Category: Technical
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I am speaking @ FOSS.IN/2009
Just saw that my talk on “Writing Plugins for Qt Creator” is selected as Tech Talk (Hacker session) at FOSS.IN 2009. The event is going to be between 1st and 5th of December. The last time I gave a talk @ FOSS.IN was in 2007, nice to get back to it after 2 years 🙂…
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The Men Who Stare at Goats
http://www.themenwhostareatgoatsmovie.com/ The movie seems very interesting!
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Downloading Qt SDKs..
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 client. Recently we bought a Mac at work and I have been trying hard for…
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GUIXML Editor in Qt Creator
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 the order of loading of components. Each component’s GUIXML file describes the GUI of the…
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GCF – Qt Creator Integration
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) we started working on a plugin for Qt Creator called GCFSupport. The idea behind the…
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VTK Designer + Code Generator
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 has magically disappeared in the 2.x series. Since then we invested some efforts in getting…
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Document on Writing plugins for Qt Creator
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 how plugins for it can be written. The result of that effort is a small…
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GCF 2.2 Released
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 download and install updates. GCF provides tools for you to create updates that you can…
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Remote Signal/Slot connections
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 🙂
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FtpDirModel
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 directory. Thats exactly what we have in FtpDirModel right now. Using the FtpDirModel class is…
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“Adding Components for VTK Designer” – Updated
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 http://www.vcreatelogic.com/resources/downloads/
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Extending VTK Designer
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 functionality. Specifically the article talks about adding an “Export to VRML” feature to VTK Designer.…
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Adding Components to VTK Designer
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 much a draft, but usable I hope.
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Taray releases 7Circuits, signs an OEM deal with Cadence
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 engineers fine-tuned their 7Circuits product, customized it and integrated it with several toolchains. The latest…
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VTK Designer has no menu-strip
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 bit different. Over the next few weeks we need to cleanup the new menu system…