So the preview of Qt for Java, called Qt Jambi, is finally out. Its
been in the works for a few months now and I think its taken really
nice shape. Its all available in on the trolltech website, here.

What we have so far is most of the Qt core modules available, Core,
Gui, OpenGL and Sql based on Qt 4.1.3. In addition to the Qt libraries
we also have UIC for Java, called Juic so you can use Designer to
design GUI’s. We intend to base the final version on Qt 4.2 which
means we’ll have access to all the new things in Qt 4.2, such as
the QGraphicsView.

The package is a binary package for now, just because we want it to be
as simple as possible. It is our intention to make this an open source
in the end, as you can see in the FAQ.

The package contains a small demos and examples launcher. Now since
I’m one of the Arthur guys, I had to write a custom style for this,
using some of the nice features we have in QPainter. Of course in
“Trolltech Green”.

One of the demos in the package is an image viewer, which we wrote as
a showcase for the white paper. We make use of Queued Connections for
threaded pixmap loading, some nice item views features and more.

And finally, we did an integration of Qt Designer for Eclipse and
embedded Juic as a build tool so its possible make use of all those
nice Eclipse features along side with Qt Jambi, like refactoring and
incremental building.

Hope you enjoy it!

For those of you who don’t have the patience to watch Qt compile, we released binaries of the current 4.2 snapshots. You can download them from our download pages. Note that this is an unstable and unsupported release.

We didn’t put out a ChangeLog of what happened since 4.2 Technology Preview 1. The most significant changes are the merging of QMessageBox and QMessageBoxEx and updates to QtDBus. There is a new neat D-BUS viewer demo that comes with its own D-BUS model. This model can be used to access a D-BUS service via Qt’s Model/View API and also display it in any tree view.

For those of you who are disappointed that the asteroid game crashes: The fix didn’t make it into the binary, I’m afraid you have to compile Qt yourself to play it, or fall back to Tetrix.

… is over, and I slept for roughly 12 hours. Now that I’m refreshed, I could go back coding for another week I’ll put results of the accessibility hacking up soon, meanwhile, enjoy some pictures and a movie I took from the top of the nearest hill.

A big thanks goes to the well-known and internationally renown Hamar Arbeiderblad (local newspaper for central Norway) for sending a journalist:

Aaron was quite convincing and we even made it to the front page. The full article titled “Building the Future of Computing in Trysil” is unfortunately pay-per-view only.

Finally, the obligatory group picture:

… so now it’s almost over. Most people left today. You could tell that the meeting is really over when it started raining and storming and the power failed a few times in the afternoon. The first outage came when we were right in the supermarket buying some last groceries and suddenly the entire supermarket went dark.

Looking back I think we’ve been incredibly lucky as we’ve had an entire week of absolutely beautiful wheather with plenty of sun. We’ve also been lucky with the food, since the catering that we ordered once a day was good, with decent vegetarian dishes and excellent salmon on tuesday. Add a stable network connection, a beautiful scenery, a stylish cabin with really comfortable sofas and a sauna and you have the perfect ingredients to keep up motivation. And in fact we’ve been very productive, with a good mixture of meetings, bugfixing/porting to DBus, Qt4, new kdelibs and research on new things, such as a new composition manager in kwin, a new API for dynamic user interfaces in plugin based applications and QGraphicsView rendering in kpat! And stay tuned for upcoming announcements of other things that happened here…

At this point it’s also time for a big thank you! to Thiago, who spent a considerable amount of time preparing and organizing/preparing the meeting and writing kick-ass Qt bindings for DBus but in the end unfortunately couldn’t make it to Trysil.