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The Whole Shebang - Running QML Files Directly
A new feature in Qt version 5 is an executable program similar to qmlscene that can execute QML files.
Recap of the Qt Contributors Summit
The Qt Contributors Summit occurred June 10-11 in Berlin. Here is a quick summary of my impressions:
1) Unifying Qt
The QML Canvas Element
Perhaps you have been trying to do more with QML than just using the basic elements like rectangles, text and images, or maybe you have been strugg
What's New in Qt 5.2: QCommandLineParser
After several failed attempts in the past, thanks to the efforts of Qt and KDE developer David Faure, command line parsing support is now in Qt 5.2.0.
Using Self-Signed Certificates in Qt Code
This article will show how to create a self-signed SSL key for Apache and how the Qt code will use it.
Qt and C++11
With most C++ compilers now providing good support for the latest language standard, C++11, let's look at some of the new language features that are particularly useful for use in Qt programs.
The Qt 5 Multimedia QML Elements
Qt 5 introduced a new set of multimedia APIs. Both C++ and QML APIs are provided. In this blog post, I will give an overview of the QML APIs for multimedia.
Integrating C++ with QML
Qt Quick's QML language makes it easy to do a lot of things, especially fancy animated user interfaces. However, there are some things that either can't be done or are not really suitable for implementing in QML. As we'll see, Qt makes it quite easy to expose C++ code to QML. In this blog post I'll show an example of doing this with a small but functional application.
Qt Contributors Summit 2013 Recap
This year's Qt Contributors Summit was held in conjunction with KDE Akademy in Bilbao, Spain.
The Qt Graphical Effects Module
This blog posting gives an introduction to the Qt Graphical Effects module, which is available in Qt 5. As of Qt 5.1.
Building Qt 5 on Raspberry Pi
This is a HOW TO guide for building Qt 5 for the the Raspberry Pi, and building and deploying Qt 5 apps using Qt Creator.
Object Serialization and Persistence using QDataStream
This article will demonstrate how a user-defined class can use overloaded QDataStream operators for serialization and persistence.
An Introduction to Clang
In this blog post I will be writing about some of my experiences with clang.
What's new in Qt 5: QStandardPaths
Qt 5.0.0 introduced the QStandardPaths class.
What's New in Qt 5: QMimeDatabase and QMimeType
QMimeDatabase and QMimeType are new classes introduced in Qt 5.
What's New in Qt 5: The QScreen Class
QScreen is a new class introduced in Qt 5.0.0 that returns information about screen properties, where screen here refers to a
What's New in Qt 5: The QTemporaryDir Class
One sometimes needs to store information in a temporary location.
Porting Desktop Applications from Qt 4 to Qt 5
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
Testing Continues
We've recently been running the Cordova tests and making some fixes to get them to run better.
Qt 5 Alpha Out, Raspberry Pi Shipping
Work has been slowing down somewhat as Qt 5 has been firming up for release.
Qt 5 alpha release is imminent!
In the past week or so we commited some more code for Contacts and Notification. Camera support has been submitted as a pull request.
Odds 'n Ends
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.
Move to QML
Since the last posting we properly set up deployment of Cordova Qt for MeeGo Harmattan (e.g.
Corinthian Leather
This week we switched to the new repository. Some pull requests from the old repository had to be resubmitted. Changes were committed for :
Repos Moving
This week we finished implementing some Cordova APIs (at least for the Qt 4 version).
New Qt 5 / WebKit 2 WebView APIs
There was no blog posting last week because I was away for some vacation in a warm place.