04.11.2019 
KDDockWidgets is an effort by KDAB to provide an advanced docking system for Qt. Throughout the years KDAB has contributed and funded QDockWidget development. Sadly, this wasn’t without pain: each change took many days to implement and an equal amount of time to fix regressions. QDockWidget mixes GUI code with logic/state in a spaghetti manner, […]
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Qt 3D Synchronisation Revisited
As mentioned in the previous article in this series, Qt 3D 5.14 is bringing a number of changes aimed at improving performance. Most people familiar with Qt 3D will know that the API is designed around the construction of a scene graph, creating a hierarchy of Entities, each of them having having any number of […]
Qt 3D: One too many threads or what has changed in 5.14
Qt 3D makes heavy use of threads, as a way to spread work across CPU cores and maximize throughput, but also to minimize the chances of blocking the main thread. Though nice on paper, the last case eventually leads to added complexity. Sometimes, there are just one too many threads. In the past, we’ve been […]
KDAB at C++ Russia, Saint Petersburg Oct 31 - Nov 1
C++ Russia is the premier C++ conference in East Europe which alternates between Moscow and Saint Petersburg. The conference lasts for two days starting October 31st. It will be held in the Park Inn by Radisson Pulkovskaya Hotel in the heart of Saint Petersburg. This year, the speaker line-up is quite impressive and includes names […]
Qt for Android better than ever before What's new in Qt 5.14 for Android
As you already know KDAB is the largest independent contributor to Qt code. Of course we didn’t get lazy and we’ve added a lot of cool stuff to Qt 5.14. In this article I’m going to write about the super cool stuff that we’ve added to Qt 5.14 for Android. Android multi arch build in […]
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 […]
KDAB Demos at Qt World Summit 2019 Nov 4 - 6
KDAB Demos at Qt World Summit KDAB is Gold Sponsor at Qt World Summit. We’re running the pre-conference Training Day, offering fourteen top-notch talks in the program and celebrating our 20th Anniversary with a party for attendees on the evening of November 5th. We also have a stunning array of demos for you at this […]
Introducing KDToolBox KDAB R&D contribution of useful C++ classes
At KDAB we invest a significant amount of efforts in research and development. We are always looking for new tooling, libraries and utilities that can make our job easier and improve the C++ and Qt ecosystems. Ultimately, the gained knowledge and skills make our customers happier. As part of this process we develop lots of […]
KDAB talks at Qt World Summit 2019 November 4 - 6
The agenda is published and KDAB engineers are offering a wealth of technical talks this year. Optimizing the Rendering of Qt Quick 2 applications, Giuseppe D’Angelo If you have ever wondered how Qt Quick applications are rendered to the screen, and how to use that knowledge to find and fix performance problems, then this talk […]
KDAB at Squish Days Europe, Munich Oct 17-18, 2019
KDAB will be supporting our training partner, froglogic, at this event in Munich dedicated to Squish, the automated GUI tester we are proud to support. Complete with live demo-ing, Tobias Naetterlund, KDAB’s foremost Squish expert, will be giving a talk showing how to control multiple clients simultaneously on one or more machines, using this versatile […]