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Coruna, Spain 2015-07-25 2015-07-31 Coruna, Spain – July 25-31 KDAB’s Milian Wolff won a well-deserved KDE Akademy “Best Application” Award for his KDevelop work at this year’s annual KDE Conference, held in Coruna, Spain this July. Well done, Milian! Milian is co-maintainer of the KDevelop IDE and he and other C++ experts from KDAB were […]
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In the last episode of this blog series we learned about the overall concepts of input methods in Qt, with a look behind the scenes to see how a key press event from the native windowing system travels through the Qt input stack until it appears on screen inside a QLineEdit. In that context, the input method […]
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