[Interest] CppCon 2014 Registration Open

2014-03-18 Thread Charley Bay
Apologies for the cross-post (interest@ and development@), but registration just opened this morning for CppCon 2014, September 7-12, 2014 in Bellevue, Washington, USA. http://cppcon.org/ There is a Super-Early-Bird registration price of $695 for the week for the first 100 people. It would be

Re: [Interest] pyotherside is Awesome

2014-02-20 Thread Charley Bay
Attila spaketh: snip, pyotherside seems different IIRC (from ~2011, SF MeeGo Summit when I believe the) idea was pitched to thp, it started as something a bit different. We already had PyQt and PySide, but they were on the heavyweight side. What I (would have liked :) to see was forget the

[Interest] pyotherside is Awesome

2014-02-19 Thread Charley Bay
Just a heads-up, but I spent the last couple weeks playing around with pyotherside, which binds a Python engine into QML (pyotherside is deployed as a C++ compiled QML plugin). I am really impressed. It is really awesome -- it integrates well, is easy to use, and we can now put QML applications

Re: [Interest] pyotherside is Awesome

2014-02-19 Thread Charley Bay
, but not this time. I used to code PyQt apps, and loved it. It was fantastically easy. Then I used Jython and that was great. I however will not be using this. It's just 'off'. I could be missing the point, and if I am, please tell me! -- *From:* Charley Bay charleyb

[Interest] Qt 5.2.1 Unofficial Binaries

2014-01-31 Thread Charley Bay
I'm looking for pre-built binaries for: *- MSVC2013, 32-bit(x86) *- Qt 5.2 (would be nice to get 5.2.1, would accept 5.1) I found that for 64-bit (x64) at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtx64/ ...but, I need 32-bit. I see there is a place to host unofficial builds on qt-project.org, but

Re: [Interest] Windows Process Duration

2014-01-22 Thread Charley Bay
Jason asketh: Is there a Qt way of getting a handle for a running windows process(or just checking if a certain .exe is currently executing) and determining how long it has been running? Bo respondeth: No, this isn't something you can do in Qt. You have to do platform specific code

Re: [Interest] VS2013

2013-12-12 Thread Charley Bay
Would people feel bad if we no longer provided binaries for VS 2010? Many people are still on VS2010 (in fact, I know a not-negligible amount of companies still on VS 2008) Microsoft is releasing too fast for the mid to large corporation. Felix spaketh: Very true. In fact, i work for one

Re: [Interest] Qt and MSVC 2013

2013-12-06 Thread Charley Bay
Michael Jackson wrote: The VS Plugin also made the debugger a bit more sane in that Qt types were visualized much better in the VS Debugger. BIRD Neil responded: You don't need the plugin for that; you can customise the debugger visualisations yourself. E.g.,

Re: [Interest] Value objects in QML context

2013-10-07 Thread Charley Bay
Roland wrote: Hey there, I couldn't find anything usefull in the internet, so I hope you can help me in a design question. I'm part of a project using QML for the UI. Since we have several value classes, we came across a problem with exposing this value objects into the QML context.

[Interest] QML-plugins problems, pragmatic development questions

2013-09-06 Thread Charley Bay
I'm having a lot of trouble importing my C++ plugins into my QML files (Win7, Qt5.1.1). With many configurations that I think should work, the import MyPlugin 1.0 within a QML file generates the runtime error message (at the `qmlscene` command line, or within QtCreator): module MyPlugin is not

[Interest] QML Presentation System, detailed docs roadmap?

2013-09-06 Thread Charley Bay
Gunnar's post on his QML Presentation System in 2011 was absolutely inspiring, IMHO: http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2011/05/30/a-qml-presentation-system/ At the time, (and still now), I viewed this as a *brilliant* application of QML that would ultimately be a better approach for creating

Re: [Interest] OT: Elop as candidate for Microsoft CEO?

