Welcome to our Newsletter for October

We hope you like the new style.

Today we bring you Qt for VS Code, the TL;DR version, then PSA: QPointer has a terrible name. 

After that we have three new releases: Qt 6.6, then Heaptrack 1.5 and finally Squish 7.2.

We also have new videos, including the first three in a new 3D and Qt 6 Series, followed by updates to Qt Academy and, of course, Events. 

But first, a word about training, and a very special one-day training coming up next month in Berlin.

KDAB Training News

KDAB Training Day - Nov 27th

Ahead of Qt World Summit in Berlin, we're offering a choice of 5 one-day courses, presented by skilled trainers with key content from our longer courses, all at a knock-down price.

November will soon be upon us, so don't miss the chance to sign up while you still can. At 300 euros, it's a real bargain. Seats still available on all courses at time of writing

If you still haven't decided, Jesper Pedersen gives you three compelling reasons to make up your mind.

Where is it? 

H4 Hotel Berlin Alexanderplatz
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 32
10178 Berlin

Sign up now. 

Tickets available until Nov 15th.

See also Events below for more, especially about Qt World Summit.

KDAB Scheduled Training Schedule - 2024

We just released our latest Training Schedule, listing the classes you can sign up for for the rest of this year and in 2024. Note the latest addition to our portfolio: Embedded Rust.

Talk to us if in-company training better suits your needs.

“The most professional and thorough software development training I have ever followed.” Andrzej Cieslar, Siemens Industry Software

Qt for VS Code, the TL;DR version

by Nicolas Arnaud-Cormos & Sérgio Martins

Our colleague Alessandro Ambrosano created a series of blogs (parts 1, 2 and 3), that explain how to get Visual Studio Code configured for Qt development. In that series, Alessandro covers all the details you need to get your VS Code environment configured exactly the way you want it. But there’s a lot there to read.

What if you’re short on time… or attention span? Then you want this blog. 

Read on . . .

PSA: QPointer has a terrible name

by Giuseppe D'Angelo

If you're new to Qt, maybe don't check out QPointer's documentation just yet, and try to guess what the class does based on its name alone.

I've seen countless users being very confused by it. Some end up using it extensively, thinking that it's the Qt way to store pointers, or a better kind of pointer, or maybe yet another Not Invented Here Qt class solving a non-problem, or something along those lines.

Read on . . .