dtk concept : creation and implementation

The credit of this post goes to Guillaume Cerutti from Virtual Plants project-team. A modular platform dealing with a given scientific domain is made of some key ingredients (see dtk-introduction post for more details): a set of abstract classes defining the interfaces for the data, the algorithms and the views…

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Deploying Qt based applications without the hassle.

With the advent of the Qt Installer FrameWork (QtIFW), it has never been easier to provide installers for your Qt based applications. Such installers can be either online (i.e. they fetch contents from the internet from repositories during the installation process, thus allowing updates), or offline (i.e. all the contents…

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Trick of the day: prefetching a callback into the QApplication event loop

Qt provide a standard mechanism (aboutToQuit() signal) to insure that a callback is executed at the end of the QApplication event loop. This is typically used to add some cleanup code to your application. Infortunately, Qt does not provide a “aboutToRun()” if you want to execute an initializing code just…

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