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With every new release, the size of Qt SDK is increasing. Given the slow and often unreliable BSNL Internet connection @ work (and home), it is not a good idea to download new releases using a browser or an FTP…
When you open a GCF project in Qt Creator, you will notice that the project tree on the left hand side also shows GUIXML files against each component and the global ComponentLoaderComponent.xml (CLC for short) file. The CLC file describes…
Over the past few weeks we have been researching on Qt Creator, its architecture and plugin model. In a previous blog my colleague JK has written about a document that we wrote on Qt Creator plugins. This week (ie yesterday)…
A feature that has been requested the most over the past few months is the code generator. I have personally received several emails from VTK Designer 2 users asking about the code generator that existed in the 1.x series but…
The next version (2.3) of GCF should (ideally) have a plugin for Qt Creator that will make creation and maintenance of GCF applications with Qt Creator easy. We started our progress towards that end by studying Qt Creator and understanding…
GCF 2.2 is now released. The 2.2 release is an effort of 8 months, hope you like it. Key Highlights Software Updater Framework – GCF now includes a software updater framework that can be activated to have your applications automatically…
How easy it is to make signal/slot connections between local and remote objects 🙂 GCF::RemoteAppAccessPoint* rap = …. GCF::RemoteObject* remoteObject = rap->getRemoteObject(“ComponentName.ObjectName”); GCF::connect(remoteObject, SIGNAL(someSignal(int,char,QString,QPixmap)), localObjectPtr, SLOT(someSlot(int,char,QString,QPixmap))); Isnt this sweet 🙂
Qt provides a QDirModel class that makes it easy to display directory structures in a view. For a project that we are working on, we needed a model that would make it easy to display the structure of a FTP…
The article on “Adding Components for VTK Designer” has now been updated to provide information about how new components can be provided via VTK Designer’s “Software Updater”, which is designed using GCF. The updated document can be downloaded from here…
The article I talked about yesterday now has another section that talks about extending VTK Designer by adding more meaning features. This means we make use of one or more existing components in VTK Designer and mash-up a totally new…
A document titlted “Adding Components to VTK Designer” has been long overdue. So here it is. The article explains how to write simple components and components that provide more visualization algorithms for use within the pipeline. It is still very…
Taray Technologies India, a EDA solutions products and solutions provider in India has released its 7Circuits product. The product’s development began in early 2006 and reached 1.0 stage sometime last year. Over the last year or so Taray’s team of…
This week we removed all traces of Menu Strip (which was never ribbon) from the GCF code. VTK Designer now has no menu-strip as well. We did however reuse the ActionContainer stuff to make the pull-down menus look a little…
Prof. M. B. Patil of IIT Bombay has been conducting workshops on SequelGUI at several engineering colleges and universities over the past few months. SequelGUI is a product that we developed for IIT Bombay using GCF. It is basically a…