23.09.2020 
GammaRay 2.11.2 We have released version 2.11.2 of our Qt application introspection tool GammaRay, bringing support for Qt 5.15 and improved Qt Quick item picking. GammaRay is a software introspection tool for Qt applications developed by KDAB. Leveraging the QObject introspection mechanism it allows you to observe and manipulate your application at runtime. This works […]
Author Archives: Frances Tait
Meeting C++ 2020 November 12 - 14
The Schedule, Talks and Speakers are now online for this ever growing ‘partly virtual ‘event for the European C++ community. KDAB is proud to be a Gold sponsor this year. This year’s online conference features eleven talks in one track. On November 14th you can see a talk from KDAB’s Marc Mutz: Partially-Formed Objects […]
April ’20 – monthly digest
Blogs An engineer answers the doorbell by Andreas Holzammer A funky solution during a pandemic, when most of the office is empty. Read more… Qt, range-based for loops and structured bindings Part 1 by Ivan Čukić The evolution of the C++ programming language and Qt. Read more… Why is my screen Black? A digestible blog […]
Using Modern CMake with Qt
KDAB’s Kevin Funk presented Using Modern CMake with Qt at Qt Virtual Tech Con last month. He reported that the Qt Company did a great job moderating the sessions at this event, and there was a lively Q&A at the end – Kevin had to pick from about 60 questions, so this is a hot […]
March ’20 – monthly digest
Blogs Ideas for working from home by Kirsi Sutherland KDAB has had home workers since its inception twenty years ago. But not everybody is familiar with how to do it successfully. In this post, Kirsi shares some insights on the challenges facing a newbie home worker. Read on… Debugging and Profiling Qt 3D Apps Learn […]
February ’20 – monthly digest
Blogs How not to lose the alpha channel when converting between QRgb/QColor/QString by Milian Wolff Working on color imagery for QiTissue recently, I realized we were accidentally losing the alpha channel in multiple places. For efficiency reasons, we keep colors in memory using the QRgb type, and convert that to/from QString for serialization purposes via […]
KDSoap 1.9.0 released
KD SOAP is a tool for creating client applications for web services. The release of 1.9.0 brings a fair number of improvements and fixes, as the following text describes. General C++11 is now required. Qt4 is still supported, but this is the last release with support for Qt4. rpath for Unix/Linux/macOS (#181) is now fixed. […]
January ’20 – monthly digest
Blogs A little hidden gem: QStringIterator by Giuseppe D’Angelo and Marc Mutz A few days ago Marc Mutz, colleague of mine at KDAB and also author in this blog, spotted a function from Qt’s source code (documentation). Apart from the mistake of considering empty strings not uppercase, which can be easily fixed, the loop in the […]
KDAB at Embedded World, Nuremberg 25 - 27 February
Embedded World – 25-27 February 2020 February 2020 will be the tenth year that KDAB exhibits at Embedded World, in Nuremberg, Germany. When we started exhibiting, there were only five halls compared to today’s seven, so the event continues to grow and remain relevant, in a world where most interaction takes place on-line. In those […]
Qt World Summit Training – Berlin 2019 Course descriptions
At Qt World Summit in 2019, KDAB offered five Introductory courses (one was given by our partner, froglogic), and three advanced classes., as follows: Introductory Course descriptions Introduction to Qt 3D Studio, trainer: Nuno Pinheiro This training introduces designers and developers to 3D content workflows and concepts, giving them a solid grounding in creating content […]