Archive for the ‘Qt’ Category

guitone 1.0rc1 released

Monday, February 15th, 2010

I'm proud to announce the immediate release of guitone-1.0rc1. This is the first release in a series of smaller releases which aims at the stabilization of the guitone codebase. Many (if not most) of the features one would consider needed for a "1.0" release have been implemented, a couple of ...

SSL Verification with Qt and a custom CA certificate

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

So I wanted to make my application updater for guitone SSL-aware the other day. The server setup was an easy job: Add the new domain (guitone.thomaskeller.biz) to cacert.org, create a new certificate request with the new SubjectAltName (and all the other, existing alternative names - a procedure where this script ...

Qt Creator

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Wow, I absolutely did not see this coming - finally the Trolls^WNokians offer a lean and nice cross-platform IDE for Qt which incorporates all other Qt tools and a gdb frontend! Formerly dubbed "Project Greenhouse" the baby just got a new name and fancy logo: Qt Creator. There is a ...

Qt Framework introduction

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

I did a small workshop on Qt today in my company, mainly to introduce the framework to my fellow developers. I think I did a good job, because I've seen the glow in their eyes while presenting the graphics view demos and the 2d paint engine amongst many other things. Anyways, ...

guitone 0.8 released – spring time is hacking time!

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

guitone 0.8 has been released today. Major improvements happened under the hood, the outstanding changes are: guitone is now licensed under GNU GPL Version 3 or later. Please note that you're now only allowed to legally distribute binaries which you've built with Qt 4.3.4 or later, since earlier versions ...

Hide Qt GUI applications from the Mac OS X dock and menu

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Starting with Qt 4.4 which was released a few days ago Qt now honors the <key>LSUIElement</key> <string>1</string> setting in the Info.plist file of the application bundle. This is particularily useful to create bundled application which should not pop up in the global dock or menu, f.e. daemons which run in the background or ...

Should Trolltech make their products support GPLv3?

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Since the GNU General Public License v3 had been released last week I'm actively thinking about switching the license for some of my projects, f.e. guitone, which are currently GPLv2 "or later". The main reason for doing this for me personally is to protect my software even better from any ...

Projects, projects, projects!

Monday, July 9th, 2007

Last week my copy of Anno 1701 for the Nintendo DS dropped in and I instantly remembered the happy days when I played the original version for the PC, Anno 1602. While the gameplay is pretty much the same, graphics have been improved a bit and the product circuits got ...