Several of my Qt-based applications, including Sonic Visualiser and Tony, have some menu actions attached to single-key shortcuts without a modifier key. Examples include the Space bar to start and stop playback, or the "f" key (without Ctrl, Alt or any other modifier) for zoom-to-fit. While testing the update from Qt 4 to Qt 5.1… Continue reading Single-key menu shortcuts with Qt 5 on OS/X
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Small conclusions about APIs and testing
In my previous post I explained a small but significant API change for v0.9 of the Dataquay library. Although there was nothing very deep about this change or its causes, I found it interesting partly because I had used a partly test-driven process to evolve the original API and I felt there may be a… Continue reading Small conclusions about APIs and testing
Details of the Dataquay v0.9 API changes
Dataquay hasn't seen a great deal of use yet. I've used it in a handful of personal projects that follow the same sort of model as the application it was first designed for, and that's all. But I've recently started to adapt it to a couple of programs whose RDF usage follows more traditional Linked… Continue reading Details of the Dataquay v0.9 API changes
Dataquay
Dataquay is my C++ library for RDF datastore management using the Qt toolkit. It's a library for people who happen to be writing C++ applications using Qt and who are interested in managing data that fit well into a subject-predicate-object graph model (as in the Linked Data paradigm, for example). It uses Qt classes and… Continue reading Dataquay
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