This month saw the release of the Qt5 Alpha 1, an important milestone on the Qt Project’s roadmap for the next generation of its world class C++ framework. KDAB is proud to be part of these ongoing development efforts to which KDAB engineers have contributed significantly, mostly in the area of platform integration but also to core library infrastructure.
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Forthcoming Qt Training in French
Back in November 2011 KDAB France conducted their first open-enrollment* training in French. The feedback was overwhelming, so we are thrilled to announce that the next training will take place in Paris, from May 21st to May 25th.
Qt5 on the QNX operating system
KDAB is very excited to see that Qt will form a key role on the BlackBerry platform and future versions of the QNX operating system. The BlackBerry and QNX platforms are now first class citizens in the Qt ecosystem. Work continues at pace to ensure that Qt5 will provide an exceptional experience for both the developers and end-users of Qt on BlackBerry and QNX with tight integration to platform services and tooling, including the Qt Creator IDE.
Setting up Kinect for programming in Linux
The ’90′s and the early 2000′s were the era of the computer mouse. The late 2000′s and the early 2010′s are the era of swipe and touch interaction. The next era might very well be the era of touch free user interfaces. As a consulting company we obviously always need to be at the frontier of new development, and we therefore had one of our software engineers, Benoit Dumas, research how to use Kinect* (which you may know from the XBox 360) together with a Qt user interface.
KDAB welcomes three new KDABians
We welcome software engineer, Guiseppe D’Angelo, to the company. Guiseppe is an active contributor to Qt5 and is a Qt Approver. He is also an active member and moderator of the Qt Developer Network (you may already know him as ‘peppe’ on irc). Guiseppe, originally from Italy, is now based in the London area.
Squish Tip: Interacting with menus and menu items
This month’s Squish Tip comes from one of our Squish experts, Tobias Nätterlund. The article shows how to make interacting with menus easily scriptable, without having to include each menu object into Squish’s object map. The example implementation supports interacting with menus, sub-menus and menu items on any depth in a menu structure.
Meet KDAB at RTS Embedded Systems in Paris
KDAB will be exhibiting at this year’s RTS Embedded Systems at Porte de Versailles, Paris, from April 3rd to 5th. Our team will be running demos of Qt and OpenGL on an Archos tablet; medical software on an Ultratronic demonstrator for an embedded medical device; Kontact Touch running on a Nokia N9; a BeagleBoard running Qt 4.8 QML demos on WinCE; a Blackberry Playbook running Qt demos on QNX; and Lindauer weaving machine UI running on a WeTab. We will also be demoing our popular GammaRay software for examining the internals of a Qt application. Read More
New KDAB Qt Trainings for Embedded Developers
KDAB is proud to introduce a new set of training sessions for application developers targeting embedded platforms and Embedded Linux in particular. Updated for the brand new Qt 4.8 series, these trainings focus on Qt Quick and offer additional topics relevant to developers working on embedded platforms, with demos and labs executed on an ARM Embedded Linux device.
KDAB contributes to Qt Creator via Open Governance
KDAB developers use Qt Creator on their own projects and it is the IDE of choice for KDAB’s Qt training courses.KDAB has already contributed to Qt Creator in the past and is continuing this effort within the Qt Open Governance system. The next release, Qt Creator 2.5, will contain some features we are now using daily, also, for more adventurous users, there are two new plugins now available on qt-project:
Windows Embedded Compact 7 platform support for Qt 5
At KDAB, we believe that Qt’s Open Governance model is a great way to ensure Qt will continue to thrive and be sustainably developed and maintained without relying on any individual stakeholder, no matter how committed. This model can only work if all those who have a strong commitment to Qt do their part and contribute to its continued success. When it does work, it provides the opportunity for more particular interests and platforms to be supported and catered to.
