By Andrew Liszewski on Toyland, shared by Andrew Liszewski to Gizmodo
When it comes to home made lightsabers—a popular pastime for Star Wars fans—…
By Andrew Liszewski on Toyland, shared by Andrew Liszewski to Gizmodo
When it comes to home made lightsabers—a popular pastime for Star Wars fans—…
By Katie Collins Amazon’s head of digital music says his biggest challenge is reminding Prime customers they’ve already paid for it.
By Mitch Curtis
Since announcing research on Qt Quick Controls optimized for embedded use, we’ve made good progress towards achieving feature parity with the original Qt Quick Controls. We’ve also added some new controls that didn’t exist (Drawer, RangeSlider, and SwipeView, to name a few).
The previous blog post cited performance reasons as the motivation for having one fixed style. However, we have found a way to make multiple styles available without sacrificing performance. So far, two new styles have been merged, implementing both Google’s Material Design and Microsoft’s Universal Design.
Material style
Universal style
It’s important to note that these styles are not claiming to be native, but instead a 100% cross-platform implementation of the Material and Universal design guidelines. For example, the Material style does not adapt to any Sony or Samsung theme on Android. You can run these styles on any platform and they will look more or less identical.
We’re also working on a neutral, optimised base style, and a fancier “Qt” style, both in cooperation with our designers.
Earlier, we talked about separating the C++ logic and the visual QML layer. Thanks to the feedback from our users, we have realized the power of a pure C++ logic layer and have decided to expose it separately for those wanting to build their own custom user experience. We’ve named this layer “templates”. A template is the foundation of a control. They encapsulate the behaviour of controls and provide an interface for styles to do their thing, allowing a true separation of concerns. For an introduction to this concept, take a look at the following video taken from the 2015 Qt World Summit:
The styling system now uses a technique similar to file selectors to choose which style to load at application startup. There are currently two ways to choose the application style:
QT_LABS_CONTROLS_STYLE=universal
-style material
A manifest file for specifying the preferred style and style-specific attributes is also being considered as a future addition.
The more complex beasts like TableView and TreeView are on our to-do list. We realise that these are some of the most important controls, remaining quite relevant even on touch devices. Given the great opportunity that we have (to completely redesign all of the controls), we’d like to take the time to design these particular controls to be as lean as …read more
Source:: http://blog.qt.io/blog/2015/11/23/qt-quick-controls-re-engineered-status-update/
By Richard Trenholm After “Daredevil”, the second collaboration between Marvel and Netflix takes the superhero and private eye genres in a horrifying new direction.
By Richard Trenholm After “Daredevil”, the second collaboration between Marvel and Netflix takes the superhero and private eye genres in a horrifying new direction.
By Hugh Hunt
The V-3 “supergun” was meant to win the war for Germany. In 1943, for the first time since World War II began, Hitler was on the back foot. Allied bombs were devastating German cities and the Fuhrer was rattled. His proposed V-3 cannon would be the biggest gun the world had seen.
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By Michelle Starr A team of researchers has created living rose plants with electronic circuits threaded through their veins.
By Chris Mills
During the ongoing anti-terror lockdown in Brussels, police have been asking for ‘radio silence’ from the press and social media, to help their operations. Twitter users in the city haven’t stopped tweeting: they’re just using cats instead of real information
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