[Kde-announce-apps] qmeterslib 0.5

[giuseppe massimo bertani]

Name: qmeterslib
Version: 0.5
Type: Scientific
Depend: Qt 3.x
License: GPL
Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/gmbertani
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=52361

Description:
 The qmeters library provides a highly
customizable Qt widget able to create complex
analog/dial widgets (multiple scales, multiple
needles, customizable needles and backgrounds).

The idea behind qmeters is a "container" widget
QAnalogMeter that initially is empty.
The developer must create also one or more
instances of a scale (clock or sector) and one
or more instance of index/needle (clock, donut,
pie). QAnalogMeter allow to insert these
instances into the container, so they can appear
to the user as unique analog instrument
wired around the same pivot. By acting on the
widget sizes it's possible to show an
analog instrument with more coaxial scales and
indexes.

The versions up to 0.4 were built ad kdevelop
project, while starting from 0.5 the
project source tree is managed with QMAKE, leaving
out any KDE dependence.

The library documentation is in the code. As
example, I included a silly demo application.
To build it, you first need to build the library:
go into the directory qmetersdemo/src/library
and run "qmake ; make". You could perform also a
"make install" at the end; this is not mandatory
to compile the demo, but it is needed to run it.
Then go back to qmetersdemo directory and issue
"qmake ; make" again. This shoud generate a 
"qmetersdemo" application in the same directory.

Good luck. If you find this code useful, please
consider to send me a mail. It costs almost
nothing
to you, but it's still appreciated by my ego ;-) 



Giuseppe Massimo Bertani
gmbertani at users.sourceforge.net