13.02.2020 
Did you miss the past Qt World Summit? Were you there, but you couldn’t attend that talk or two that you really wanted to see because the conference was so, so packed with awesome content? Fear no more! We are glad to announce that the talks at the past Qt World Summit 2019 in Berlin […]
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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 […]
New features and changes in the Kuesa 1.1.0 release
KUESA™ is a solution that provides an integrated and unified workflow for designers and developers to create, optimize and integrate real time 3D content in a 3D or hybrid 2D/3D software user interface. Models, including geometry, materials, animations and more, can smoothly be shared between designers and developers. Kuesa relies on glTF 2.0, an open standard […]
A little hidden gem: QStringIterator
A few days ago Marc Mutz, colleague of mine at KDAB and also author in this blog, spotted this 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 body looks innocent enough. How would we figure out if a […]
Fix Qt Creator code highlighting on Windows/MSVC projects how to configure your projects to get code highlighting and code navigation back
Have you ever noticed code highlighting disappearing in Qt Creator for some projects, without any apparent reason? Can’t get Ctrl+Click to work on any class name or function name anymore? Maybe you have ignored it at first, got used to it, and decided it’s just one of those things that just “happen sometimes”; or maybe […]
The Eight Rules of Multithreaded Qt The biggest dos and don'ts for multi-threading in Qt
While the concept of multithreading may be straightforward, code with threads is responsible for some wicked bugs, which can be nearly impossible to reproduce or track down. This makes writing bullet-proof code using threads a tall order. Let’s look a little deeper into why that is. First, you need better than average knowledge about the […]
UiWatchDog: a keepalive monitor for the GUI thread Part of the KDToolBox series
Continuing our blog series about KDToolBox, this time we will discuss UiWatchDog, a keepalive monitor for the GUI thread. Alive? A fundamental rule when writing applications in event-driven UI frameworks such as Qt is: do not ever block the GUI thread! The GUI thread is also usually called the main thread of the application — […]
NEW: Qt / QML introduction tutorial release
Today, we see more and more self-guided and remote learning via videos online. To that end, we have been working for more than 6 months now to capture our regular Qt/QML Introduction training on video.
unu – Using Qt on embedded Linux for an electric scooter UI
Right from the start, unu wanted to add a stylish, first-class embedded high-res display to their second generation electric scooter. Like many top-class engineering companies, unu didn’t have in-house expertise for building a modern UI, so they decided to partner with KDAB to build a modern UI based on Qt. In this video you learn […]
Introducing KDDockWidgets An advanced docking framework for Qt
KDDockWidgets is an effort by KDAB to provide an advanced docking system for Qt that QDockWidgets doesn't support. Features include: nesting dock widgets in a floating window, docking to any main window, tab bar with detachable tabs, inner customizable helper widgets.