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.
Qt 4.8.1 also came out and we tested Cordova Qt with it. A 4.8.2 is expected in the next few weeks, indicating that Qt 4 is still actively being developed and is expected to do so for some time until Qt 5 is stable. Realistically I would expect many people to continue to use Qt 4 at least until Qt 5.1 is out, as some of the Qt Quick 2 C++ APIs will not be…
We've recently been running the Cordova tests and making some fixes to get them to run better. We've documented on the Wiki how to run the Cordova tests. See the section "Running Cordova Tests" at this wiki page. We hope to have a demo video up soon showing the tests running on the simulator and Nokia phones.
Incidently, the Qt Wiki recently moved from http://wiki.qt-project.org/ to http://qt-project.org/wiki/ The older Wiki will go away at some point.
We made a couple more videos showing a preliminary version of Wikipedia Mobile running on Cordova Qt. The…
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.
Qt 5.0.0 introduces a new QTemporaryDir class that can create a temporary directory. The directory name is guaranteed to be unique and gets created by the constructor and removed in the destructor. Typically you create a QTemporaryDir on the…
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 10:55
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By Jeff Tranter
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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.
I used the first edition of the book from 2006. There is a second edition that came out in 2008 but I didn't have a copy of it handy. The examples consist of about 60 qmake project files and approximately 14,000 lines of C++ code. The example code dates back to about 2006 and at the time Qt…