Save yourself repetitive typing: CMake can read configuration values straight from environment variables, letting you set your preferred generator, enable compile_commands.json, and more - once in your shell config, applied to every build folder from then on.

This tutorial shows how to display Qt Widget windows in a Qt Quick application, combining the flexibility of both frameworks. Learn how to manage integration through C++, expose widget properties and signals to QML, and build multi-window UIs for desktop or embedded platforms from real world examples.

This post is part of an ongoing series about developments and discussions in Qt. Some parts of this report are still under discussion, and don’t necessarily reflect the final state of Qt 5. The target audience is people involved in Qt development itself, but without the time to follow everything that happens, and others with […]

If you’re a reader of this blog, you probably know that we have a huge amount of quality material on QML and Qt Quick, among other topics. In fact, there is so much material that it can be hard to find what you need. If that sounds familiar, you’ll want to bookmark this page! This […]

CMake 3.19 was officially released a couple of months ago, and one of the biggest – and most exciting – new features is the addition of presets. What are presets, you might ask, and why should we be excited about them? Presets are a bunch of pre-set CMake options that enable developers to ensure that […]

Python is a handy all-purpose language. It can make you very productive within a short time period and has powerful expressiveness for data manipulation and processing. Yet, it's not a great fit for lots of tasks. C++ is far better at achieving anything that needs bare metal performance, deterministic timing, or low-level access. Thankfully, some […]

The goal When building C++ code with CMake, it is very common to want to set some pre-processor defines in the CMake code. For instance, we might want to set the project's version number in a single place, in CMake code like this: This sets the CMake variable PROJECT_VERSION to 1.5, which we can then […]

Writing mobile apps can be a lot of fun, especially with Qt and QML. But if your background is all about C++ and Qt, writing the entire required stack for a mobile app can be challenging. Adding push notifications, storing information, and having to write that with another language and framework might make you give […]

If you missed Qt Desktop Days, you might be wondering what you missed. No need to worry! We’re going to give you a day-by-day summary of some of the cool things that were discussed, demoed, and explained. (We’re uploading all of the videos to our YouTube channel, but we’ll provide the direct links to each […]

The KDAB Training Day will be back in Berlin, at the H4 Hotel Berlin Alexanderplatz, on November 27th this year, right before the annual Qt World Summit, which will happen November 28-29th. Ideal to take part in both events! KDAB is well-known for its quality training courses around Qt/QML, Modern C++, Debugging and Profiling, OpenGL, […]