26.09.2018 
QtQuick includes basic visual item to construct many common user-interface components, but people often ask how to create different visual appearances, beyond rectangles, round-rectangles and images. There’s various solutions to this problem, and with Qt 5.10, there’s the new Shapes module which makes it easy to define paths, ellipses and other standard SVG drawing elements. […]
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KDAB at SIGGRAPH – 2018 how it went
KDAB had a great time at SIGGRAPH in Vancouver, August 12-16. We were in a good position as part of the Qt booth, which was highly visible and got lots of visitors. A key attraction was the Nanoquill #color4cancer Wall, mentioned in the talk given at SIGGRAPH by Michel Nederlof and Daniel Szecket of Quantitative […]
KDAB Talks at Qt World Summit – Boston October 30th
KDAB is offering two talks at Qt World Summit in Boston. Here’s a preview before the full program is published. The first, from Qt 3D expert Mike Krus, gives an in-depth look at how to make the collaboration between designers and developers smoother. The second, from Qt expert David Faure, introduces KDAB’s awesome Opensource tools […]
KD Chart 2.6.1 Released The Qt tool for creating business charts
This is the latest release of our powerful open-source Qt component, KD Chart, that allows you to create business charts and much more. Release Highlights Builds with modern Qt versions, at least up to Qt 5.10 Improves tooltip handling Fixes horizontal bar chart Uses @rpath for OSX dynamic libraries Fixes build on Qt4/ARM KD Chart […]
GammaRay 2.9.1 Release
We have released version 2.9.1 of our Qt application introspection tool GammaRay. Besides important improvements for use in Android APK bundles this release fixes a number of corner cases in the Qt Quick remote view, including crashes and corrupt view content when encountering certain non-integer high DPI scaling factors. Problems with activating the Qt 3D […]
KDAB at CppCon, Sept 23-29, 2018 and a 2-day post-conference training not to miss
KDAB is once again proud to be sponsoring CppCon, the annual, week-long gathering, organized by the C++ community for the C++ community. Kicking off with a Keynote from Bjarne Sjoustroup, and followed by a week of presentations, panels and Lightning Talks, social sessions and much more, CppCon is a rare treat in the C++ calendar […]
KDAB at SIGGRAPH 2018 Vancouver, August 12-16
It’s almost upon us – August 12-16, in Vancouver: SIGGRAPH, the hottest show in town, and the 45th SIGGRAPH Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. This year KDAB is sharing a Qt booth with The Qt Company. You can find us at Stand 1333, not far from the Attendee Lounge and opposite The Experience Hall. […]
Python – Tron Demo Using Qt Quick and the Qt 3D QML API
For SIGGRAPH, KDAB has been working on a new Qt 3D based demo. We decided that instead of using C++, it would be interesting to try out PySide2 and harness Python to drive the application. The idea behind this demo is to do with data acquisition of a vehicle’s surrounding environment. Once the data is […]
LibreOffice and Plasma easing the use of GTK apps on the KDE desktop
At KDAB, we know that consistency is an important aspect of the User Experience – users don’t want to have to learn different ways to achieve the same thing. In the Linux world, there is a major structural pitfall to this: the applications written for Linux come in at least two major technologies – Qt […]
KDAB at Meet Qt in Paris June 19th
Thanks for joining us for this year’s edition of Meet Qt that took place in Paris on the 19th June. The focus this year was medical and automotive and the event was again very successful despite the train strikes. If you could not attend here is an idea of what KDAB offered: A medical client’s […]