14.08.2014 
The Challenge Previously on this blog, we featured a series of articles about our QML-based presentation tool, SlideViewer. To quickly recap: SlideViewer is a presentation program that allows writing slides entirely in QML. There are situations in which the slide deck needs to be available in PDF format in addition to the QML source: For […]
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Code highlighting in SlideViewer
A couple of months ago, Jesper Pedersen introduced our presentation tool for trainings, called SlideViewer. As SlideViewer is mainly used for our Qt and Squish trainings, we naturally have many code examples on the slides, ranging from C++ and QML to Python and XML. In this blog post, we will take a closer look at […]
Adapting SlideViewer to Qt Quick Controls
Several previous posts have introduced our SlideViewer tool which we created for use in the various trainings we deliver. The tool started out as an experiment, created using basic QtQuick 2 Items. Startup configuration was specified by command line arguments, and a simple Keys.onPressed function provided most of the runtime control: both navigating around the slide […]
SlideViewer and the Display Window
Introduction Following on from the previous articles on SlideViewer, we shall now investigate another piece of the puzzle towards making SlideViewer usable in practise. Namely, getting the content rendered from our domain specific language and on to the screen or projector for the audience to marvel at. Those of you that have ever presented at […]
The development of SlideViewer A QML-based presentation program
Introduction At Qt developer Days in Berlin 2013 I had an Aha! moment. I saw a presentation written in QML rather than the usual Powerpoint/LibreOffice/Keynote. It wasn’t that I did not imagine this was possible, rather the contrary, after all in KDAB we have more than 3000 slides on Qt-related topics, all written in …. […]