Qt 1.44 released | Linux Today

Qt 1.44 released

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 15, 1999

Qt is Troll Tech’s GUI toolkit upon which KDE and other
graphical applications are built.

Qt 1.44 source is now available at

        ftp://ftp.troll.no/qt/source/qt-1.44.tar.gz

Here is a list of user-visible changes in Qt from 1.43 to 1.44.  The
usual bugfixes have been added.

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*                    New classes                   *
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None.

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*               Enhancements from 1.43 to 1.44             *
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When clicking the mouse outside a popup widget, the clicked widget gets
the event.

Fixed focus rectangle in windows style for listboxes with multi selection
enabled (focus was not visible before).

Drag and drop fixes on Windows.

QListView drawing fixes.

QPrinter fixes on Windows involving pixmaps, images and fonts and
QPainter::setWindow/viewport.

QDateTime::addSecs() overflow fixed for nsecs >2,147,483.

QString operator+(char,const QString &) fixed.

QIconSet memory leak fixed.

QToolButton memory leak fixed.

QWhatsThis memory leak fixed.

Now WStyle_DialogBorder maps again to something unresizable on Windows
(advantage: you can get rid of the WStyle_Title).

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*               Changes that might affect runtime behavior                 *
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GIF image reading has been turned off by default.  See README and qt_gif.h
for more information.

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*               Changes that might generate compile errors                 *
*                        when compiling old code                           *
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None.

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*               Type changes that might generate warnings:                 *
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None.

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*               Deprecated functions                    *
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None.

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*                New global functions                   *
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None.

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*      New public/protected functions added to existing classes            *
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None.
Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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