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In this article I am going to describe how to get the title of the window which has the focus, or in other word is currently active. To be able to achieve this in Qt/C++ you need to use the operating system API functions, in this case Win32 API.
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You can use the following snippet to make your MainWindow or any other window always on top:
setWindowFlags(windowFlags() | Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint);Just insert it in your window’s constructor function.
In this article I am going to describe the required steps needed for accessing Android Camera (or Default Camera Interface) using Qt. Unfortunately OpenCV does not provide a reliable way of connecting to Camera in Android so you have go for a method like this if you intend to write an Android application which uses OpenCV and Qt together. I strongly recommend that you should first read this article (which describes how to access Android Gallery from Qt) and also this article (which shows how to mix Java and C++ code in Qt) and then return here because I will be assuming that you are familiar with those processes. So if you can already access Android Gallery using Qt then continue reading the steps described below.
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There are scenarios where you would need to find the sum or the average of all values in a QByteArray. This can specially happen if you are trying to send data using COM ports to devices that require the average or sum (or a similar combination) of all elements in order to check the integrity of data.
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Qt Framework implements many convenience functions inside QByteArray for quickly handling of raw data. One of the widely used encoding methods is Base64 and if you’re with Qt, you can easily convert any string (QString) to/from Base64.
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You can convert QBuffer to QString using buffer function of the QBuffer. Here is how you can do it.
QBuffer b;
b.open(QBuffer::ReadWrite);
b.write("http://amin-ahmadi.com");
QString str = b.buffer();
qDebug() << str; // "http://amin-ahmadi.com"
b.close();
Qt Framework includes a class called QBuffer that can be used to access a QByteArray (internal QByteArray to be precise) as if it is a file. So you can use Stream readers and writers to access data in it similar to a QFile.
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You might have come across the following (Not Acceptable) error when trying to download files from some websites using Qt. This error message is generated by ModSecurity and it usually means that for some reason the web server does not allow downloading of the file using the method you are trying. In my case it was because of the User-Agent Header set to a value not allowed by the server. So here is how I fixed it:
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You can create a QPixmap and convert it to QImage if you just want to have a QImage for modification and manipulation. Here, you can use the following code to achieve this:
int width = 100;
int height = 200;
QImage image = QPixmap(width, height).toImage();
RAW, or to put it in terms of file extension, CR2 and CRW files are the images produced using Canon EOS cameras. A RAW photo, as it appears from it’s name, is the raw format of the image, meaning it contains the exact binary data that was recorded by a specific camera when the photo was taken.
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