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In this blog post, part of a series on Qt basics, I'd like to explore Qt's support for input masks and validators. In this first part we'll look at the support from widgets. In a future installment we will see how these features are supported from QML. Overview A general principle of good UX…
BlogIn an earlier blog post (1) I described how to create a widget with a Qt Designer plugin interface so it can be viewed within Qt Designer. With the increased interest in using Qt from the Python programming language, I asked one of our developers to reproduce the same example, …
BlogMy recent blog post covered how to set up Qt and Qt Creator on a Windows 10 system. In this post I'll look at how to configure a Linux system for Qt desktop development. Since the set up process on Linux is almost identical to that on Windows, rather than repeat the information I refer…
BlogFeedback from our recent Qt for Beginners webinar series indicated a need for some basic tutorials for beginners. If you struggle with initially getting Qt set up for development with the Qt Creator IDE and a C++ compiler, this post is for you. I'll walk you step by step through the…
BlogDownload the entire webinar series. In the case of designing an application for an embedded platform instead of desktop, are there any differences in the approach? Yes. This is a large topic, but some of the considerations include the need to use a cross-compiler and deploying the code to a…
BlogQt for beginners part 2 widgets from ICS Read the Questions and Answers here.
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Basic pageIntroduction Qt 5.1 introduces a new method in the QWidget class called createWindowContainer(). It allows embedding a QWindow (such as a QQuickView) into a QWidget-based application. This allows combining both QML and widgets in the same application, something that was not possible with Qt 5.0.…
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