Articles
Development towards KDE 4
The KDE developer Jes Hall, also known as Canllaith, has been running a series of articles showing the news in the latest KDE 3.5 development branch from SVN. Based on Qt 3, but still interesting, there are articles for
June,
July,
August and
October. For the reader interested in Qt 4 and KDE 4 there is an article about the
KDE 4 Buzz.
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Interview: Pier Luigi Fiorini
Pier Luigi Fiorini is the lead developer of Mockup. Mockup is an open source effort to create a modern desktop operating system. It is based on Linux 2.6 and supports native POSIX threading, hardware detection, automatic device creation and automatic network configuration.
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QQ: Issue 15 is out
Issue 15 of
Qt Quarterly has just been released for the non-subscribers. The articles are
Academic Solutions to Academic Problems ,
Data Models: SQL Table vs. Flat File and
Qt 4's Generic Algorithms . The first one is for everyone interested in the details surrounding Qt, signals and slots and inheritance. The second shows how to use different models and the last discusses the available generic algorithms.
The Signal Spy
In some situations it can be very helpful to be able to look at the signals sent and received from and to a widget. This is where the signal spying class comes in handy. It makes it possible to intercept the emitted signals with their arguments and makes understanding complex dependencies easier.
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A Zoomable Picture Viewer
A common scenario is to show a document in a scrollable, zoomable area. This article shows a quick solution that provides a scrollable, zoomable viewer for pictures. It makes sure that the image is centered when smaller than the available are, and that scrollbars are shown when needed.
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Getting Qt 4
Trolltech did not make it easy to find the installers for the GPLed Qt 4. This article provides direct links with tips and tricks.
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TT: Introducing Qt 4 - the C++ cross-platform application framework
A brief article describing the benefits of Qt 4 has been published along with the release of Qt 4.
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The Look of Qt 4 RC 1
As the first release candidate of Qt 4 has been released it
is time to take a good look at the examples and demos supplied
along the library and tools. This article consists of a range
of screenshots from the release candidate.
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Screenshots of Qt 4 and KDE 3.5
Matt Proud has built a development build of Qt 4 and KDE 3.5 and created two articles wish screenshots and brief descriptions of what is shown. The articles can be found here:
Qt 4 and
KDE 3.5.
QQ: Qt 4's New Style of Iterators
An older, but still relevant Qt Quarterly article discusses the new iterators in Qt 4. Both STL style iterating and Java style is supported.
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Follow up: The Current State of Designer
In the first article of this site, the new Designer was critisized. This follow-up article looks at the changes and improvements since the last article.
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QQ: The QStyle API in Qt 4
In Trolltech's programmer's newsletter Jasmin Blanchette delves into the the history and capabilites of the styling of Qt user interfaces.
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An Introduction to Qt 4 Beta 2
To introduce Qt 4, a simple dialog is created using the new Designer. The signals and slots are connected, the surrounding code is written and the changes from Qt 3 are discussed.
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Digitalfanatics.org also provides the Independent Qt Tutorial and the Qt Widget Gallery for your Qt 3 needs.