MathML editor using Qt support for MathML

I decided to give the MML widget a try to create an example for MathML rendering: display a mathematical formula from the description contained in an XML file. This is a component available from Qt solutions (see my previous post about them) to enhance the by itself long list of classes and modules already available in Qt. For more information about the MathML standard, you may read this MathML introduction

Extending QTranslator

Although internationalization with Qt has very good tools to deal with translations inside an application, I was posed with the requirement to use existing files with proprietary format for the actual translated strings.

Qt Solutions, please help yourself

Are you aware that Nokia has launched Qt Solutions? Please refer to the Qt Solutions Catalog and you'll be surprised about the components and tools available there that can be used along Qt just to improve and enhance the cross-platform applications you develop.

My first contribution to Qt

And it finally happened! I've just sent my first code contribution to the Qt open repository. Now I'm waiting for them to approve (or eventually reject, you never know) my submission which is based on the code I presented in a previous blog.

Persistent logging (for debug purposes)

Many of us, Qt developers, resort to qDebug() (and the companion qWarning(), qCritical() and qFatal() functions) to write out debugging and tracing information along the flow of our application.

Most of the time, it's just a question of sending the desired message (a QtMsgType value) to the output stream provided by qDebug():

qDebug() << "Date: " << QDate::currentDate();

Moreover, the streaming operator << can be extended to provide support for custom types, for instance:

QDebug operator<<(QDebug dbg, const Circle &c)
{
    dbg.nospace() << "Radius: " << c.radius();
    return dbg.space();
}

Make it persistent
What if we need to get a copy of all the debug messages thrown by the application during a debugging session?

Interesting testing

QTestLib is a framework provided by Nokia to create unit tests for applications developed using Qt.

It's a lightweight library, with several features like test initialization and cleanup, benchmarking and data driven testing. One thing it provides I found very useful it's the ability to simulate GUI events, both clicking a sequence of keys or generating mouse events (clicking, double clicking, moving) .

Coding style template for Qt Eclipse Integration

While reading a recent post in Qt Labs Blogs regarding the S60 branch, they mentioned the code style, and specifically a Qt_Code_Style.xml template for using with the Carbide IDE. As it turns out, Carbide is Eclipse-based, so I decided to download and give it a try as I develop Qt apps using Eclipse + CDT + Qt Eclipse Integration.

I'm really happy that now I can comply with the Qt coding style easier, with assistance from the IDE itself.

To install the template, just from within Eclipse click Window > Preferences... > C/C++ > Code Style and import the file you just downloaded.