30.07.2020 
Blogs My file menu is not full of eels by James Turner Last week, a user reported that the ‘File’ menu of the application was not appearing on macOS. Some investigation showed this didn’t happen when using the default translation (i.e English), but a bit more investigation showed that it only happened when the language […]
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My file menu is not full of eels Or, why do my menus behave oddly on macOS when translated?
This is the story of a bug in an open-source project I maintain; as the maintainer I review and sometimes fix bug reports from the community. Last week, a user reported that the ‘File’ menu of the application was not appearing on macOS. Some investigation showed this didn’t happen when using the default translation (i.e […]
Fixing a common antipattern when loading translations in Qt
TL;DR: If you choose a default translation in your Qt application based on a locale name like this: then please change it to: Some of your users (me!) will be thankful that your application appears in the same language as the rest of their system. Background I’m a Polish guy working with computers, mostly on […]
June ’20 – monthly digest
Blogs Why is my screen dark by Robert Brock A digestible blog on common render issues and what their cause could be. This is part 3 of a blog series explaining common render issues and what their cause could be. Robert Brock sheds some light on possible scenarios. Read the blog… QStringView Diaries: Zero-Allocation String […]
Why is my screen dark A digestible blog on common render issues and what their cause could be
Part 3 If you are here from Part 1, you missed Part 2, somehow. It’s a night scene You have tried everything from the first two parts that seemed applicable, and your screen is still a window to the void? No problem: we’ve gathered another five reasons this could be happening and how to go […]
How to declare a qHash overload
Today’s blog post is about something that should be simple and apparently it causes trouble: how to declare a qHash overload for a custom datatype. This is necessary when we want to use custom datatypes as keys in a QHash. From the documentation: A QHash’s key type has additional requirements other than being an assignable […]
QStringView Diaries: Zero-Allocation String Splitting QStringTokenizer merged for 6.0
After four months of intensive development work, I am happy to announce that the first QStringTokenizer commits have landed in what will eventually become Qt 6.0. The docs should show up, soon. While the version in Qt will be Qt 6-only, KDAB will release this tool for Qt 5 as part of its KDToolBox productivity […]
Kuesa 3D Studio 1.2 – Press Release June 2nd 2020
KUESA™ 3D Studio 1.2 released A Complete Design-to-Code Workflow Solution for 3D Assets in Real-time Applications version 1.2 released makes 3D design and development workflows easy, fast and reliable offers support for Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max, and Blender as well as any other glTF-compatible digital content creation tools New: Iro materials library can simulate common […]
Kuesa 3D 1.2 release!
Today, KDAB is releasing version 1.2 of the 3D integration workflow Kuesa 3D, built on top of Qt 3D. Kuesa™ 3D is a complete design-to-code workflow solution for 3D in real-time applications, centered around the open glTF™ 2 format, supported by Blender, Maya and 3ds Max. Read the Press Release… In short, Kuesa provides a […]
Using Visual Studio Code for Qt Applications – Part Two a technical guide
In the last blog post we saw an essential, C++ oriented, Visual Studio Code setup. That was enough to get going right away, but we can still definitely do more and better. Here I’ll show you how to get a complete setup for your qmake and CMake projects, all this while also wearing a Qt […]