Heise iX: QtQuick article, KDAB whitepaper; Qt Containers update

Together with my fellow KDABians Stephen Kelly and Volker Krause, I wrote a whitepaper on QtQuick usage in the KOMO project. From the whitepaper:

Developing a serious and large application from scratch, or from an existing desktop application, presents a different set of challenges compared to your normal smart-phone ‘app’. Portability to different platforms, and long-term maintainability in the face of ever-changing mobile target platforms suddenly come into play. This paper attempts to summarize the experience we gathered using the new declarative GUI framework, QtQuick, in this project.

Unfortunately, recent events (read: Tizen) have already invalidated much of the content in the supplemental box on the future of Qt, but that’s the bane of everyone writing about Qt’s future these days…

Get the English version (with slightly more details) at http://www.kdab.com/whitepapers, or read the German version (with better editing) in the current print issue of German computer magazine iX: http://www.heise.de/ix/inhalt/2011/11/114/.

In other news: I’ve updated “Understand the Qt Containers” with a discussion of the differences between STL and Qt containers regarding size types, associative container insertions, and error handling. I also mention QT_STRICT_ITERATORS now.

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