Since I will be posting lot of Style sheets, I figured this is about the right time to point out that Qt 4.3 Designer has a built-in CSS Syntax validator and highlighter. Just right click on any widget and “Edit Stylesheet…”. (screenshot here.) Background Qt 4.3 introduces support for background images in any QAbstractScrollArea derivative. […]
There’s been a tremendous amount of action in the Qt Style Sheet world for 4.3. I have been extremely busy managing the release, but now with 4.3.0 out, I have all the time to blog about the Style Sheet features we have added for 4.3 . To start with, have you noticed Style Sheet documentation […]
We just released 4.3.0. The What’s new page gives a comprehensive list of new features in Qt 4.3. One of the things about the open development process we have at Trolltech is that it leaves no room for surprise . So sorry, there is not a single surprise feature that we have not blogged or […]
There we have it – A single source package that you can use to compile Qt on any platform. The zip package is for users who prefer Windows line endings in Qt source files. In contrast, the tar.gz package contains Unix line endings. The tar.bz2 packages are, ummm, a mistake (they will die shortly). The […]
Download the open source packages here. The Windows binary is now built with OpenSSL. The RC should compile in practically all platforms. If it doesn’t, please let us know (Either contact Support or send a mail to qt4-preview-feedback).
Open Source Open Source binaries are now available at ftp://ftp.troll.no/qt/source There have been a couple of reports of compilation failing with MinGW. You can solve this in two ways – Either upgrade your Win32 API headers to atleast 3.7 OR use the binary package which comes with a fix for the compilation. Note that you […]
We released Qt and Qtopia Core 4.3.0 beta source packages today. You can download them here. Binaries will be available by this friday. Note that the Open Source beta packages are now available under GPL. Space being limited, a lot of non-buzzword-compliant features got unceremoniously dropped from the What’s new page. So here is a […]
Whew, finally! Users of Qt/MinGW have been restricted to compiling and using Qt with the Windows shell cmd.exe. Compilation of Qt would fail even with the presence of the MSYS shell sh.exe in the PATH. This caveat, has over the years, resulted in very many user complaints including this, this, this, this, this and not […]
Thanks to some great work by Sam Magnuson, QSystemTrayIcon::showMessage() will support Growl on the mac in Qt 4.3. With this change, supportsMessages() no longer returns false on any of our desktop platforms. Here’s the obligatory screenshot: Note that the documentation for showMessage() states that messages are not guaranteed to be displayed. As a result, we […]
Lost in all the Qt 4.2 publicity for Widget Style Sheets and Graphics View is the auto completion framework which makes it easy to provide auto completions in just about any widget. The framework is really just one class – QCompleter. The completer provides support for three completion modes – Inline, Popup and Unfiltered Popup. […]