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Some databases allow stored procedures and SQL batches to return multiple result sets. As some of you may have noticed Qt only allows you to access a single result set even when your query returns multiple, but as of Qt 4.4 this limitation will be history. The cause of this joy is the newborn QSqlQuery::nextResult() […]

As a relatively new Trolltech employee (this is my first post!), I was thrown into Qt’s printing framework, with the hopes of improving some of the long standing issues. One of the problems with printing using Qt today isn’t actually printing itself, but rather information about printers. The current framework is very opaque; typically a […]

This is just a sneak-peek of one of the demos for Widgets on Graphics View. 😀 And yes – those are real QDialogs btw.

Lots of goodness has been happening with the Open Document Format. Well, not the format itself, that has been an ISO standard for some time and that kind of implies it gets a bit boring. Fileformats being boring is, much like in governments, a good thing. Boring means stable. And we need a stable Foundation. […]

Last night I had a very interresting discussion in the pub about how we, as people, affect the world and how much of what we do actually makes this world a better place. While V. is more the person to go the the poor countries and help out there with nutrition and such basic-human-needs, I […]

Some time ago a question popped up on qt-jambi-interest about how Qt Jambi would work together with jython. The main problem was signals and slots as our string-based approach doesn’t map to well into the world of interpreted languages on top of Java. I sat down some time ago and got jython to work pretty […]

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 […]