Tuukka Turunen

Digia Contributes over 200 Desktop and Embedded Error Corrections to Qt 4.8

2/22/2012 1:37 PM | Posted by: Tuukka Turunen
I was just looking through our statistics and noticed that we have contributed over 200 error corrections for Qt 4.8 in the past 6 months. We are working hard to improve Qt Commercial to meet the needs of our customers and one important area is...

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Andy Shaw

Qt Commercial Support Weekly #14 - Introducing QHttpMultiPart

2/20/2012 9:41 AM | Posted by: Andy Shaw
This week we have been dealing with quite a variety of different components in support. Quite a number of things have been reported as bugs and we have been supplying fixes and workarounds to those wherever we can.  Since July 2011, we have been...

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Katherine Barrios

Qt Commercial Formally Supports VxWorks

2/17/2012 11:33 AM | Posted by: Katherine Barrios
Digia, Qt Commercial is happy to say that we have added formal support for Wind River VxWorks. This annoucement further pushes Qt Commercial's commitment to Qt on embedded platforms. It grants our customers and the community the ability to develop...

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Akseli Salovaara

Qt Commercial Creator 2.4.1 Released

2/17/2012 9:56 AM | Posted by: Akseli Salovaara
My name is Akseli Salovaara, and I am responsible for getting you the Qt Commercial releases. Today, I am happy to announce the Qt Commercial Creator 2.4.1 maintenance release. As a maintenance release it doesn’t contain new features, but fixes a...

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Andy Shaw

Qt Commercial Support Weekly #13 - Literals in qmake and loading resources in QTextEdit

2/9/2012 9:39 AM | Posted by: Andy Shaw
Sometimes it may seem difficult to do things that should be easy, and sometimes things that appear to be easy turn out to be a lot harder than anticipated on paper.  This is one of the reasons why it is a good idea to turn to Qt Commercial Support...

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Andy Shaw

Qt Commercial Support Weekly #12 - To delete or not to delete

2/1/2012 8:24 PM | Posted by: Andy Shaw
As a great literary developer may have once said, "To delete or not to delete, that is the question." As we know, with C++ we are expected to clean up after ourselves whenever we do something new so that the memory is available and does not cause ...

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Samuli Piippo

Embedded Linux Development Just Got Easier With with Qt Commercial 4.8 SDK

1/26/2012 12:58 PM | Posted by: Samuli Piippo
Now that the first Qt Commercial SDK is out, you can also enjoy the improvements we have been doing for embedded Linux development. The Qt Commercial SDK now contains everything you need to start Qt development on popular embedded development...

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Tuukka Turunen

The First Qt Commercial SDK is now Available for Desktop and Embedded Development

1/26/2012 12:18 PM | Posted by: Tuukka Turunen
Throughout the latter part of 2011, we have been working with the new Qt Commercial SDK that enables you to install the essential tools and libraries easier than before – and to keep them up to date with new versions. The SDK can be used to develo...

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Sami Makkonen

How to Create Qt Applications with Metro Style

1/25/2012 5:54 PM | Posted by: Sami Makkonen
As the Deploying on Windows 8 Tablets with Qt Commercial blog post demonstrated, the Qt Commercial C++ and Qt Quick applications ran nicely without any problems or modifications on Windows 8 Developer Preview. With this post we are going to show i...

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Andy Shaw

Qt Commercial Support Weekly #11 - Stylesheets and CentOS

1/23/2012 11:31 AM | Posted by: Andy Shaw
  Quite a number of you out there are already using stylesheets and they are handy to use if you want to change the look of a widget in Qt without having to code your own style.  Although there are some limitations with using stylesheets as they...

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Tuukka Turunen

Qt Commercial 4.7.5 Released

1/18/2012 2:19 PM | Posted by: Tuukka Turunen
I am happy to announce the release of Qt Commercial 4.7.5. Based on Qt 4.7.4,  the new release contains the previously unreleased fixes from the Qt 4.7 branch, back-ported fixes from Qt 4.8, as well as new fixes done by Digia. With an overall amou...

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Tags: efficiency cross-platform Qt
Andy Shaw

Qt Commercial Support Weekly #10: Sorting, filtering and advanced manipulation with proxy models

1/12/2012 10:52 AM | Posted by: Andy Shaw
In Qt there is a fairly powerful itemview framework which enables the implementation of model/view concepts.  As you probably know already there are two classes that are available to aid the sorting and filtering of model data.  These classes bein...

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Tags: Qt
Andy Shaw

Qt Commercial Support Weekly #9: Common pitfalls with QThread

1/3/2012 4:44 PM | Posted by: Andy Shaw
After an admittably brief hiatus the Qt Commercial Support weekly post is back in full swing for the new year!  To start off for the new year I will be covering threads and how they tend to get misused generally which can lead to problems later on...

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Tags: framework Qt
Andy Shaw

Qt Support Weekly Holiday 2011 Special: Qt 4.8.0 Build Issues

12/23/2011 11:55 AM | Posted by: Andy Shaw
I know earlier this week I said it would be the last post of the year, but a couple of Qt 4.8.0 build issues have come up and as an extra support weekly post before the holidays I thought it would be good to give the details of the build issues an...

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Andy Shaw

Qt Commercial Support Weekly #8: A Couple of QCoreApplication/QApplication Tips

12/19/2011 4:50 PM | Posted by: Andy Shaw
This will be the last support weekly post of 2011, but there is no need to be sad as we will be back again in the new year as I am taking some (well deserved?) time off next week.   This week we will cover a couple of pieces related to...

