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Since we just released the Qt/WinCE Technology Preview and it has been quite some time since our last Qt/WinCE blog, I think it is time for another chapter on how our brave Qt framework is discovering the land of Windows CE. Those of you who downloaded Qt/WinCE and tested the technology preview might know that […]

I think Jesper has one answer to that here. He forgot to mention it was a Saturday night, though! And, yes, I’ll happily link to your on-topic blog. When there is a photo I’m in, looking reasonably cute, that helps 😉

For a while now we’ve been plagued with a side-effect of the module separation in Qt 4: some of the goodies are “downstream” from the module we’re developing code on. This is the case for XML: it’s been in its own module (QtXml) and we have been left with no good XML parsing class in […]

Traditionally when you wanted to map a file into memory on Unix this was done using mmap and on Windows with CreateFileMapping. Continuing the tradition of simple, consistent API’s, in 4.4 QFile will have two new functions: map() and unmap() that provide the ability to map files into memory. An quick example: QFile file(“foo”); file.open(QFile::ReadOnly); […]

As we plan to integrate WebKit into Qt 4.4 we have to choose a stable code base of WebKit. As Maciej announced on the webkit development list the trunk branch of WebKit is going to be merged with the feature branch and likely to more feature development in the future. Apple instead is going to […]

A nice feature of Mac OS X is that every text edit field has spell checking built in. Getting this for QTextEdit is possible with Qt today but is a bit involved since you have to write a few lines of code and interact with NSSpellChecker using Objective-C. So, to save people from having to […]

A while ago I blogged about the ongoing work to add support for complex text shaping to the Harfbuzz library. After we have ported Qt’s text shapers down to the Harfbuzz library level we worked on making Qt use them through the new interface. Now we have finally completed the porting for all supported platforms […]

The Qt Scribe framework is a quite advanced typographical framework that even a typesetting capable app like KWord has chosen as its main text layout engine. As you may know, I have been replacing the KWord text engine with the Qt scribe one for the upcoming KOffice2 release. Even before I joined Trolltech, I have […]

As Andreas already pointed out, we got lots of great feedback and suggestions from customers at Developers Days; thanks to everyone who participated and chatted with us. One question I got was “So, how do I use this QLALR thing?” As you might know, QLALR is a parser generator hosted on Trolltech Labs; just download […]

DevDays 2007 in Redwood City is just over and I think I can say with confidence: it was a great success. We released the Qt/WinCE Technology Preview among other things, and the talks, keynotes and BOFs all got good feedback from the conference participants. There were around 180-200 participants in total and they were such […]