Qt Blog

Qt knowledge drop – January

patrick.oechslin@qt.io (Patrick Oechslin) — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 13:23:25 GMT

Greetings, travellers, and Happy New Year!

Extending Qt Bridge

vikas.pachdha@qt.io (Vikas Pachdha) — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 12:18:47 GMT

Qt Design Studio is the latest offering from The Qt Company. It's an easy-to-use design tool that lets designers import designs from Sketch and Photoshop to Qt, animate them, test them live on the target hardware, and turn them into QML code developers can use.

About my Qt times, and a Qt for Python voice assistant

Mariana Meireles — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 09:00:00 GMT

About my Qt times, and a Qt for Python voice assistant

I spent a short time @Qt, but a fruitful one. I was lucky to work with the great Qt for Python team that made me feel very welcomed. I was also lucky to have had a great mentor, Cristián Maureira-Fredes, that was super supportive and cool to work with.

Qbs 1.15.0 released

Richard Weickelt — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 15:12:07 GMT

We are pleased to announce version 1.15.0 of the Qbs build tool.

Welcome the Qt Champions of 2019!

andy.shaw@qt.io (Andy Shaw) — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 09:00:00 GMT

Qt Design Studio 1.4 released

sami.makkonen@qt.io (Sami Makkonen) — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 08:53:43 GMT

We are happy to announce that the Qt Design Studio 1.4 is now available via the online offline installers. Here’s a quick summary of the new features and functions in 1.4 release. For detailed information about the Qt Design Studio, visit the online documentation page.

Building Qt Creator plugins with GitHub Actions

cristian.adam@qt.io (Cristian Adam) — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 17:01:17 GMT

Qt Creator is a cross platform, highly modular, Qt C++ application.

In order to build a Qt Creator plugin you need:

A C++ compiler
The Qt SDK
The Qt Creator SDK

Not many plugin developers know that Qt Creator is shipping an SDK. You don't need to compile Qt Creator in order to develop a Qt Creator plugin. Also having access to all three platforms (Windows, Linux, macOS) is not a common thing for most C++ developers.

GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions is a CI/CD infrastructure provided by GitHub which would give access to all three platforms!
GitHub is also hosting a few Qt Creator plugin repositories, so I decided to try to build the Doxygen plugin (my fork with the GitHub Actions script).

GitHub Actions currently offers the following virtual machines (runners):

Qt 5.9.9 Released

tuukka.turunen@qt.io (Tuukka Turunen) — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 12:42:08 GMT

We have released Qt 5.9.9 today. As a patch release Qt 5.9.9 does not add any new functionality, but provides security fixes and other improvements. We are expecting this to be the last patch release of the Qt 5.9 LTS series.

Qt Installer Framework 3.2.0 Released

katja.marttila@qt.io (Katja Marttila) — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 11:03:39 GMT

Qt 5.14 released!

lars.knoll@qt.io (Lars Knoll) — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 11:33:37 GMT

Just in time to get you into the holiday spirit, we have released Qt 5.14 today. This release, as well as next year’s Qt 5.15 LTS start paving the way towards Qt 6. While we are working on making porting to Qt 6 as smooth as possible in the future by flagging deprecated functionalities, we are also introducing some of the new features you can enjoy now already. Have a look at some of the highlights and sign up for our webinar, where we'll have a look at those changes in detail.