2013-08-30 Thread Charley Bay
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 9:13 PM, K. Frank kfrank2...@gmail.com wrote: Hello List! There is speculation that Elop is in the running for Microsoft CEO. See, for example: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-28/microsoft-ceo-hunt-a-tough-bet-as-web-gamblers-favor-elop.html It would be

[Interest] Qt5.1, Get HWND from QWidget ?

2013-06-25 Thread Charley Bay
I'm porting QWidget code to Qt5.1, it is going fine, we happen to be using the QtWinMigrate add-on from: http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-solutions/qt-solutions/trees/master/qtwinmigrate I recall the discussion last year about the work-around to get a (MS-Windows) native-HWND from a QWidget, as per the

[Interest] Qt5.1, MSVC2012 (x86)?

2013-05-19 Thread Charley Bay
I see the Platforms description for Qt5.0 at: http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt_5.0 However, I do not see a corresponding Platforms page/description for Qt 5.1 (is there one somewhere?) Specifically, I am using/testing the Qt5.1 Beta (through the binary-installers, Windows-Commercial) where we

[Interest] Q_PROPERTY notification across processes?

2013-05-16 Thread Charley Bay
I have a C++ QObject-derived class that exposes properties for use in QML, works fine (Qt5). WHAT I WANT: I would like to instantiate an instance of this class in each of two processes, where changes in one notifies the other (in the other process). This is logically something like

Re: [Interest] [OT] Sexy Qt on the catwalk!

2013-04-20 Thread Charley Bay
Till Oliver Knoll sayeth: Hello list, If that ain't proof that Qt has become totally sexy and attractive! Yesterday evening my wife and I went to the Energy Fashion Night 2013 in Zurich (http://www.energy.ch/fashion-**night/http://www.energy.ch/fashion-night/) where skinny models walked

Re: [Interest] Excel-like grid of numbers in QML

2013-04-13 Thread Charley Bay
Sergey asketh: Must Spreadsheet QML element be written using Qt C++? This is a very interesting exercise, IMHO, and I'm very interested in the results. (Please share as you learn stuff.) In the past, I've written and used many spread-sheet-widgets. The issues seem to come down to: (1) How

[Interest] Namespace on Custom C++ property in QML?

2013-02-25 Thread Charley Bay
I'm sure this is a silly question, but why are these different: // FILE: MyItem0.qml import QtQuick 2.0 import my.custom.cpp 1.0//==NOTE NO as Item { property MyCppType myCppType // WORKS } // FILE: MyItem1.qml import QtQuick 2.0 import my.custom.cpp 1.0 as MyCpp //==NOTE as Item {

Re: [Interest] Namespace on Custom C++ property in QML?

2013-02-25 Thread Charley Bay
charley sayeth: I'm sure this is a silly question, but why are these different: // FILE: MyItem0.qml import QtQuick 2.0 import my.custom.cpp 1.0//==NOTE NO as Item { property MyCppType myCppType // WORKS } // FILE: MyItem1.qml import QtQuick 2.0 import

[Interest] Qt5.1+, custom QQuickItem with text, not using QPainter?

2013-02-24 Thread Charley Bay
I'm deriving from QQuickItem (in C++) to implement custom controls in Qt5.0.1, and I'd like to render text. I don't want to use QQuickPaintedItem (a very simple solution)-- I understand and endorse the OpenGL API of the new QML Scene Graph, and will need many thousands of components, and don't

Re: [Interest] Qt 5 and filesystem

2013-01-07 Thread Charley Bay
Mark sayeth: snip, KDE has a little (pun intended) thingy called KIO. It's a very massive IO framework that has support for a lot of different filesystems. It's all working under Qt and is right now in the progress of being ported to a Qt only library (as in no other dependencies needed to

Re: [Interest] A suggestion about replacing signals, actions and slots

2012-12-27 Thread Charley Bay
snip, (proposal), replace signals/slots with function-pointer? I hope, this stuff can be better (with a way below we do not need to use moc, qmake and have an overhead in Qt library) André already said it (and I agree), but I'll assert clearly: moc is a code generator. You get stuff

Re: [Interest] Qt Dev Days 2012 presentation videos?

