http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs the ramblings of engineers Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:11:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A while back we announced the research project Qt Jambi AWT Bridge which allows you to mix AWT/Swing components and Qt widgets in the same window on Windows and Linux. There were a few issues with the original version. The main problems were the fact that your window would be ... http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/07/23/a-sturdier-bridge-still-troubled-water-underneath/ Distorting the geometry of an image with a specific periodic pattern can give the illusion of being underwater. This trick was for example employed in the very first version of Quake, either to oscillate the water surface or to modify the view when you jump inside the water. Apparently, it ... http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/07/13/underwater-effect/ Hi there. Introducing myself, my name is Friedemann Kleint, and I am one of the trolls hacking away at Qt Designer at the Berlin Office. Today, I would like to draw your attention to the QFormLayout class. This is a special layout class suited to the common descriptive label - control ... http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/07/07/usage-of-the-qformlayout/ Time for another fresh example for the Graphics Dojo. This time I present a small tool that does nothing but showing the famous HSV cylinder. To give some realism, subtle blurred reflection is also added but can be easily disabled. Manual full-scene anti-aliasing is provided by the usual multisampling approach. ... http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/07/05/let-there-be-color/ Hi there. This is my first blog post, so I guess introductions are in order; My name is Henrik Hartz, and work as a Specialist with Product Management in Troll^W Qt Software. In Product Management I do all kinds of stuff, ranging from working with requirements, specifications, product releases, meeting ... http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/07/03/putting-qtwebkit-to-use-with-google-maps/ After 4.4.0 was out I set aside some time to go though the feature requests for QTabBar & QTabWidget. After making a list of the most voted for suggestions I have implemented some features that will be in 4.5.0 that should make some developers happy. In the past ten years ... http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/07/02/some-qtabbar-qtabwidget-love/ If you play games like Rainbox Six: Vegas or watch movies like Elephant Dream, you will notice the use of the so-called Bloom effect. In fact, Vegas is so bright and surrealist that this game becomes known for its Bloom overuse. In this Graphics Dojo example, I would like to show ... http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/06/29/bloom-effect/ To breathe some new life into the graphics dojo, here's an example of how to put widgets on top of an OpenGL scene using QGraphicsView. By leveraging the synergy (tounge in cheek) of the OpenGL module and graphics view's in 4.4 new widget capabilities, the long lacking feature of putting ... http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/06/27/accelerate-your-widgets-with-opengl/ The Wide Finder Project is an informal parallel programming competition where the task is to compute web site statistcs from a 218-million line access log. Each entry will be benchmarked on a Sun T2000 with support for 32 hardware threads, giving lots of opportunities for parallel processing. What makes this really ... http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/06/27/wide-finding/ After many moons, I have started to work again on my personal project, Gutenbrowser. It is in need of much maintenance and love. Since Qt finally has a good webview, QWebView, I can finally start working towards version 1.0! With very little work, gutenbrowser can now show Gutenberg Project etexts that ... http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/06/23/qtwebkit-and-gutenbrowser/