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:
(Score: 3, Informative) by ticho on Tuesday May 20 2014, @12:25PM
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.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday May 20 2014, @06:08PM
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.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 1) by ticho on Thursday May 22 2014, @12:43PM
You can complain to owners of qt-project.org site, I swiped the sentence directly from there. :)