The article evaluates Notepad Next as a cross‑platform replacement for Notepad++, detailing its Qt‑based UI, support for multiple languages, workspace folders, macro recording, and easy Linux installation via Flatpak or AppImage, while noting its ongoing development and experimental macOS build.
This article explains how to integrate the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) on both Windows and macOS, covering required libraries, resource paths, main‑process initialization, render‑process creation, message‑loop handling, window adaptation, and version management to ensure a seamless cross‑platform deployment.
This guide explains how to adapt the cross‑platform Chromium Embedded Framework for both Windows and macOS, covering required libraries, resource path configuration, main and renderer process initialization, message‑loop handling, window adaptation, and version differentiation to keep a single code base maintainable.
Qt Bridges is a new technology announced by Qt Group that enables developers to write backend logic in languages like C#, Kotlin, Python, Rust, or Swift while keeping the UI in QML/Qt Quick, simplifying integration and expanding the Qt ecosystem.
The article introduces Notepad Next, a cross‑platform Qt‑based text editor that mimics Notepad++'s interface and features, compares it with Notepadqq, lists its key capabilities, and provides step‑by‑step installation instructions for Linux users.
The article explains why real‑time operating systems (RTOS) may struggle with demanding embedded tasks and shows how switching to an embedded Linux platform, such as STM32MP157 with Qt, can overcome performance bottlenecks and provide richer networking, storage, GUI, and driver support.
This tutorial explains how to change mouse cursor shapes in PyQt5, covering built‑in Qt cursor constants, practical code examples for setting default and hand cursors, and step‑by‑step guidance for creating fully custom cursors using QPixmap and QCursor.
Qt 6.9 introduces major upgrades across graphics, emoji handling, client‑area APIs, SVG animation, order‑independent transparency, performance optimizations, network authorization, HTTP server security, and developer tools, offering developers a richer, faster, and more secure cross‑platform development experience.
This article provides a step‑by‑step guide to using PyQt5 for Python GUI development, covering installation, designer integration, converting .ui files to Python code, basic window structure, QObject concepts, event handling, signal‑slot mechanisms, common widget methods, and practical examples with full code snippets.
This article provides a detailed overview of Python GUI frameworks, introduces PyQt5 and its modules, walks through installation, demonstrates basic and weather‑app examples, and explains how to package the application into an executable using tools such as fbs, PyInstaller, and related utilities.
WeChat has finally released a native Linux client for x86, ARM, and LoongArch architectures, sparking developer enthusiasm, highlighting Qt‑based technical innovations, and addressing long‑standing compatibility challenges that could reshape Linux desktop usage and encourage broader software support.
This article provides an extensive overview of Python GUI development, covering popular frameworks such as PyQt5, PySide6, Tkinter, and others, detailing installation steps, code examples, UI design with Qt Designer, and packaging techniques using tools like fbs to create standalone desktop applications.
This article compares five popular cross‑platform desktop development frameworks—Electron, Flutter, Tauri, React Native, and Qt—examining their backgrounds, key features, performance, UI capabilities, development experience, native integration, community support, use cases, and potential challenges to help developers select the most suitable option for their projects.
An iOS engineer shares the challenges, tools, and insights gained while transitioning to Windows desktop development, covering language hurdles, IDE quirks, UI frameworks, encoding issues, debugging techniques, and broader thoughts on cross‑platform development and the mindset of a true technologist.
This guide explains the essential character set encodings—ANSI, ASCII, GB2312/GBK/GB18030, Unicode planes, UTF‑16, UTF‑32, and UTF‑8—and shows how they are used in MFC and Qt, providing code examples to avoid garbled text in software.
This guide explains common character encodings such as ANSI, ASCII, GB2312/GBK/GB18030, Unicode, UTF‑8, UTF‑16, and UTF‑32, and shows how to handle them in MFC and Qt with practical code examples.
