Qt 4

We have released Qt Creator 2.5.1 today. It is a pure bugfix release which mends some of the more serious issues in the 2.5.0 release, including fix in Qt for text editor font rendering on Mac, which would lead to incomplete rendering updates when not using the standard font (if you build Qt Creator yourself [...]

Here in sunny Brisvegas, ‘stralia, we have been doing more than not wearing shoes all year, we have been working all kinds of hard on QtDeclarative, QtMultimedia, QtLocation, QtSystems and QtSensors… oh ya, can’t forget Quality Assurance/CI System. ... [More] Of course, the most exciting one of these is QSensorGestures!  With QtDeclarative, Qt3d, QtMultimedia and QtSensorGestures, you [...] [Less]

The QML core team down under gained a new friend for Qt 5. We finally have the privilege of working with a designer in our team and he’s been helping us in our quest to make QML the most designer friendly UI language. We have created a small video to show you the latest apps [...]

There are changes to the meta object-system in Qt 5, both under the hood and on the API side. Some of the changes are source incompatible with Qt 4. In this blog I’ll describe those changes and how to adapt existing code. I’ll also show a few small API additions that make it easier to [...]

Qt 5 is a very gradual and smooth update from Qt 4. There are generally no breaks in source compatibility, except where we felt that it’s absolutely necessary. One area where we actually decided to do major changes that will affect people porting to Qt 5 is accessibility. The reason is that we were really [...]

According to this recent poll, Desktop Components is one of the most desired add-ons for Qt Quick 2. To help make this a reality we have moved the Desktop Components project over to codereview.qt-project.org and are now accepting contributions, for both the Qt Quick 1 & 2 versions. Several good contributions have been made already, [...]

The Qt Creator 2.5.0 final has been released! There are lots of new features and improvements in this release, I’ll highlight a few here, some others are probably already mentioned in our beta blog post, and you’ll find a more complete list in our changes file. So, new features and improvements include but are not [...]

We are happy to announce the Qt Creator 2.5 release candidate today. Since the beta release we did a lot of bug fixing, including some crashes and some regressions in the C++ code model handling. Thanks to all who contributed to these 180+ fixes. And special thanks this time go to Leena, for all the [...]

We have seen the many questions and the concerns raised about our commitment to C++ and QWidget in Qt 5. I thought now would be a good time to address some of these concerns in this post. The post on the Qt 5 alpha was focused on the new things we enable and add with [...]

Cross compiling Qt for particular devices/BSPs can be frustrating when operating from first principles and we are trying to improve the existing configure/qmake build infrastructure in Qt 5, as well as the associated documentation, in order to ease ... [More] this burden. We are approaching the problem from 2 angles: General cross compilation support Direct target support [...] [Less]