Design, Technical Excellence and Superb User Experience Why does a tipper truck need an app? Meiller is the leading manufacturer of tippers in Europe. KDAB software developers and UI/UX designers worked with Meiller to create a mobile app that interacts with embedded hardware on the truck, allowing drivers to diagnose and fix problems – even […]
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Meet Qt à Lyon – le 1er Décembre avec The Qt Company, KDAB et Witekio - en francais
Meet Qt à Lyon. Rejoignez nos experts Qt pour une journée à Lyon, le 1er Décembre 2016. Nous serons à l’hôtel Novotel Lyon Part-Dieu avec The Qt Company et Witekio, pour répondre à vos questions et vous montrer quelques-unes de nos démos. Vous verrez GammaRay : l’outil
CppCon Special Report
KDAB has long supported the C++ community, as C++ is the backbone of Qt and up-to-date knowledge of its changes keeps us on the leading edge in the Qt world. Later this year we shall be supporting Europe’s Meeting C++ in Berlin, but now that this year’s talks have been released we felt it was […]
Tuple And Pair in C++ APIs? A Simple Design Goal to Improve Your C++ APIs
Quick: When you design C++ APIs, when and how should you use pair and tuple? The answer is as simple as it is surprising: Never. Ever. When we design APIs, we naturally strive for qualities such as readability, ease-of-use, and discoverability. Some C++ types are enablers in this regard: std::optional, std::variant, std::string_view/gsl::string_span, and, of course, […]
GammaRay 2.6.0 – a major new release
GammaRay Model Inspector. GammaRay 2.6 brings you three major new features: We merged the previous model and selection models tools into a new, unified QAbstractItemModel inspector, allowing you to now also see selections and cell flags, as well as to inspect deactivated cells. The new Wayland compositor inspector enables you to observe Wayland clients of […]
KDAB talks at QtCon 2016
Hello! This is a small wrap-up fromQtCon, the biggest Qt event in Europe in 2016, that happened at the beginning of September. At QtCon the Qt community joined forces with the KDE, FSFE and VideoLAN communities, to create an exciting event in the spirit of open collaboration and participation amongst projects. During QtCon many KDAB […]
Qt on Android: How to create an Android service using Qt Full code samples for building with and communicating to QAndroidService background tasks
Starting with Qt 5.7, we added the ability to create Android services using Qt. In this article we’re going to see how to get started and also how to communicate between the two. Before we get started I want to add a big bold WARNING about the performance! Because the services are run in the […]
Goodbye, Q_FOREACH A porting guide to C++11 ranged for-loops
Q_FOREACH (or the alternative form, foreach) will be deprecated soon, probably in Qt 5.9. Starting with Qt 5.7, you can use the QT_NO_FOREACH define to make sure that your code does not depend on Q_FOREACH. You may have wondered what all the fuss is about. Why is there a continuous stream of commits going to into Qt […]
GammaRay 2.5 release
GammaRay 2.5 has been released, the biggest feature release yet of our Qt introspection tool. Besides support for Qt 5.7 and in particular the newly added Qt 3D module a slew of new features awaits you, such as access to QML context property chains and type information, object instance statistics, support for inspecting networking and […]
KDStateMachineEditor 1.1.0 released
KDStateMachineEditor is a Qt-based framework for creating Qt State Machine metacode using a graphical user interface. It works on all major platforms and is now available as part of the Qt Auto suite. The latest release of KDAB’s KDStateMachineEditor includes changes to View, API and Build system. View Button added to show/hide transition labels Now […]