In a previous blog we demonstrated the most straightforward method to optimize Visual Studio Code for a Qt / C++ environment: simply let the tools do all the work! The example GitHub project we discussed automatically installs both the Microsoft C/C++ and clangd extensions into VS Code. You might wonder why you need both C++ […]
Author Archives: Sérgio Martins
Qt for VS Code, the TL;DR version Using VS Code IDE to work on Qt project
Our colleague Alessandro Ambrosano created a series of blogs (parts 1, 2, and 3) that explain how to get Visual Studio Code configured for Qt development. In that series, Alessandro covers all the details you need to get your VS Code environment configured exactly the way you want it. But there’s a lot there to […]
The Power of CMake Presets
CMake 3.19 was officially released a couple of months ago, and one of the biggest – and most exciting – new features is the addition of presets. What are presets, you might ask, and why should we be excited about them? Presets are a bunch of pre-set CMake options that enable developers to ensure that […]
KDDockWidgets v1.1 has been released! An advanced docking system for Qt
KDDockWidgets v1.1 is now available! Although I just wrote about v1.0 last month, the 1.1 release still managed to get a few big features. Here’s the ChangeLog: Auto-hide/SideBar support This was much awaited and probably the last essential feature that was missing. You can now set a dock widget to auto-hide to a side bar. […]
KDDockWidgets 1.0 has been released! An advanced docking system for Qt
The KDDockWidgets 1.0 release is now available! What is KDDockWidgets? KDDockWidgets is an advanced docking system for Qt, with features that are not available in QDockWidget. See our first blog post, for a quick introduction and the motivation for a new docking framework. What’s new in 1.0? We’ve come a long way since the initial […]
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.
Clazy 1.5 released
Clazy 1.5 is now available. This is a small release, mainly focused on bug fixing. Clazy is a clang compiler plugin which emits warnings related to Qt best practices. We’ll be showing Clazy at Embedded World, Nuremberg, Febr 26-28, where we are a main Qt partner. You can read more about it in our previous […]
qsslint – A linter for Qt stylesheets A new KDAB contribution
Enter the wonderful world of tools for which the announcement blog takes more time to write than the tool itself. qsslint is a small command-line utility for verifying the syntax of your Qt stylesheet files (*.qss). It’s much like KDAB’s previous linter contribution, qmllint. It simply returns 0 if the stylesheet is valid, and non-zero […]
Clazy 1.4 released presenting 10 new Qt compile-time checks
Clazy 1.4 has been released and brings 10 new checks. Clazy is a clang compiler plugin which emits warnings related to Qt best practices. We’ll be showing Clazy at Qt World Summit in Boston, Oct 29-30, where we are a main Sponsor. You can read more about it in our previous blog posts: How to […]
Nailing 13 signal and slot mistakes with clazy 1.3 Create better Qt code by automatically uncovering easy-to-miss errors
Today I want to share 13 mistakes regarding signals, slots and connect statements and how to find them at compile time with clazy, our open-source static-analyzer for Qt. Clazy is a compiler plugin which generates warnings related to Qt. You can read more about it in our previous blog posts: How to use static analysis […]