Notepad Next is a cross‑platform, open‑source code editor built with Qt5 that offers many of Notepad++'s features on Linux, Windows, and macOS, and can be installed via Flatpak or AppImage with simple commands.
Deepin has announced Unilang, a self‑developed, general‑purpose programming language designed to efficiently create desktop applications, offering features such as a C++‑friendly object model, Qt bindings, first‑class functions, dynamic typing, FFI, and a minimal runtime without garbage collection.
Ladybird, an open‑source cross‑platform browser created by SerenityOS author Andreas Kling, evolved from a LibWeb debugging tool into a full GUI browser, leveraging SerenityOS’s LibWeb, LibJS, and Qt, and currently runs on Linux, macOS, Windows (WSL) and Android, though still early‑stage.
This article introduces GDI and DXGI screen capture techniques, provides Qt implementations with detailed code examples, compares their performance and visual results, and presents a CPU/GPU usage benchmark, concluding that DXGI offers higher GPU efficiency while both methods have specific trade‑offs.
The article reviews hybrid app development strategies by comparing mobile frameworks such as React Native, Weex and Flutter with PC solutions like Chrome‑based H5, Electron and Qt + CEF, and illustrates a staged migration case study of Taobao Live’s client—from pure Qt to Qt + CEF and finally to Electron + Node—to shorten cycles, simplify third‑party integration, and leverage Chromium’s capabilities.
This article introduces GDI and DXGI screen‑capture techniques, shows how to implement them in Qt with complete code examples, compares their performance and visual results, and discusses practical considerations for teacher‑side applications such as multi‑screen and live‑streaming environments.
Google has opened a Gerrit code review to evaluate Qt as a UI platform for Chromium, revealing early‑stage commits, a brief overview of Qt’s capabilities, and a comparison of the UI frameworks currently used across Chrome’s various operating systems.
An in‑depth look at NetEase Meeting’s desktop client explains how the team selected Qt as the cross‑platform UI framework, details the App‑SDK‑IPC architecture, outlines the SDK’s layered design, and describes C++ and Electron integration methods for building a high‑performance meeting application.
This article explains why Chinese characters become garbled on Windows when using Qt or Cocos2d‑x, explores ASCII, GBK, Unicode, UTF‑8 and ANSI encodings, shows how Visual Studio misdetects UTF‑8 files, and provides step‑by‑step solutions to eliminate the issue permanently.
This tutorial walks you through creating a Qt‑based application launcher using QML and C++, covering project setup, parsing Linux .desktop files, designing a swipeable UI, displaying icons, handling selection, and launching applications via QProcess.
This article chronicles the step‑by‑step evolution of Kuaishou's special‑effects authoring tool—from early QWidget layouts through QML redesign, then JSON/Lua configuration, and finally dynamic QML loading—highlighting how each stage reduced code size, improved developer efficiency, and enabled seamless hot updates without app releases.
This guide shows how to compile Flameshot on Ubuntu 16.04, integrate the qxtglobalshortcut5 library, register a custom global shortcut (e.g., Ctrl+F5), and use the enhanced tool while noting remaining limitations such as focus‑loss windows and input‑method support.
RedisDesktopManager 2020.1 introduces enhanced Pickle formatting for NumPy and pandas objects, adds the ability to save values to files, and fixes several bugs including dark‑mode and formatter issues, while continuing to support fast, cross‑platform Redis management via SSH tunnels.
Silq, a new high‑level quantum programming language from ETH Zurich, promises more compact, faster, and easier‑to‑understand code than existing languages like Q#, reducing code size by 44% and automatically handling error‑prone garbage collection, thereby advancing quantum software development.
This article provides a detailed, step‑by‑step explanation of Qt's signals‑and‑slots system, covering its core concepts, the role of the Meta‑Object Compiler (moc), generated code structures, connection types, and runtime activation, illustrated with a concrete demo project and reference images.
This article walks through the development of PyReadon, a Python‑based PDF reader that supports adding, deleting, reading, and tracking multiple books, with left‑click page turning and persistent storage using SQLite.
