Category Archives: C++

Nanoparticles available for Android and Mac OS X

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

As mentioned in the post about Nanoparticles for Android being just around the corner, I have been able to port Nanoparticles by using the Qt port for Android enabled by the Necessitas project. That’s why you can download Nanoparticles from … Continue reading →

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Nanoparticles for Android is just around the corner

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

Thanks to the great work of Bogdan Vatra and the Qt Developers working on Lighthouse, I have finally been able to create a running version of Nanoparticles on Android. Their efforts have led to the Necessitas project, a very user … Continue reading →

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Handling locked screen event in Qt for Maemo

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

If you want to pause an application to save battery power when the screen is turned off, you can do this by listening for the locked screen event in Qt for Maemo. However, this is not made easily available through … Continue reading →

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Handling application minimization in Maemo with Qt

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

When you are developing with Qt on Maemo you might want to minimize or detect minimization of your application to the dashboard. Qt lacks clean functions for these use cases, but thankfully it’s still very easy to accomplish them. Minimizing … Continue reading →

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Trafikanten on Maemo

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

Update: The package was pushed to Extras testing on 2nd of October. It was delayed because Maemo’s package repository would not import the new package due to some trouble with the version numbering. There has been missing a native application … Continue reading →

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Fixing “undefined reference to `vtable for …”

Posted on January 3, 2010 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

These annoying errors have been haunting me the last couple of days, so I figured I should share the most common reason for their occurrence. That is in my projects at least. This error is caused because the linker in … Continue reading →

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