Tutorial: Layouts
I've just updated the Learn Qt tutorial with an entry on Layout Basics. I think that this is the last chapter before I can start putting together a "real" example application.
Tutorial: Layouts
I've just updated the Learn Qt tutorial with an entry on Layout Basics. I think that this is the last chapter before I can start putting together a "real" example application.
New Chapter, and Guest Contribution
A couple of days ago I added a new chapter about the Qt build system to Learn Qt Tutorial. I'm also happy to announce that Ankur Gupta has contributed the first guest entry - a guide to where to find information about Qt.
I'd also like to take this opportunity and thank Qt Software for the new top banner. It looks great!
New Chapter
Added a new chapter to the Learn Qt site and created a TOC type of page for the tutorial entries.
Learning About Qt
I've spent most of my time in the Qt world teaching. I started of with the Independent Qt Tutorial back in 2002. In 2006, the Qt 4 edition of the tutorial turned into the Foundations of Qt Development and actually got printed.
LGPL'ed solutions
I saw that Tro^H^H^HQt Software - let's just call them the trolls - have released a bunch of QtSolutions under the LGPL license. Nice! There are quite a few solutions still available, check out the list. When listing a bunch of widget add-ons, I have to mention the wwWidgets as well.
World of Fun
I enjoy a good strategy puzzler now and then - my long time favorite games are Lemmings, Settlers and such. Just the other day, I discovered that World of Goo is available for Linux. I just downloaded and tried out the demo - and everything works right out of the box (I use an old Kubuntu install that has been upgraded too many times). Nice, nice - time to spend $20 on more tracks :-)
Lesson learned
Just learned that the window flags Qt::FramelessWindowHint | Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint isn't enough in X11 (seems to work on WinXP). You also need to add the Qt::Tool window flag. Just so that you know.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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