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Well its taken 3+ years for Qt 3D to be an overnight success, but here it is: we are now part of Qt5 and we’ll be front and centre in the exciting picture that will be powering a new generation of QML enhanced apps on a whole range of platforms. As a Qt5 Essential Qt [...]

Today we released the Alpha of Qt 5, the first major release since the Qt Project went live. A lot of people have worked hard to make this release happen. A large amount of work and features that went into this alpha have been coming from people not working for Nokia. It’s great to see [...]

We just published the Qt Creator 2.5 beta. This release is full of goodies, and as usual we’d like to give you a small tour through the new features, though we can’t possible cover all of them in one blog post. The C++11 standard was published last September. We are happy that Qt Creator 2.5 [...]

Qt Quick brings a lot flexibility and speed to development. Traditionally one had to do the “compile, package, deploy, run” cycle over and over again, whereas with Qt Quick you can now do incremental changes to your source even at runtime! In Qt Creator, we are trying to leverage the power of Qt Quick, version [...]

Introduction A topic which has been receiving quite a bit of attention recently is the use of shader programs to apply effects within Qt Quick applications. Once you have grasped the basics of the shader programming language, embedding the shaders in your application is made really easy by Qt Quick, with the result that stunning [...]

Over the years we have developed a kind of a love-hate relationship towards qmake. It does its job but also has its quirks and is widely considered unmaintainable. The blog post [TMQB] contains a wish list for a qmake replacement. We have considered the various tools on the market, but none satisfied us – see [...]

Hello! We have been improving the QML Profiler over the last months, with a special focus on the user interface. With the latest features we want to make it easier to navigate the time line, locate points of interest, and manage the statistics effectively to gain some insight into your own application. Among the new [...]

Introduction The Qt Graphical Effects project is on its way to offer a set of design neutral visual effects for Qt Quick 2.0. Over twenty ready-made QML graphical effect elements are currently available. The effects include code for blending ... [More] , masking, blurring, coloring, and much more. There are still areas to improve and extend — all ideas, feedback, [...] [Less]

We are happy to announce that a new important update for Qt SDK is published. This Qt SDK 1.2 update sets a new baseline for the developers for a longer perspective. Some of the features have already been available as online updates, but Qt SDK 1.2 now integrates the very latest tools, most recent mobile [...]

Today we publish a patch release of Qt Creator 2.4, that is also included in a bigger Qt SDK 1.2 update. Qt Creator 2.4.1 contains no new features, but fixes a few issues, most notably finding the QMLViewer.app on case sensitive Mac file systems building debugging helpers for universal builds, and tool chain / mkspec [...]