[dot] Trolltech Releases First Qt 4 Technology Preview

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From: binner <>
Dept: now-don't-caring-about-bad-summer-anymore
Date: Thursday 08/Jul/2004, @18:19

Trolltech Releases First Qt 4 Technology Preview
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   Trolltech [http://www.trolltech.com/] has announced the availability
of the first Qt 4 Technical Preview
[http://www.trolltech.com/newsroom/announcements/00000169.html]. Qt 4,
the next major release of the popular cross-platform C++ application
framework which KDE is based on, is scheduled for final release in late
Q1, 2005. Read the online documentation
[http://doc.trolltech.com/4.0/tech-preview.html] or directly start the
download
[ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source/qt-x11-preview-4.0.0-tp1.tar.bz2 ].

     Five new technologies, codenamed Arthur, Scribe, Interview, Tulip,
and Mainwindow are being incorporated into the next major version of Qt
4.0. The technologies are:
    * Arthur: The new painting framework
    * Scribe: The Unicode text renderer with a public API for performing
      low-level text layout
    * Interview: A model/view architecture for item views
    * Tulip: A new set of template container classes
    * Mainwindow: A modern action-based mainwindow/toolbar/menu and
      docking architecture


     This is a preview of some of the Qt 4 libraries, not of the entire
application development framework. Most notably, new versions of Qt
Designer and Qt Linguist are not included. The Technology Preview is
meant to be tested on a limited set of platforms only.

     Qt 4 still is in a very active state of development. Not everything
is ready for prime time, and there are significant omissions. Most
importantly, this Technology Preview is not meant to be used in
production code or even for application development. Not all backwards
compatibility functionality is in place yet but you're able to write
small programs.