12.04.2017 
A small new feature that I have added to Qt 5.8 is the possibility of disabling narrowing conversions in the new-style QObject::connect statement. In this short blog post I would like to share with you why I thought this was useful and therefore implemented it. The problem Since Qt 5.0, the new-style, PMF-based (pointer to […]
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QStringView Diaries: The Eagle Has Landed QStringView merged for Qt 5.10
After two months of intensive reviews, discussions, fixes, and stripping down the initial commit, feature by feature, to make it acceptable, I am happy to announce that the first QStringView commits have landed in what will eventually become Qt 5.10. Even the docs are already on-line. This is a good time to briefly recapitulate what […]
KDAB and Qt at Embedded World 2017–the video "the future is written with Qt"
Qt partners at the 2017 Embedded world. We had a fabulous time and so did everyone else. KDAB is very proud of our work on the RIMAC supercar. See you next year!
KDAB and Qt at Embedded World Nuremberg
Embedded World Nuremberg was bigger than ever this year (over 30,000 visitors!), with a large number of exhibitors displaying “Qt friendly” signs in Hall 4, showing how far we’ve come in recent years This year KDAB exhibited alongside The Qt Company and other Qt partners at one gigantic stand devoted to all things Qt. Automotive […]
Safety critical drawing with OpenGL SC The main sticking points when migrating OpenGL ES software to functionally safe OpenGL SC
Bringing software into a safety critical environment can be tricky, especially when using the complex APIs needed for modern 3D graphics. That’s what makes OpenGL SC (Safety Critical) so important: it bridges the gap between beautiful displays and functional safety, while trying to remain as close to existing embedded standards that we all know and love. OpenGL SC will only […]
Clang-Tidy, part 1: Modernize your source code using C++11/C++14 Automated refactoring of your source code using powerful open-source tooling
This blog series will introduce the clang-tidy utility from the Clang/LLVM project and show how to use it to automatically refactor
What do I do if a slot is not invoked? A practical checklist to debug your signal/slot connections
All Qt developers have asked themselves at least once in their careers: “why isn’t my slot invoked?” (I’ve asked myself that question many, many times). There are a number of reasons why a connection may fail to be properly set up, and ultimately cause our slot not to be invoked. This blog post is a practical […]
KDAB at Embedded World Nuremberg – 2017
Come and visit KDAB and our Qt partners at stand 4:258 at the largest exhibition of its kind in Europe: Embedded World Nuremberg.
New in Qt 5.8: meta-object support for namespaces Using namespaces in Qt for enumeration introspection
A small new feature that was added to Qt 5.8 is the ability for moc (Qt’s meta-object compiler) to extract meta-object information at the namespace level. This means, for instance, that you can have introspection support for enumerations defined in a namespace (not just in QObject subclasses, or classes tagged with Q_GADGET), and use such […]
Heaptrack v1.0.0 Release First stable release of the fast Linux heap memory profiler
I’m extremely happy to finally announce the first stable release of heaptrack, the FOSS heap memory profiler for C/C++ Linux applications. You can download the source tarball from the KDE mirrors: https://download.kde.org/stable/heaptrack/1.0.0/src/ Heaptrack is a fast heap memory profiler that runs on Linux. It allows you to track all heap memory allocations at run-time. Afterwards, the accompanying GUI […]