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QWidget Pixel Drawing
Posted In: Qt, Qt Tricks, Widgets
In very rare occasions, we want to draw individual pixels all over a widget. Custom painted widgets are much less common. But we can often get away with much easier painting than doing individual pixels. We draw these using lines, …
Read MoreEncapsulation in QML Components
Posted In: QML
In QML, it’s so easy to use properties of components directly, and it’s even the way most examples do it. But here’s my quesion: If we consider this the wrong approach in C++, isn’t it wrong in QML as well? …
Read MoreQObject SignalBlocker
Sometimes you have to stop a class from emitting a signal for a while. One example that just came up on the Qt interest list was an application that modifies a file which it also monitors with a QFileSystemWatcher. You …
Read MoreImplementing tool tips in QML
Posted In: QML
If you are using the Qt Components, you have tool tips available. But with the standard SDK, you’re on your own. Here, I’ll implement a simple tool tip component for you. In my application, I have a lot of Text …
Read MoreCustom positioners in QML
Posted In: QML
If none of the four standard positioners (Column, Row, Flow, Grid) work for you, you can write your own. I have a pet project that involves a poker table. This is done with a list model that has a list …
Read MoreCtrl +Enter Edit Handling
Posted In: Qt Tricks
I have a pet project where I’m doing some fun stuff with Qt scripting. To quickly test small script things, I implemented a simple window that have a QPlainTextEdit where I input a script, and an output window for what …
Read MorePrinting Parts of an XML Tree
Posted In: Qt Tricks
When debugging XML code, you often wonder about the contents of a subtree. If the tree is small, you can just print it. But when the XML tree gets big, this just isn’t very handy. Especially not if you are …
Read MoreUsing Templates to Avoid Code Duplication
Posted In: C++
The object orientation guys have pretty much won the battle. So much, that when something doesn’t fit in a neat OO inheritance tree, it can’t be done. I recently worked on a commercial project where I saw the following code …
Read MoreQt Sourcecode Structure
One of the questions I often get from companies that hire me to help them in their first project with Qt, is how to structure the source tree. This might look trivial to some, but if you don’t know how …
Read MoreCanonical Locale
Sometimes you need a fixed locale. One of my latest applications was reading and writing floats in XML, and the string parse and write routines for floats are locale dependent. So the XML file would either have “2,01” (US notation) …
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