Re: [Interest] Micro$oft finally consumes Nokia

2013-09-03 Thread Dan White
And ain’t we all glad that this happened two years ago ? http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/1337211/nokia-sells-qt And this is an interesting side-note: http://slashdot.org/submission/2925785/nokia-purchase-marks-end-of-microsofts-signature-strategy On Sep 3, 2013, at 7:27 PM, Joseph Crowe

Re: [Interest] Combine PDF files into a single PDF File

2013-03-29 Thread Dan White
This might also be of interest: http://doc.qt.digia.com/qq/qq27-poppler.html On Mar 29, 2013, at 10:21 AM, warg...@gmx.de wrote: > > Wow, thank you. I did not now of this API. Not that I need it _now_, but > it certainly will come handy sooner or later. > > Guido > >> Also, note that there is

Re: [Interest] A suggestion about replacing signals, actions and slots

2012-12-27 Thread Dan White
Now read this, please : http://www.qtcentre.org/threads/51888-using-function-pointers-and-callback-functions “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) - Original Mes

Re: [Interest] Getting a hostname given the IP Address

2012-10-24 Thread Dan White
On Linux, if you have no DNS, you can use /etc/hosts I do not know if there is a Windows equivalent. “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) - Original Message

Re: [Interest] query about QT textbooks

2012-04-11 Thread Dan White
My response to your question is a request for more details about your current abilities as a software developer. What platforms and languages (compiled, scripted, anything that can run) are you comfortable and experienced with ? The older versions of Qt were exclusively C++, so if you did not k

Re: [Interest] [OT] Re: Database in LINUX application in windows

2012-02-16 Thread Dan White
In an honest effort to try to be helpful, I offer up two links to the group: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html And a milder form of STFW: http://lmgtfy.com/ “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe i

Re: [Interest] QtSVG deprecated

2012-01-09 Thread Dan White
Thiago ! Contact me off-list, please. (or I will when I get home and dig your address out of my mailing list archives) I might be willing to volunteer to maintain this piece. One motivation is that I use it in a project of mine and transitioning to QtWebKit just for the SVG may cause excessive bl