New releases of the C++ language maintain incredibly strong backwards compatibility, making it easy to keep older C++ code working properly as standards march forward. C++11, C++14, and C++17 have transformed the C++ language in ways that make it as programmer-friendly as more recent languages but with many essential benefits that continue to make it […]
Author Archives: Don Tait
Clazy An open source Clang plugin allowing it to understand Qt semantics
Clazy is a Clang plugin which extends the compiler with over 50 warnings related to Qt best practices ranging from unneeded memory allocations to API misuse. It’s an opensource project spawned by KDAB’s R&D efforts for better C++ tooling. At KDAB, we have a pretty cool Continuous Integration infrastructure to take care of our customers’ […]
Hotspot A GUI for perf report
“I have also done some last minute performance improvements with the help of KDAB Hotspot/perf, and I must say that the days of profiling with weird/huge perf command line options are gone, awesome tool!” Hotspot is a KDAB R&D project to create a standalone GUI for performance data. It is a replacement for perf report. […]
An Unexpected C++ Journey Daniel Vrátil's informal debut at KDAB
Some of you may know that KDAB employees enjoy flexibility on working hours as well as location, and some choose to work from home, with the opportunity to share childcare, do part-time study or simply enjoy an out-of-the-way location. All that’s required is a decent bandwidth for KDAB work. About once a year, all of […]
KDAB at Qt World Summit 2017
This year Qt World Summit was held once more at the Berlin Congress Centre, in central Berlin and had over 1000 attendees – clear testimony to the growth of the Qt Community, as Qt enables our interfaces with the world in multiple areas, from medical to automotive, from gaming to industrial machinery, on desktop, mobile […]
Porting Applications to Qt - video presentation by Kevin Funk
KDAB has unique experience in porting the code base for toolkits like Qt 3, Qt 4, Motif, Java, Tcl, GTK, .NET, MFC, and Photon to Qt 5. Porting legacy GUI toolkits to Qt 5 is a job where proven experience saves a lot of time. In this presentation we highlight the main problems facing developers […]
Modernizing Legacy Systems Your 10 Step Guide to Software Migration - Matthias Kalle Dalheimer
Software migration is a lengthy process that sees hundreds of modules move from an obsolete framework to a much more preferable one. However, there are a number of pitfalls in a large porting effort that can significantly increase time, cost, and complexity, leading to risk of project derailment. Regardless of what your current system was […]
Qi (Quantitive Imaging Systems) – Solving Cancer with Qt 3D
Solving cancer is probably the biggest mystery that we see unravel in our life. This is a complex one because cancer is not a single disease, there are a myriad of aspects that need to be uncovered. Qi (Quantitive Imaging Systems) images biopsies from patients and then labels individual cells with over a hundred biomarkers. […]
KDAB, MyScript and Qt Company to create new, non-distractive input method for the Automotive Industry
KDAB will be partnering with MyScript and The Qt Company to incorporate MyScript’s handwriting input technology into the Qt Automotive Suite. This integration will enable multimodal input capabilities using either the existing Qt Virtual Keyboard or a new handwriting input panel powered by MyScript technology. KDAB’s Jan Arne Petersen demonstrated some of the potential of […]
Profiling QtQuick HMI Performance on Embedded Linux by Thomas McGuire
QtQuick is a popular choice for creating HMIs for embedded devices. The hardware on these devices is often constrained and less performant than their desktop equivalents, this requires extra care from software developers in delivering a fluid user experience. KDAB is regularly involved in improving the performance of QtQuick HMIs on such devices for their […]