Qt Pieces

Whenever I encounter some interesting problem, I tend to write down the solution for it. So, this is a list of small How-Tos and Articles for the Qt framework...

Tools & Recipes

• Distributing shared libs with your App
• Finding out stuff about your programs and DLLs
• How to become a Qt guru
• Printing QString objects in GDB - a macro for gdb to make QString more accessible
• Compiling Qt5.0.0 with MinGW - a more complete recipe
• Enhancing containers for range based for loops (using QDomNodeList as an example)
• QMake: Using SUBDIRS for fun and profit

Classes & Programming

• Memory Management and Garbage Collection with Qt
• Getting stack-traces from crashes
• Cheshire Cats with C++ and Qt (also known as: d-ptr, handle class, pimpl idiom, compiler firewall idiom, bridge pattern)
• Simple calculations with ELAM
• Time Zone calculations with Qt -- Note: this will be obsolete with Qt 5.2 (or maybe later) which will get its own time zone support
• Using Lambda expressions with Qt4 -- Note: this is obsolete with Qt 5 that supports Lambdas directly
• Writing more Readable C++ with C++-11
• A recipe for Tree Tables - a cross between QTableView and QTreeView.

Older Articles

• The Cross compiler series:
  Warning ahead: this broke for me with Qt 4.1.4 and it is not supported by TrollTech/Nokia/Digia, you use it at your own peril!
  1. Building a Cross compiler for Windows on Linux
  2. Cross compiling Qt4/Win itself
     Never really finished this part - it still does not work.
  3. Cross compiling Qt4/Win Apps from Linux

External Tools and Links

• The Qt Programming Framework
• Froglogic: Squish GUI Test Toolkit