Report from Qt Developer Days 2014 San Francisco
Report from Qt Developer Days 2014 San Francisco
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Medical Device Webinar Tomorrow (Thursday, Oct 9)
ICS is proud to promote our partner QNX Software Systems’ web seminar tomorrow (Thursday, Oct 9): “Simplifying the software integration &
Qt on QNX
When BlackBerry introduced its new Qt-based BlackBerry 10 platform for smart phones and tablets, it generated a lot of interest in Qt on mobil
Qt 5.4.0 Alpha is Out!
Representing a significant milestone towards the next Qt release, the alpha version of Qt 5.4.0 came out this week.
Alternatives for Virtual Keyboards
With touchscreen-based systems such as tablets, smart phones and embedded devices, there is often a need for a virtual or on-screen keyboard. Qt itself does not provide a virtual keyboard and I am often asked for recommendations on approaches for a virtual keyboard. Let's look at some of the options available.
Summer Grab Bag
To better support the embedded market, the Raspberry Pi Foundation now offers the Compute Module (3), a Raspberry Pi in a more flexible form factor intended for industrial applications.
What's New in Qt 5.3: QPrinterInfo
The Qt 5.3 release made a lot of "under the hood" improvements to the internals of the Qt printing system.
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
Retrocomputing: Motif and CDE
Introduction
Qt and OpenGL: Loading a 3D Model with Open Asset Import Library (Assimp)
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.
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
Building QtWebEngine
QtWebEngine (1) is a new web rendering engine that is planned to replace QtWebKit in Qt.
The BeagleBone Black - A Low-Cost Embedded Platform, Part 3
In part one of this series I introduced the Beag
What's New In Qt 5.2: QTimeZone
In this post, I will briefly describe a new class, QTimeZone (1), one of several that were introduced in Qt 5.2, and
The BeagleBone Black - A Low-Cost Embedded Platform, Part 2
In part one of this series I introduced the BeagleBone Black, a low-cost embedded computer platform that supports Qt. In this second blog post, I'll look at how to get Qt 4 up and running on this hardware.
KDE Frameworks 5 - Taking KArchive for a Test Drive
In this blog post, I present a tutorial on setting up and using one of the libraries from the new KDE Frameworks 5, a collection of add-ons to Qt.
Building Qt 5 on the Toradex T30
The Toradex Colibri T30 is an ARM development platform distributed by Toradex, a company in Switzerland that provides a number of ARM and Intel based development products. Their web site is here.
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.
What's New in Qt 5.2?
Qt 5.2.0 is now out! In this blog post, we'll look at some of the highlights of this new release.
Building Qt and QtWayland for Raspberry Pi
This document will explain how to build Qt 5.2.0 beta1 and QtWayland for Raspberry Pi.
Report on Qt Developer Days 2013 San Francisco
We've just returned from the Qt Developer Days San Francisco conference last week and I wanted to share a brief report on some of the highlights of the show.
Model/View With BlackBerry 10 Cascades
The Cascades framework lets you create UIs for the BlackBerry Application Platform with relative ease. This Qt based framework can be used to develop native applications for the BlackBerry 10 mobile platform. It supports development in C++ and/or QML.
Report on Qt Developer Days 2013 Berlin
This was the 10th annual Qt Developer Days. The conference is traditionally held in Europe and North America and this year the European show was at the Cafe Moskau in Berlin, the same location as last year.
The QML Presentation System
With Qt Developer Days 2013 rapidly approaching, a number of Qt developers are busy preparing presentations for the conference, myself included. I thought it would be timely to give an overview of the QML Presentation System.