One of the useful outcomes the work Bertjan did on tooling for program understanding and refactoring is a list of considerations we can use to assess the suitability of new tools. Requirements for a porting system Section 1.3.5 of his thesis details the requirements for a similar porting system: GR1: Scalability The qt4to5 porting tool […]
We just released CXX-Qt version 0.5! CXX-Qt is a set of Rust crates for creating bidirectional Rust ⇄ C++ bindings with Qt. It can be used to integrate Rust into C++ applications using CMake or build Rust applications with Cargo. CXX-Qt provides tools for implementing QObject subclasses in Rust that can be used from C++, […]
We just released CXX-Qt version 0.6! CXX-Qt is a set of Rust crates for creating bidirectional Rust ⇄ C++ bindings with Qt. It can be used to integrate Rust into C++ applications using CMake or build Rust applications with Cargo. CXX-Qt provides tools for implementing QObject subclasses in Rust that can be used from C++, […]
So, you are using Qt Designer to create your user interfaces? Great! But how do you get your own custom widgets in there? There are two ways, create a plugin for Qt designer or promote an existing widget. In this episode we will see both.
This first episode of the "Show me your IDE" mini-series features Jesper talking with CLion user Alexander Busse about his top 4 features and Qt integration. Key topics include CLion's inline annotations, the "everything runner" functionality, powerful refactoring capabilities, seamless CMake integration, Git workflow features, Qt Widgets support, Qt Designer integration, and keyboard-friendly interface design for efficient development workflow.
Once again, the theme of the day is how to speed up Qt development with Visual Studio Code. In part 2 of this blog series, we walked through how to get a complete setup for your qmake and CMake projects, with a deeper look at the Qt side. This time, I will share a few […]
CMake 3.0 was released last week with many major new features and new Qt integration for uic and rcc. A major change with this CMake release is the new documentation system based on reStructuredText and Sphinx. Sphinx has the ability to generate Qt Assistant files, so these are now easy to create reproducibly from the […]
If you're a C++ developer, with or without Qt, on Windows, and sometimes need to test your application on Linux, there's an easy way to build and test it without rebooting now. Microsoft introduced Windows Subsystem for Linux. A mechanism to run a lightweight virtual machine with a Linux distribution with just a few clicks with elegant integration with the host OS. I'll show you how to install it and configure for working with C++ and Qt applications.
A quick review of recent changes in CXX-Qt, a set of Rust crates for creating bidirectional Rust ⇄ C++ bindings with Qt.
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This YouTube short summarizes changes needed to have a Qt Quick app work with both Qt 5 and Qt 6. It primarily focuses on required changes to QML and CMake files, but it also mentions other aspects of porting C++ and shaders that are discussed more in depth in other videos.
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 […]
KDSoap 2.0.0 was just released! What is KDSoap? KDSoap is a tool for creating client applications for web services, without the need for any further component such as a dedicated web server. This tool makes it possible to interact with applications which have APIs that can be exported as SOAP objects. The web service then […]
We've just released version 1.8.2 of our developer tool, KD Reports. KD Reports generates printable and exportable reports from code and from XML descriptions. Reports may contain text paragraphs, tables, headlines, charts, headers and footers and more. Version 1.8.2 is planned to be the final release in the 1.8 series of KD Reports. KD Reports […]
KDAB sponsors this year's Qt World Summit, offering a customer case presentation and two talks on the agenda. KDAB also hosts the popular KDAB Training Day on the day after QtWS.
Meet KDAB at Embedded World and explore demos featuring Qt, C++, 3D, Slint, Rust, and Flutter, including the HULKs Robot with the first SPL Robotics Framework built with Rust.
For the 14th time, KDAB exhibited at Embedded World - The meeting place for the global embedded community! Here, as expected, you got three days of pioneering technologies, solutions, new ideas, and intelligent concepts. Embedded World took place in Nürnberg, Germany from 9 - 11 April 2024 and the KDAB booth was in Hall 4-302 […]
In this edition: Interview with SixtyFPS founders Simon Hausmann and Olivier Goffart, KDDockWidgets 1.2 release with Wayland, WebAssembly/WASM and Qt 6 support, Vulkan on QNX discussion, Qt Embedded Days call for talks, and Tool of the month: "cmake-project".
As described in our previous blog posts, you can use Visual Studio Code as an IDE for C++ projects. It works particularly well with CMake-based projects. Unfortunately, with build systems not supported natively by VS Code, you need to manually configure include paths and compilation definitions, for the code model to work properly. Since the […]
The Need for Simple & Modular QR Generation in QML Recently, our designer Nuno Pinheiro needed to generate QR codes for an Android app in QML and started asking around about a simple way to do this. The best existing QML solution was QZXing, a Qt/QML wrapper for the 1D/2D barcode image processing library ZXing. […]
