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Qt comes with a nice tool for unit testing, called QTestLib. Inspired by QTestLib, I set out to create something similar that makes it easy to write tests in Qt Script. I’ve dubbed it QSTestLib. Hopefully you’ll find it useful for testing scripting APIs that your application exports. Grab QSTestLib here. The documentation is in […]

I love this application. Ariya Hidayat has made a really neat Qt application/widget that does the “cover flow” thing we all know and love(?) from iTunes. Paul showed me the video of it running on the nice Chumby device (courtesy of Jesper) . And I thought: How would that run on my HTC Touch?, this […]

Wouldn’t it be nice if your database could tell you that something it thinks you should know about just happened? For example that a record was inserted, modified or deleted from your favorite table. Well, some databases actually can and as of Qt 4.4 you may be able to take advantage of this in your […]

It all started as a small feature request – Adding style sheet support for Item views. I quickly found out that our default delegate, QItemDelegate, doesn’t use QStyle the way it is supposed to. Jens had faced the same problem when trying to provide native look and feel for Vista and ended up writing his […]

Feature freeze for 4.4 is closing in. The offices in the dev department are awfully quiet. A bit… too quiet. The snippety-snapping sound of brilliant minds tapping in code, merging changes, polishing APIs, writing tests, reviewing patches. An incredible atmosphere, you would have to just be there to sense it. This is the period of […]

Politics aside I’d like to summarize a bit what happened during the development of the Qt port of WebKit in the last weeks. I like technical details, so I’ll concentrate on those 🙂 Lars has worked like crazy to implement support for editing in the layout tests. That means we pass now a whole lot […]

As most of you know Espen went back to Oslo a few months ago after he helped out setting up the Berlin office. Since then, the Qt/WinCE project has been split up between Oslo and Berlin, which caused no problem at all due to modern communication ways like voice-over-ip, video-conferencing, Email, IRC and (place-your-favorite-protocol-here). But […]

Attention to details is ok, but compiler messages has historically not received it. Here’s an example of GCC’s output: qt/src/xml/query/expr/qcastingplatform.cpp: In member function ‘bool CastingPlatform::prepareCasting(): qt/src/xml/query/expr/qcastas.cpp:117: instantiated from here qt/src/xml/query/expr/qcastingplatform.cpp:85: error: no matching function for call to ‘locateCaster(int)’ qt/src/xml/query/expr/qcastingplatform.cpp:93: note: candidates are: locateCaster(const bool&) Typically compiler messages have been subject to crude printf approaches and […]

So the second and final installment of DevDays2007, namely DevDays 2007 II: Münich – Revenge of the Ratskeller is over. We all had a great time, and it was packed with over 500 attendees which made all of TT very happy. Here you see some of them during a lunch break: I’m happy with all […]

For a while now, I’ve been spending my non-bug-fixing time on the Qt Jambi AWT Bridge, an integration layer which will make it possible for you to place your favorite AWT and Swing component hierarchies inside your Qt windows and the other way around. This should hopefully prove to be at least a very convenient […]