20.12.2019 
Continuing our blog series about KDToolBox, this time we will discuss UiWatchDog, a keepalive monitor for the GUI thread. Alive? A fundamental rule when writing applications in event-driven UI frameworks such as Qt is: do not ever block the GUI thread! The GUI thread is also usually called the main thread of the application — […]
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Using Visual Studio Code for Writing Qt Applications
Software developers like tools, and in particular tools that make them more productive. So in this blog post, I am going to share with you some of the experiences some of us here at KDAB have had using Visual Studio Code for Qt development. Motivation The first question you want to ask is probably, “Why […]
NEW: Qt / QML introduction tutorial release
Today, we see more and more self-guided and remote learning via videos online. To that end, we have been working for more than 6 months now to capture our regular Qt/QML Introduction training on video.
KDTableToListProxyModel: a flattening proxy model
With this blog post we are going to kickstart our brand new blog series about KDToolBox. The first class we’re exploring is KDTableToListProxyModel, a table-to-list proxy model. The main use case for KDTableToListProxyModel is exposing tabular models to Qt Quick. Qt Quick has a certain number of “view” elements that only support list models: for […]
GammaRay 2.11.0 Release
We have released version 2.11.0 of our Qt application monitoring tool GammaRay. GammaRay allows you to observe behavior and data structures of Qt code inside your program live at runtime. GammaRay 2.11 comes with a new inspection tool for Qt’s event handling, providing even more insights into the inner working of your application. Besides looking […]
GammaRay 2.10.0 Release
We have released version 2.10.0 of our Qt application introspection tool GammaRay. GammaRay allows you to observe behavior and data structures of Qt code inside your program live at runtime. GammaRay 2.10 comes with an entirely new inspection tool for QtLocation geo positioning data. Besides visualizing the currently provided positioning data on a map, it […]
KDAB Training at Qt World Summit Berlin 5th December 2018
KDAB offered eight superb Training Classes in Berlin, you can see the list below, which includes one run by our long-term collaborator, froglogic. All the rest were delivered by KDAB engineers. There were five classes in our Introductory group, and three in the Advanced. Read the descriptions carefully to see which one you’d have liked […]
KDAB au Capitole du Libre 2018 17 - 18 novembre, Toulouse, France
Du 17 au 18 novembre, KDAB sera présent au Capitole du Libre 2018 à Toulouse. Depuis sa création en 2011, KDAB (France) soutient le monde du logiciel libre en étant Sponsor Or du Capitole du Libre. L’événement qui a lieu à l’INP-ENSEEIHT à Toulouse accueille environ 1500 participants chaque année et l’entrée y est libre […]
New in Qt 5.11: improvements to the model/view APIs (part 2) Automated validity checks using QAbstractItemModelTester
In the last episode of this series we discussed QAbstractItemModel::checkIndex(). QAbstractItemModel::checkIndex() is a function added in Qt 5.11 that allows developers of model classes to perform some validity checks on the QModelIndex objects passed to the model; specifically, on the indices passed to the APIs that model classes need to implement (rowCount(), columnCount(), data, setData(), […]
Efficient custom shapes in Qt Quick Because rectangles, even rounded ones, can only get you so far.
QtQuick includes basic visual item to construct many common user-interface components, but people often ask how to create different visual appearances, beyond rectangles, round-rectangles and images. There’s various solutions to this problem, and with Qt 5.10, there’s the new Shapes module which makes it easy to define paths, ellipses and other standard SVG drawing elements. […]