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21.09.2015 8 comments

Qt 5.6 with support for Windows Embedded Compact 2013 KDAB presents Qt 5.6 with support for Windows Embedded Compact 2013

It has been a few months since my last update about the Windows Embedded Compact (WEC) port of Qt. But as I promised last time, I have been working on the WEC2013 support for Qt. Not only because it’s the new embedded platform from Microsoft, but also because Qt wants to adopt more C++11 in […]

08.09.2015 No comments

Learn OpenGL with KDAB New dedicated UK training facility

To meet the growing demand for professional OpenGL, C++ and Qt trainings, KDAB has decided to open a dedicated training facility in the UK, just 20 minutes from Manchester airport. Now, in the UK, you can easily get the top quality experience you have come to expect from KDAB’s expert trainings at our Berlin facility […]

07.09.2015 31 comments

How to use static analysis to improve performance

It’s usually said “only improve performance where a profiler tells you to“. I don’t completely agree. Take a big C++ library like Qt: can you profile all classes and all code paths ? It would take a couple of years to accomplish and analyse the results. It’s expensive: It usually only happens if the speed-up […]

14.08.2015 No comments

KDE and KDAB’s Akademy Award

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 […]

13.08.2015 22 comments

Qt Input Method – Virtual Keyboard Implementing an out-of-process virtual keyboard for text input in Qt apps

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 […]

13.08.2015 9 comments

Qt and KDAB at CppCon 2015

For years now I have been watching the video recordings of talks from various C++ conferences across the globe. As a developer, they are an invaluable source of information and inspiration. I have fond memories of watching GoingNative 2012 in a live stream with some colleagues of mine in our office in Berlin. But, over the years, […]