Qt Blog

I must admit, I’m not the best blog writer out there. I always find it fun to read the new entries on labs.trolltech.com than write a new one myself. I enjoy writing articles for Qt Quarterly more, then I have something that is crunchy and I can put it on a shelf and collect space. […]

I was on vacations last week but I’m being all jealous of my luggage. It got a free trip around the world. During my last 8 flights my luggage has been lost 5 times. Is that a record? Confetti anyone? It’s a celebration. If you’re going to meet me during any of the upcoming conferences […]

I wrote my first Jambi program today (That’s Qt for Java, btw). I admit to being one hard core C++ developer, but having nothing against Java as a language… as opposed to its horrible APIs. Which is also why I’ve shyed away from Qt Jambi, making little sarcastic remarks to those of my colleagues that […]

After the mega feature enhancements that we added to Style Sheet in 4.3, we have been getting an awful lot of support requests and mails asking for examples to do all sorts of stuff. As a direct consequence, I have added tons of new documentation. What’s cool is that there is a separate example for […]

The Qt D-Bus accessibility bridge is now at labs.trolltech.com. You can find the bridge, an introspection tool and a port of Dasher that shows how to manipulate text edits through D-Bus. If you find a widget that doesn’t expose enough information or behaves badly, please let us know.

One of Qt’s solutions is a class called QtSharedMemory. It lets you share and lock memory between two processes on the same system. Originally written for Qt3 and then ported to Qt4 I set aside some time and created the successors of this class which will be part of Qt 4.4. The locking capability found […]

No, this is not a wet dream — it’s all true; with Qt 4.4 you will be able to get rid of issues you have had with flickering. Just to make sure we are talking the same terminology, I’ve created a small movie demonstrating the problem: Given the fact that we’ve passed the 90’s, this […]

We just released 4.3.1, get it here. We try to do a patch release every 1.5 months or so. This time around, given that most developers disappeared for summer vacation, getting 4.3.1 out was quite a challenge. But there, we/2 did it 🙂 But really, this post is just an excuse to show the picture […]

Lars, Zack and I spent the last week making QtWebKit work on Windows. You may wonder why this is worth mentioning at all, since Apple released a WebKit based Safari for Windows not too long ago – and since QtWebKit uses Qt it shouldn’t require any changes at all to work on Windows, right? Indeed, […]

A week or two ago, Eskil wrote a blog about how he’d been working on mixing AWT and Qt together in the same window. At the time he’d gotten to the point where we could embed a Qt widget inside an AWT component. Now we’ve gotten a bit further… Based on the same approach we […]