28.09.2020 
We are happy to let you know that the very first edition of Qt Desktop Days 2020 was a great success! Having pulled together the event at very short notice, we were delighted at the enthusiastic response from contributors and attendees alike. Over 500 registered attendees could enjoy five days of technical talks. The program shows […]
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Qt Widgets training – online (USA) March 2nd - 4th, 2021
Qt Widgets for the Desktop – Online, 3 days March 2nd to 4th 2021, 9am to 4pm CST, with Jim Albamont What you’ll learn The course covers Qt fundamentals, objects and widgets, Qt Creator and Designer, then takes you under the hood to learn about core classes, custom dialogs, layout management, painting, event handling, as […]
KDAB at QtDay 2020 November 20-21, Virtual
KDAB will be gold sponsors at QtDay Italy November 20-21st. The event is entirely focused on Qt and Qt-related technologies and has grown to be the biggest Qt event in the region. Presented below is the talk and workshop from KDAB Back to Basics: writing a model (Workshop) – Giuseppe D’Angelo Date/Time Tue Nov 17, […]
Introducing KDDockWidgets An advanced docking framework for Qt
KDDockWidgets is an effort by KDAB to provide an advanced docking system for Qt that QDockWidgets doesn't support. Features include: nesting dock widgets in a floating window, docking to any main window, tab bar with detachable tabs, inner customizable helper widgets.
Declarative Widgets adding Qt Widgets support to QML
Declarative Widgets is a QML plugin that adds Qt Widgets support to QML. This means we can now easily mix the power of QML with the comfort of a Widgets UI on desktop. Background Declarative Widgets was born out of a breakfast discussion about how awesome it would be to use QML to describe […]
Qt Input Method – Virtual Keyboard Implementing an out-of-process virtual keyboard for text input in Qt apps
In the last episode of this blog series we learned about the overall concepts of input methods in Qt, with a look behind the scenes to see how a key press event from the native windowing system travels through the Qt input stack until it appears on screen inside a QLineEdit. In that context, the input method […]
QtWidgets and QtQuick Controls – A Comparison
Kevin Krammer compares QtWidgets and QtQuick Controls.
From QtWidgets Legacy to QtQuick and beyond
Abstract: It is easier and easier to create a proper QtQuick application from scratch. But is it really that simple to bring existing code in the QtQuick structure? It can get especially challenging for a large project which collected C++ collected over more than 15 years. What can we do of all that code? Temptation […]