18.06.2018 
With all the advances being made in Qt 3D, we wanted to create some new examples showing some of what it can do. To get us started, we decided to use an existing learning framework, so we followed the open source Tower Defence course, which you can find at CGCookie. Being a game, it allows […]
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The LiMux desktop and the City of Munich KDAB and the case for Free Software for public administration
There has been a lot of back and forth around the use of Free Software in public administration. One of the latest initiatives in this area was started by the Free Software Foundation Europe, FSFE. It focuses on the slogan: Public Money – Public Code. There are various usage scenarios for Free Software in public administration. […]
The LiMux desktop and the City of Munich KDAB and the case for Free Software for public administration
There has been a lot of back and forth around the use of Free Software in public administration. One of the latest initiatives in this area was started by the Free Software Foundation Europe, FSFE. It focuses on the slogan: Public Money – Public Code. There are various usage scenarios for Free Software in public administration. […]
KDAB at Qt Contributor's Summit 2018, Oslo 11-12 June
KDAB is a major sponsor of this event and a key independent contributor to Qt as our blogs attest. Every year, dedicated Qt contributors gather at Qt Contributors’ Summit to share with their peers latest knowledge and best practices, ensuring that the Qt framework stays at the top of its game. Be a Contributor to […]
Heaptrack v1.1.0 release Better memory profiling on Linux
After more than a year of work, I’m pleased to release another version of heaptrack, the Linux memory profiler! The new version 1.1.0 comes with some new features, significant performance improvements and – most importantly – much improved stability and correctness. If you have tried version v1.0 in the past and encountered problems, update to […]
KDAB at SIGGRAPH 2018 12-18 August, Vancouver
Yes, folks. This year SIGGRAPH 2018 is in Canada and we’ll be there at the Qt booth, showing off our latest tooling and demos. These days, you’d be surprised where Qt is used under the hood, even by the biggest players in the 3D world! SIGGRAPH 2018 is a five-day immersion into the latest innovations […]
KDAB at Italian Cpp 2018 June 23rd
KDAB is proud to be bronze sponsor at Italian C++ Conference, the largest conference in Italy specifically focused on C++ development for professionals, students and businesses using C++. It’s free, organized by the Italian C++ community, and there’s Italian icecream to think about too… It’s an offer you can’t refuse 😉 Sign up and see […]
QtDay Italy, May 23-24 Florence
Once more in Florence, QtDay Italy is almost upon us and we’ll be there. Giuseppe D’Angelo will be giving a talk on Gammaray, KDAB’s open source profiling and debugging tool. GammaRay is a “high-level debugger”, able to show the status of various Qt subsystems inside an application, with an easy to use interface (that does […]
New in Qt 5.11: improvements to the model/view APIs (part 1)
The Qt model/view APIs are used throughout Qt — in Qt Widgets, in Qt Quick, as well as in other non-GUI code. As I tell my students when I deliver Qt trainings: mastering the usage of model/view classes and functions is mandatory knowledge, any non-trivial Qt application is going to be data-driven, with the data […]
Browse PDFs in a Qt Widgets application
Some months ago Shawn Rutledge blogged about the new QtPdf module, a Qt wrapper around the PDFium library, which allows you to render PDF documents to QImages. Since that blog post we have invested some more work into the module to make it more useful in your day-to-day projects.