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The power of qmake

Having been a support engineer for over seven years now at Trolltech, I’ve seen my fair share of inquiries about qmake and since Qt 4.x, qmake has become quite powerful and useful. There are a couple...

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Qt Software Support Needs You!

You may have heard that Qt Software is looking for Software Engineers to work in Qt Support. The description given is fairly standard support job description and may even be putting you off applying....

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QString::indexOf() versus Qt 4.5

For some time now we’ve had an example as part of the Qt package which would show how easy it is to create and use a syntax highlighter in a QTextEdit. Great! I hear you say, so whats the problem? Well...

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Cross-platform code and styles

It is a fairly regular occurrence in my job in Qt Software Support that I get asked how to change the look and feel of a given widget and usually this means changing the style. If the application is...

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Support lab at Qt Developer Days: Out to beat records!

As you all should hopefully be aware by now the annual Developer Days events are coming soon (Oct. 11-13 in Munich, Nov. 1-3 in San Francisco). For the support team it is one of the highlights of the...

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Qt 4.7.2 has been released!

Qt 4.7.2 has now been released.  This is a maintenance release which contains bug-fixes based on feedback and contributions since the Qt 4.7.1 release back in November.  It also marks the official...

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Qt Commercial Support Weekly #20: Visualizing the Logical

In QHeaderView there is admittedly a confusing concept of referring to the different header sections, they can be referred to by their logical index or by their visual index. And then when you start...

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Qt Commercial Support Weekly #21 – Qt Commercial Support Team One-Liner Q&As

Sometimes the support requests that we get can be answered with a single line effectively, so in the spirit of that, in this post I will answer some questions that are answered by a single line.   Q:...

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Qt Commercial Support Weekly #22 – Debugging with Qt tips

Many of you out there will be debugging their applications and sometimes into Qt as well on a fairly regular basis on the different platforms. For the most part you will be using Qt Creator which will...

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Qt Commercial Support Weekly #23 – Explaining the warnings/errors

After an unfortunately long hiatus mainly due to the vacation period we are finally back and hopefully back on track with having weekly updates. So without further delay then here is this week’s...

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Qt Commercial Support Weekly #24 – Dynamic translation of application strings

Being able to provide translations for your application with the help of Qt Linguist is one of the big advantages to using Qt as it makes it easy to translate your application into another language and...

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