http://blog.forwardbias.in The Official Blog of ForwardBias Technologies Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:28:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I managed to get my hands on the N900 after a long long wait. But the path to getting the device was long and tragic. Here's the story. Back at foss.in (Dec 1st week 2009), I heard of a contest held by the Nokia maemo-bangalore team.  The sexy 3d pic on ... http://blog.forwardbias.in/2010/02/maemo-bangalore-foss-n900-contest.html Over the past couple of months, I have been working losing sleep over getting Flash to work in QGraphicsView on all platforms.  The good news is that flash now works in QGV on all platforms. Yes, that means that not only can QGV display Flash but can also rotate and transform ... http://blog.forwardbias.in/2009/12/flash-in-qgraphicsview.html (A very late update on DevDays 2009 SFO. I am one lazy blogger) In an unexpected twist of events, I ended up attending Qt Developer Days at SFO. I had just one week to get my visa, flight and hotel bookings in place, so I wasn't too hopeful. Amazingly, I got ... http://blog.forwardbias.in/2009/11/qt-devdays-2009-sfo.html Final part of my ~/research cleanup 1. slidelistviewselection - A widget in which item selection moves with animation from one item to another. I made this initially for an embedded device on which itemviews was too heavy. 2. skinnable mediaplayer - An example that shows how to create a skinnable Qt app ... http://blog.forwardbias.in/2009/11/research-cleanup-part-2.html A habit that I picked up from my job at Trolltech was to put all my experimental code in a directory called research. Each project gets its own sub-directory there. We used to also have a similarly named folder in p4 depot and it was totally unmanageable. I wonder what ... http://blog.forwardbias.in/2009/10/research-cleanup.html When consulting for Hyves, we wanted a light-weight widget that displays html and animated gifs (for smileys) for the chat client and for tooltips. The option to use Qt/WebKit was out since we intended to create numerous instances of this widget (it consumed lots of memory) and the rendering was not ... http://blog.forwardbias.in/2009/09/displaying-html-with-animated-gifs.html There are situations where you don't want text to be selected and images to be dragged in your QWebView (See my previous post). Qt does not provide support out of the box, but this is fairly straightforward to do. I wrote a quick hack to demonstrate, get it here. http://blog.forwardbias.in/2009/09/non-selectable-qwebview.html Almost a year back, I was looking for a maintainer for kdocker. I had practically given up, when out of the blue John contacted me to be the new maintainer. What more, he had already ported it Qt4! That made handing over maintainership to him a no-brainer :) Also, KDocker is now moved ... http://blog.forwardbias.in/2009/09/kdocker-4-0-released.html Integrating the web into desktop apps is now incredibly easy thanks to Qt WebKit.  Qt WebKit also allows us to embed any Qt widget inside the html. This feature makes it extremely tempting to develop full blown desktop applications using Qt WebKit - your interface is entirely designed using html/css ... http://blog.forwardbias.in/2009/09/side-effects-of-using-qtwebkit-for-desktop-apps.html Late last year, I blogged about the beta release of Hyves Desktop. In about half-a-year, the application has grown much more than just helping folks upload images to Hyves. It now has some very interesting features to help you spice up your photos. Here is a short video demo showing ... http://blog.forwardbias.in/2009/09/hyves-photo-uploader-1-2-do-more.html