Clazy 1.5 is now available. This is a small release, mainly focused on bug fixing. Clazy is a clang compiler plugin which emits warnings related to Qt best practices. We'll be showing Clazy at Embedded World, Nuremberg, Feb 26-28, where we are a main Qt partner. You can read more about it in our previous […]

We are happy to announce the release of Qt Automotive Suite 2.0, the Qt solution for digital cockpits, developed in collaboration between KDAB, The Qt Company and Luxoft. The Qt Automotive Suite provides OEMs and Tier1s with powerful frameworks and tools to build a consistent user experience for both the instrument cluster and the center […]

In the previous episode we presented how to uncover 32 Qt best practices at compile time with clazy. Today it's time to show 5 more and other new goodies present in the freshly released clazy v1.2. New checks 1. connect-not-normalized Warns when the content of SIGNAL(), SLOT(), Q_ARG() and Q_RETURN_ARG() is not normalized. Using normalized […]

Some of you may know that Qt 3D is going strong almost entirely due to the work of the KDAB team, led by Dr. Sean Harmer and Paul Lemire. You can read all about its near demise and ultimate rescue here - it’s quite a story, and started with the release of Qt 4. Now […]

KDSoap is a tool for creating client applications for web services without the need for any further component such as a dedicated web server. KDSoap lets you interact with applications which have APIs that can be exported as SOAP objects. The web service then provides a machine-accessible interface to its functionality via HTTP. You can […]

KD Chart 2.6.0 is a maintenance release with a limited number of new features. This release publishes feature additions and bugfixes since KD Chart 2.5.1. KDAB continues to offer a commercial license without flat fee support for KD Chart. Features: - Code updated to compile with Qt 5.6 - Optional line breaking for horizontal legends […]

The latest release of KD Reports further enhances your ability to get printable and exportable reports from code and XML descriptions. For those who like using CMake instead of qmake, you'll be glad to know KD Reports now comes with a fully functioning CMake buildsystem (see INSTALL-cmake.txt). In addition, we have added Frame element and […]

Right from the start, we at KDAB have had lots of fun playing a leading role – and as the Qt experts, we look forward to continuing to contribute to the growing Qt community. As a toast to the next 20 years of fun and success, we are combining the company meeting, this year here […]

by Sean Harmer of KDAB Back in the days when Qt was owned by Nokia, a development team in Brisbane had the idea of making it easy to incorporate 3D content into Qt applications. This happened around the time of the introduction of the QML language and technology stack, and so it was only natural […]

June 10, 12 and 16 - 2014. Continuing from our springtime European tour, we are offering hands-on training sessions this June in New York, San José and Chicago. Each of these will be a free, three-hour, hands-on session that delves into the internals of Qt on Android. Learn how to: set up the Qt development environment for […]

Behind the screen - development of a QML application. Usually we do not get to talk about the innovative solutions our employees find to almost impossible problems on a daily basis - I guess that is just part of life as a consulting company. Recently we developed an in-house application, and that gives us the […]

GammaRay 2.0 beta release came out on Friday, January 10th and the final GammaRay 2.0 was released on January 17th. GammaRay 2.0 has a largely reworked core compared to the previous versions, enabling remote debugging. That's especially useful for working on embedded systems, but also helps minimize interference with the inspected process on the desktop. […]

The guys at QNX have been doing such great stuff with the QNX Concept Car, we wanted to draw our reader's attention to the fact that, "under the hood" and so not publicized, the awesome entertainment system and the instrument cluster in the Mercedes are done with Qt 5 (QML2 to be precise) on top […]

As you might already know, we are working on a type-safe template-based SQL support, SQLate, which allow you (among others) to get rid of string-based SQL queries in your Qt application. We are very proud of this new tool so naturally we decided to present it to the public during the Qt Developers days in […]

KDAB is now offering three-day training courses on C++11, the new C++ version that was introduced in 2011. C++11 will become more and more important in the C++ ecosystem, eventually becoming the most prevalent version. Every professional developer should invest in learning the new language version and try introducing its benefits into projects. And for […]

It was announced this morning that Digia Plc will acquire the "Qt software technologies and Qt business" from Nokia. This ends the recent uncertainty in the Qt community, something that should be beneficial for the Qt ecosystem and the Qt users worldwide, including KDAB's customers, and hopefully ensures the continuity and sustained funding of Qt […]

The first in-depth training on multithreading took place at the KDAB training facility in Berlin between the 16th and 18th of April. The training course was written and presented by KDAB Senior Software Engineer, Marc Mutz. Unlike our more general "Programming with Qt" training courses, this training was specifically aimed at understanding the concepts, potential […]

KDAB developers use Qt Creator on their own projects and it is the IDE of choice for KDAB's Qt training courses.KDAB has already contributed to Qt Creator in the past and is continuing this effort within the Qt Open Governance system. The next release, Qt Creator 2.5, will contain some features we are now using […]

At KDAB, we believe that Qt's Open Governance model is a great way to ensure Qt will continue to thrive and be sustainably developed and maintained without relying on any individual stakeholder, no matter how committed. This model can only work if all those who have a strong commitment to Qt do their part and […]