2012-11-20 Thread Charley Bay
Hi, Mark-- http://qt-project.org/videos --charley On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Mark mark...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is there any link where i can find the presentation videos from the recent dev days? Cheers, Mark ___ Interest mailing list

Re: [Interest] Qt5: Status of, Add QtService to Qt proper

2012-11-19 Thread Charley Bay
Last June there was a thread with the title, Add QtService to Qt proper that discussed some tender-loving-care required to update QtService to support Qt5. RECALL that QtService is a template add-on (not in Qt-proper) that targeted Qt4, and talk was to make it a non-template, and to add it

Re: [Interest] Scalability of QTimer or QObject::startTimer

2012-10-26 Thread Charley Bay
Prashant spaketh: snip, However, QTimer documentation states that If Qt is unable to deliver the requested number of timer clicks, it will silently discard some. I don't know how to interpret this statement. Does it mean that if a timer has a very low resolution, some clicks are neglected. OR

Re: [Interest] Protect qml files from changing

2012-10-05 Thread Charley Bay
Николай Шатохин requesteth: I'm creating paid application. How can I protect my QML files from changing to avoid app cracking? Thiago respondeth: The simplest way is to put them inside the application, as resources. The QML engine can load from there and they're often compressed, meaning

[Interest] Qt5, QtMobility API: Qt Service Framework

2012-09-30 Thread Charley Bay
I need cross-platform client/server inter-process communication (IPC), and intend to use Qt5+. It seems the blog post regarding the QtMobility API, Qt Service Framework is the way to go: - Initial blog post: - http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2009/05/26/qt-service-framework/ - Qt5 (beta)

Re: [Interest] Best Practices returning data from a dialog

2012-08-22 Thread Charley Bay
JM spaketh: Hi all, What are the best practices to return from a common dialog window? At the moment I have already solved with a Slot connected to the closure of the dialog, that invokes methods to retreive data. But what are the best practices? What are the pros and cons of every

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-14 Thread Charley Bay
most of the commercial licensees are sticking with the commercial license because of the ambiguity with the LGPL and how to apply it; and the fact that while Nokia did do that, they have not provided any clarity to its use. ... while developers of proprietary software, which are

Re: [Interest] Qt5 on MSVC2008, Win7x64 (Tier1)?

2012-07-10 Thread Charley Bay
Hi, All-- Since the thread slowed down, here's the summary (for posterity): QUESTION: WHAT MSVC COMPILER VERSION DESIRED FOR Qt5, TIER-1? MSVC++2005:(0-1) : X MSVC++2008: (7) : XXX MSVC++2010: (6) : XX MSVC++2012: (2) : XX ** More Notes/Comments ** MSVC++2005: - 2005 was

Re: [Interest] Qt5 on MSVC2008, Win7x64 (Tier1)?

2012-07-10 Thread Charley Bay
REVISED_SUMMARY_COMMENT The following revisions are made to the summary, included below: *- I misunderstood the Windows CE issue, which is only supported by MSVC2005 and MSVC2008 (not MSVC2010); *- I kind-of thought MSVC2005 desires were less-important, as it was old, and does not support

Re: [Interest] [interest]

2012-06-19 Thread Charley Bay
Carlos requesteth: how i can to export pdf in QT,please help me snip, Till Oliver Knoll till.oliver.kn...@gmail.com responded: snip, http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qprinter.html#OutputFormat-enum snip, Okay, just to correct my poor spanish :) You use an instance of a QPrinter as a

Re: [Interest] Why QString and not std::string?

2012-06-15 Thread Charley Bay
But it's standard and it is C++. But (I think) the point was: what should have we used for the last 10-15 years of QString? I could've been a bit clearer in my initial post, but I intended to know if there was currently any reason that justified having QString around instead of

Re: [Interest] Does it really worth it?

2012-03-28 Thread Charley Bay
Karl Ruetz spaketh: Is there a commercial customer group providing some input on this? I am a commercial customer. Charts are key to what we do. Is there someone I could contact to provide our requirements in hopes some of them might be addressed? Karl +1, ditto, and +1, ditto.