed global teams working on desktop and embedded applications. He has been published in Electronic Design magazine.
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Qt’s Approach to Input Validation: Masks and Validators Explained
Tuesday, September 9, 2025 - 14:55 "> • By Jeff Tranter, Chris Rizzitello • Qt
Learn how these powerful tools to help manage and validate user input to avoid errors and improve your app's UX.
Embedded Software Development is Hard. Avoid These Mistakes
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 - 12:53 "> • By Jeff Tranter • Qt, Embedded
Qt developers making the transition from desktop or mobile to embedded have a host of challenges to overcome.
ICS Will Offer Four Tactical Pre-Conference Training Courses
Thursday, September 1, 2016 - 16:57 "> • By Jeff Tranter • Qt, QML, UX, Qt World Summit
If you're attending the 2016 Qt World Summit in San Francisco, check out ICS' tactical training courses on October 18.
Questions & Answers from Qt for Beginners Part 5 - Ask the Experts
Friday, June 24, 2016 - 15:11 "> • By Jeff Tranter • Qt, QML
In QML, I have a Text item with wrapMode: Text.Wrap but the text isn't wrapping. What am I doing wrong?
Questions & Answers from Qt for Beginners Part 1 - Overview and Key Concepts
Wednesday, April 27, 2016 - 17:15 "> • By Jeff Tranter • Qt, QML
Questions and Answers from Qt for Beginners Part 1 - Overview and Key Concepts
Some Lesser Known Qt Tools and Commands - Part 2
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 - 14:50 "> • By Jeff Tranter • Qt, D-Bus
Continuing with our series of blog posts on some of the lesser known Qt commands, this time we will look at some tools related to Qt and D-Bus.
What's New in Qt 5: QMimeDatabase and QMimeType
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - 13:44 "> • By Jeff Tranter •
QMimeDatabase and QMimeType are new classes introduced in Qt 5. MIME, which stands for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, is an Internet standard for identifying file formats. The MIME standard was originally created to support attachment of files in e-mail messages. A good reference for MIME can be found here. The QMimeDatabase class returns information about the database of MIME types on a system. Instances of the QMimeType class describe the type of a file or data.
What's New in Qt 5: The QScreen Class
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - 13:41 "> • By Jeff Tranter •
QScreen is a new class introduced in Qt 5.0.0 that returns information about screen properties, where screen here refers to a display, such as a monitor or LCD panel. [Update: It was pointed out that Qt 4 has a class named QScreen. However, the QScreenclass in Qt 4 was entirely different from the one in Qt 5 with different APIs and used for a different purpose. So I really consider them to be different classes.]
PhoneGap for Qt 5 Project Kickoff
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 12:36 "> • By Jeff Tranter • Qt, PhoneGap
This week we kicked off the PhoneGap for Qt 5 project. The goal of the project is to develop a complete version of the PhoneGap open source mobile development framework for the Qt 5 platform.
A Week of Compiling
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 12:36 "> • By Jeff Tranter • Qt, PhoneGap
This week was a little slow as some people were away for the holidays. The new callback-qtimplementation by Viras got committed to github and we are now working with that version.
Another Name Change
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 12:35 "> • By Jeff Tranter • Qt, Raspberry Pi, PhoneGap, Cordova
PhoneGap, recently renamed to Apache Callback, is now being renamed as Apache Cordova.
Porting Desktop Applications from Qt 4 to Qt 5
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 10:55 "> • By Jeff Tranter •
Introduction Now that Qt 5.0.0 is officially out, as an experiment to gain more experience with porting desktop applications from Qt 4 to Qt 5, I tried porting the example applications that came with the book C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4 by Jasmin Blanchette and Mark Summerfield.
Raspberry Pi is Shipping
Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 13:50 "> • By Jeff Tranter • Raspberry Pi, Embedded
The Raspberry Pi boards are now shipping in volume from the distributors and unboxing videos are showing up all over the Internet. If you were one of the winners of a board from ICS you should have received an e-mail today with the details on how to redeem your voucher. If not, check your spam filter (we've had some reports of the e-mails being marked as spam).
Raspberry Pi at Qt Developer Days
Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 13:49 "> • By Jeff Tranter • Raspberry Pi
We had some coverage of the raspberry Pi and Qt at the recent Qt Developer Days in Santa Clara.