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Tuukka Turunen

Presenting Qt Commercial 4.8.0 Final

12/15/2011 12:04 PM | Posted by: Tuukka Turunen
We have had many busy months in Qt Commercial R&D working really hard to provide you the Qt Commercial 4.8.0 release. I am happy to announce its availability for download in our Qt Commercial support portal. Based on the open-source version of Qt...

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Andy Shaw

Qt Commercial Support Weekly #7: Accessing custom datatypes with ActiveQt

12/12/2011 2:06 PM | Posted by: Andy Shaw
Some people may think it is strange or surprising when I say that I am always learning in this job while I am supporting people.  That is one of the great things about Qt. There is always more to it as the versions pass by and I can learn more and...

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Andy Shaw

Qt Commercial Support Weekly #6: QWebSettings Clarification and QtSQL Issues

12/7/2011 2:42 PM | Posted by: Andy Shaw
This week we will have a shorter than usual support weekly, but next week's will be bigger (at least in theory) than ever including an example of how to provide custom interfaces with ActiveQt.   Sometimes the documentation can be, unfortunately,...

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Katherine Barrios

Qt Commercial Formally Supports QNX

11/29/2011 3:57 PM | Posted by: Katherine Barrios
Many of us Digian Qt-ties are getting ready for the first day of Qt Developer Days San Francisco 2011. As the fog clears from what is a very foggy morning in the Bay area, we, together with QNX, are happy to formally announce Qt Commercial's suppo...

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Andy Shaw

Qt Commercial Support Weekly #5: qmake and Giving Mac Some Love

11/29/2011 12:33 AM | Posted by: Andy Shaw
As I have mentioned before in previous support weeklies, qmake is a powerful and useful tool. It is also one close to my heart as I have worked a lot on it in the past including the XCode 4 support that was done recently.   What came up recently i...

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Sami Makkonen

Deploying on Windows 8 Tablets with Qt Commercial

11/24/2011 12:51 PM | Posted by: Sami Makkonen
The upcoming Windows 8 release is expected to bring a large amount of different kinds of tablet devices into the market. These devices are typically equipped with desktop-like capabilities, and can basically run all today’s existing Windows...

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Andy Shaw

Qt Commercial Support Weekly #4: Mixing OpenGL and QPainter + Qt 4.5.x with Sun Studio 12

11/21/2011 3:05 PM | Posted by: Andy Shaw
  As a fair few may already know, it is possible to easily mix painting with OpenGL and QPainter with the help of QPainter::beginNativePainting() and QPainter::endNativePainting().  This enables you to do something like:   painter->beginNativePain...

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Tuukka Turunen

Qt Commercial SDK for Desktop and Embedded Development to be Released in December 2011

11/17/2011 12:25 PM | Posted by: Tuukka Turunen
With the Qt Commercial 4.8.0 release around the corner, we would like to mention that we are also preparing a new SDK in order to get the complete Qt Commercial development environment via a single installer. The new SDK contains Qt Commercial...

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Tags: efficiency cross-platform desktop embedded Qt
Andy Shaw

Qt Commercial Support Weekly #3 – Handling Subtle Problems

11/14/2011 5:26 PM | Posted by: Andy Shaw
In support,  I see all kinds of different questions come up, we get the easy ones from time to time which are still nice to answer because it means that we are able to help someone quickly, which is good for the person asking the question.  Even...

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Tags: cross-platform desktop
Andy Shaw

Qt Commercial Support Weekly #2: Debugging qmake Problems

11/7/2011 1:39 PM | Posted by: Andy Shaw
What always seems to happen from time to time in support is that you can go a few weeks without getting any cases on a particular issue, only to come across a group of them all at the same time.  They are like buses in that respect, you wait for...

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    • Authors

    Akseli Salovaara

    Akseli is a Software Specialist at Digia, Qt Commercial R&D and is responsible for the Qt Commercial releases and deliveries. Akseli holds an B.Sc. degree in Information Technology from the University of Applied Sciences in Jyväskylä, Finland.

    Samuli Piippo

    Samuli is a Software Specialist at Digia, Qt Commercial R&D with a concentration on  embedded Linux and RTOS development. Samuli holds an M.Sc. degree in Information Processing Science from the University of Oulu, Finland.

    Katherine Barrios

    Katherine is the Marketing Manager at Digia, Qt Commercial. She is responsible for getting the word out about Qt Commercial to the Qt ecosystem and working together with our customers and the Qt community to further extend the love for Qt on desktop and embedded. She was previously employed at Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks as Program Marketing Manager and is based in Oslo, Norway.

    Sami Makkonen

    Sami is a Senior Product Manager working at Digia, Qt Commercial R&D and he is responsible for the product planning including new feature development and enhancements to existing functionality. Sami holds an M.Sc.(Econ.) degree in Computer Science.

    Andy Shaw

    Andy is the Head of Support at Digia, Qt Commercial and has been working with Qt and supporting customers using Qt for 11 years.  He thrives on solving customer problems and getting feedback from them.

    Tuukka Turunen

    Tuukka is the Director of R&D at Digia, Qt Commercial and is responsible for the planning, creation, verification and delivery of the Qt Commercial product. Tuukka holds a M.Sc.(Eng) and Licentiate of Technology degrees in Computer Science.

    Qt Commercial Team