Thou shalt programme
First version of the lightweight and easy to use MSSQL Server Browser Lite was released today. Currently it supports easy table browsing and of course all commands as long as you intend to work with commands.
You can download MSSQL Browser Lite from its official download page and please don’t forget to let me know of any bugs or issues you may find.
To be able read PDF files in your Qt applications you can use any 3rd party libraries but my choice is to use Adobe Acrobat Reader ActiveX in a QAxWidget object. The approach is quite simple as long as you have Acrobat Reader ActiveX installed on your computer.
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Qt provides QSplashScreen class in case you want to have a splash screen for your application without any efforts. You can use the approach below to add an splash screen image of your choice using QSplashScreen and QPixmap classes that stays for 1 second and then disappears.
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You can use the following approach to get a Window‘s Handle in Qt. This can be useful in case you need to call a Windows API (Win32 API) function that is not implemented in Qt or for any other purposes.
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This question comes up a lot and is sometimes very confusing but if you just pay attention for a few seconds you’ll get past this forever, I promise you.
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The same as standard C String, for this also you can go through standard C++ as shown below:
Let’s say you have a QString, like this:
QString s = "www.amin-ahmadi.com";First convert it to std::wstring and then use its c_str method, like this:
s.toStdWString().c_str()
The best solution for this would be to go through standard C++ and it means this:
Let’s say you have a QString, like this:
QString s = "www.amin-ahmadi.com";First convert it to std::string and then use its c_str method, like this:
s.toStdString().c_str()
By default every window you create has a rectangular shape but in case you want to have a window which is non-rectangular (such as ellipse or triangle or any shape you prefer) then you can use the approach below.
Continue reading “How to Create Custom Shaped Windows in Qt”If you have tried this then you have definitely noticed that it becomes very annoying when you want to use QScroller::grabGesture with QDialogs that are opened using exec and have used QScroller::grabGesture in the calling (parent) window or dialog.
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Today I released the first version of Cardiograph program. It is a program that allows you to measure (monitor) your heart rate using your computer’s webcam. It is designed to be simple and accurate. Currently only Windows is supported but hopefully more operating systems will be supported in the future.
Head to Cardiograph Official Page to download and try it for yourself.
Below are screenshots of Cardiograph in action:
Let me know if you face any issues.