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posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday May 20 2014, @11:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the Not-QuickTime dept.

Qt 5.3 has been released. The main focus for this release was performance, stability and usability. Nevertheless, Qt 5.3 has also gotten a fair amount of new features that help make developers' lives easier.

Qt is a cross-platform application and UI framework for developers using C++ or QML, a CSS & JavaScript like language.

Among the highlights of the 5.3 release are:

  • Support for new platforms (Windows 8.1, WinRT, QNX)
  • QQuickWidget a widget attempting to cross the gap between the new Qt Quick interfaces and traditional QWidget-based interfaces
  • Compiled Qt Quick (only available in Enterprise version, sadly
 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by ticho on Tuesday May 20 2014, @12:25PM

    by ticho (89) on Tuesday May 20 2014, @12:25PM (#45573) Homepage Journal

    That's exactly why I included the sentence - even though I am familiar with Qt, not everyone is. :)

    I am writing an application in Qt (primarily for Linux), and so far, compilation for Windows was very easy, once I got the cross-compile toolchain working. The resulting app looked pretty much like a native application on Windows 7 would (ugly, of course, but natively ugly). No ifdefs needed so far. Of course, the application is in very early phase, only a simple window with a top menu bar, a toolbar and few tree views.

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday May 20 2014, @06:08PM

    by frojack (1554) on Tuesday May 20 2014, @06:08PM (#45677) Journal

    Well the sentence isn't exactly true.

    Anything that can be done in one closed syntactical language can be done in another, and there is nothing special about calling one set of low-level APIs as opposed to calling another one.

    You can pretty much build a bridge module from Windows API calls to QT and avoid a great deal of code conversion.

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    • (Score: 1) by ticho on Thursday May 22 2014, @12:43PM

      by ticho (89) on Thursday May 22 2014, @12:43PM (#46340) Homepage Journal

      You can complain to owners of qt-project.org site, I swiped the sentence directly from there. :)