Trolltech Newsletter Issue 7 - May 2008 - Qt 4.4 Edition

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Qt 4.4 Released! Qt Application Framework Changes the Face of Desktop Apps with Integrated Web Content and Extensions to Mobile Devices

Key Features - Qt 4.4 lets you:

incorporate online content and services such as maps, music stores and instant messaging into your native applications.
port desktop code to an embedded platform or vice versa just by recompiling.
build cross platform audio and video into your application
create more advanced user experiences
support XQuery standard.
easily parallel program with QtConcurrent.

Additional Feature Improvements

Added support for Visual Studio 2008
Inter-Process Communication framework
Improved Qt Assistant help system
Better printing and networking support

>> Read the complete announcement

Qt 4.4 Information Toolkit

Webinars

Combining Native Application Code with the Web for Rich User Experiences Hosted by Trolltech VP of Software Development Lars Knoll
Fully utilize hardware potential and create advanced user interfaces fast Hosted by Trolltech co-founder Eirik Chambe-Eng

Qt 4.4 in depth
Qt WebKit	Qt Everywhere
Incorporate online content and services such as maps, music stores and instant messaging into your native applications. Qt now integrates with WebKit, the open source browser engine inside Apple's Safari browser, the Apple iPhone and millions of Nokia smartphones. more	Now you can port desktop code to an embedded platform or vice versa just by recompiling. With Qt for Windows CE and Qt for Embedded Linux developing for embedded devices and systems is just as easy as it is for desktop. more
Support for Phonon	Widgets in Qt Graphic View
Qt now includes support for Phonon, a multimedia framework developed in conjunction with the KDE community. Phonon makes it easy to include multimedia playback in Qt application, and abstracts multimedia formats and frameworks on each targeted platform. more	Qt now also adds the flexibility of embedding widgets into a scene, bringing layouts, styling, popups and even window decorations into the canvas realm, and allowing the rotation, scaling, and application of perspective transformations to widgets. more
XML & Xquery Support	Parallel Programming with QtConcurrent
Qt now incorporates support for the XQuery standard. This enables developers to query, extract and transform data from XML encoded content in Qt-based applications. more	The QtConcurrent framework provides high-level APIs that make it possible to write multi-threaded programs without using low-level threading primitives. Building on Qt's threading features, QtConcurrent makes it easier to write certain kinds of multi-threaded applications. more
Trolltech news and events
Events	News
Qt in Animation Webinar/May 21 Qt Quickstart -Detroit/May 20 ESEC - Tokyo/ May 14-16 Qt Breakfast Seminar - Redwood City/ May 13 More events	QtCentre Programming Contest 2008 Trolltech’s Development Framework Qt, Wins the “2008 Mobile Internet Innovation Award” Trolltech Releases Qt Jambi 4.3.4 America’s Leading Network Music and Internet Radio Provider Selects Qt for Its Next Generation Streaming Media Device More news
Training	Talkback
Programming with Qt, Paris, France/May 19 - May 23 Programming with Qt, Bedford, Massaschussetts/2-6 June Programming with Qt, Amsterdam, The Netherland/9-13 June Programming with Qt, Las Vegas, Nevada/9-13 June Programming with Qt, Redwood City, California/14-18 July More courses	Tell us what you think about this newsletter and items you'd like to see in future newsletters. Send an e-mail to trolltalk@trolltech.com.