Qt 5

Porting from Qt 4 to 5

Looking for a New Year's resolution for 2016? Official support for Qt version 4 came to an end in December 2015. Qt version 5 first came out in 2013 and is currently at version 5.5.1, with the 5.6.0 release coming early this year. Qt 5.6.0 will be the first LTS (Long Term Support) release,…

What's New in Qt 5.4: The QStorageInfo Class

In this blog post, I will cover a new class introduced in Qt 5.4.0: QStorageInfo. This post is based on a Lightning Talk I gave at Qt Developer Days 2014 in San Francisco. Overview The QStorageInfo class provides information about mounted filesystems, also known as volumes. It allows retrieving…

The BeagleBone Black - A Low-Cost Embedded Platform, Part 3

In part one of this series I introduced the BeagleBone Black, a low-cost embedded computer platform that supports Qt. In part two, we looked at how to get Qt 4 up and running on this platform. In this installment, we'll look at how to get the latest release of Qt, Qt 5, running on the…

KDE Frameworks 5 - Taking KArchive for a Test Drive

In this blog post, I present a tutorial on setting up and using one of the libraries from the new KDE Frameworks 5, a collection of add-ons to Qt. Specifically, we'll look at KArchive and what is involved in setting up KArchive on Ubuntu Desktop Linux. Note: If you are reading this after…

The BeagleBone Black: A Low-Cost Embedded Platform, Part 1

In this blog post I will look at the BeagleBone Black, a low-cost embedded computer platform that supports Qt. Introduction There are a number of inexpensive embedded platforms that support Qt and can be used for learning, prototyping or for development of products that can't justify a…