As many of you may already know, a few minutes ago we pushed a Qt 4.7 Release Candidate (RC). Qt 4.7 is a great step forward with regard to performance and the introduction of Qt Quick, and with Qt 4.7 we will see Qt applications run faster and smother than ever before.
With the release of Qt 4.7 including Qt Quick, you will immediately gain access to powerful features for building fluid, animated applications and UIs. Qt Quick is made up of three pieces: (1) the QML language and (2) the QtDeclarative module in the Qt framework, and (3) Qt Quick tooling components in Qt Creator.
Today´s RC, and the final Qt 4.7 release, will bring the first two pieces of Qt Quick. With the release of Qt Creator 2.1 in the fourth quarter of this year, you will get access to a built out set of tooling to make the Qt Quick experience much richer and easier – completing the picture. Snapshots of Qt Creator 2.1 will be made available shortly.
We look forward to your feedback and we encourage you to try out Qt Quick!
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Qt Quick is fantastic
Being a big fan of Qt and an avid reader of this blog I feel obligated to inform you that it is annoying with these ad-like blog posts. Developer posts only please – We are already fans!
Have QT 4.7 symbian signed sys file is available? Is there any one who knows where i can get the symbian signed file.
+1 for Thomas’ comment. Already this blog has become more of a ‘release announcement’ blog as opposed to the technical blog. And now articles are filled with the same old ‘fluid’, ‘faster’, ‘smoother’ hashed over and over again. Can we stop this please? (Please don’t take this personally, it’s applicable to all those who blog here)
@Thomas: I actually had a piece of information to share with this post: the fact that we don’t yet have the tooling component of Qt Quick in Qt 4.7 or in the SDK that will be released with Qt 4.7.0, but you’ll have to wait for Creator 2.1. Thanks for the feedback, I’ll have to pay attention that my tone of voice won’t get into the way of conveying the actual message
@Harry: please download the binary installer for Symbian from http://qt.nokia.com/developer/qt-qtcreator-prerelease#download and run it. You should then find the Qt 4.7 sis file in the Qt installation directory. See http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7-snapshot/install-symbian-installer.html for more information. (I’m not 100% sure if the sis is Symbian signed however, rather than just Nokia signed.)
I would like to use QML for development of desktop application.
I think it may not be a good idea to use QML completely to implement QMainWindow based application. (Do you agree? ) If we want to fill up workspace are with QML, should we use qmlviewer + QMainWindow? Will it be a performance issue? Any comment will be very helpful for me to decide a new development direction. Thanks.
@Jin: qmlviewer isn’t really meant for deployment, so you most probably want to write your own C++ app that then includes a QDeclarativeView. What to do then with QWidgets and what with QML depends largely on your requirements
Btw the qt-qml mailing list (http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-qml) or the developer.qt.nokia.com forum (http://developer.qt.nokia.com/forums/viewforum/12/) is a better place to ask such questions.
and when qt 4.7 is planned to be finally released?
When is the final release for Qt v4.7.0 and Qt v4.7.1 expected?
Is Qt 4.7 applicable to Linux as well?. If not when it is available. Thx
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