Some Lesser Known Qt Tools and Commands - Part 1

Every Qt developer should be familiar with the common tools like qmake, Qt Designer and Assistant, but looking in your Qt installation's bin directory will reveal a few more programs there. In this and future blogs, we'll look at some of the lesser known Qt development tools.

Qt Bluetooth on the Raspberry Pi 3

Raspberry Pi 3 ships with on-board support for Bluetooth. Check out some of the example programs included in the Qt 5.7.0 release of Qt Bluetooth

It's Baaack! Qt Speech Returns for Qt 6.4.0 Release

The Qt Speech module was introduced in Qt 5.8.0. I made a blog post at that time (June 2017), looking at how it provided cross-platform support for text-to-speech. With the Qt 6.0.0 release, Qt Speech was one of the modules that were no longer available. In the upcoming Qt 6.4.0 release, it is again going to be part of 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 struggling to implement a user interface that doesn't map well into these basic elements. If so, the QML Canvas may be just the solution you are looking for.  In this post, we'll look at Canvas (1), a powerful and useful QML element that is part of Qt Quick.

Introduction