Backgrounds, Pseudo states – Qt 4.3 Style Sheets

Since I will be posting lot of Style sheets, I figured this is about the right time to point out that Qt 4.3 Designer has a built-in CSS Syntax validator and highlighter. Just right click on any widget and “Edit Stylesheet…”. (screenshot here.) Background Qt 4.3 introduces support for background images in any QAbstractScrollArea derivative. […]

4.3.0 beta binaries

Open Source Open Source binaries are now available at ftp://ftp.troll.no/qt/source There have been a couple of reports of compilation failing with MinGW. You can solve this in two ways – Either upgrade your Win32 API headers to atleast 3.7 OR use the binary package which comes with a fix for the compilation. Note that you […]

System tray update

Thanks to some great work by Sam Magnuson, QSystemTrayIcon::showMessage() will support Growl on the mac in Qt 4.3. With this change, supportsMessages() no longer returns false on any of our desktop platforms. Here’s the obligatory screenshot: Note that the documentation for showMessage() states that messages are not guaranteed to be displayed. As a result, we […]