A Qt Blog

From Qt Apps:

A first beta of version 0.7 of QTM, the Qt 4-based desktop blogging client, has been released. Changes:

• New feature: Multiple accounts
• New feature: Assistance to user in filling out location/server details, depending on which CMS or blog service is in use
• Build system: Ability to disable the use of QPlainTextEdit if it is present (as in Qt 4.4), as that class has the same "scroll bug" as earlier versions of QTextEdit
• Bug fix: Tenth entry in Recent Files menus now has hotkey 0, not 1 as before

Screenshots here, downloads (source only) here. Requires Qt v4.1 (some features require 4.2).

Posted by Indigo Jo at 1:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 0.9.7.2 of QtiPlot, a data analysis and scientific plotting application, has been released. Changes:

• Improved fit wizard: the parameters of user defined functions are automatically detected and synthax errors are reported. Added a new weighting method: Direct Weighting.
• Added a new ellipse tool for 2D plots.
• Implemented the possibility to configure the behavior of note editors with respect to fonts and TAB length.
• Improved autocompletion in note windows.
• Improved Python scripting support:
• added support for rectangles and ellipses on 2D plots.
• added the possibility to customize plot curves in terms of color, line width and line style.
• nonlinear curve fitting is now easier to perform than ever: the list of parameters is automatically detected when you set a fit formula.
• added a launch option (-X) allowing to execute scripts without displaying the user interface.
• Improved export to vector formats with custom resolution.
• Improved Tex equation editor dialog.
• Improved the import of Origin 7.5 project files.
• Fixed bug affecting linear regressions on weighted data sets (#14277).
• Fixed scaling of texts when resizing a 2D plot.
• Fixed matrix data import.
• Fixed a few other minor bugs.

For screenshots, see the home page; downloads (source, with binaries in return for a support contract) here. Requires Qt 4.4 and Python 2.5 (scripting requires SIP and PyQt v4).

Posted by Indigo Jo at 5:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 1.9.4 of SIR (Simple Image Resizer), a simple application for resizing images of a number of common formats, has been released. Changes:

• Dutch translation included
• Minor bug fixes
• Some code refactoring

Screenshots here, downloads (source, Debian binary) here. Requires Qt 4 (not sure which minor version).

Posted by Indigo Jo at 2:59 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 1.0 of DoxyGate, a GUI front-end for Doxygen, the system for producing documentation for C/C++ classes, has been released. There is no changelog. Screenshots here, downloads (source tarball, Windows installer) here. Requires Qt 4.4.

Posted by Indigo Jo at 9:29 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 1.0.2 of cb2Bib, a tool for extracting bibliographic references from emails, PDFs and journal webpages and encoding them in BibTeX, has been released. Changes:

• Fixed problems with window flicker and LaTeX encoding
• Optimise approximate searches in document files
• New 'Edit reference' functionality with search results

Full changelog here. Screenshots here, downloads (source, Windows installer, link to Mac binaries) here. Requires Qt 4.3.

Posted by Indigo Jo at 11:24 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 1.0.0 of Edyuk, an integrated development environment for Qt 4, has been released. Changes:

• Greatly improved graphical debugging
• Improved completion
• Full Qt 4.4 support
• Revamped plugin management
• "Polishing all over the place"
• Improved stability

Screenshots here, downloads (source, Windows installer) here. Requires Qt 4.3 or later.

Posted by Indigo Jo at 11:19 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 1.0.1 of cb2Bib, the application for extracting bibliographic references from online documents, has been released. Changes:

• References with \LaTeX{} syntax can now be imported.
• Sub and superscript conversions from HTML alt tags and [sub/p .] tags have been included.
• Metadata insertion has been improved, and the option 'Update Documents Metadata' has been added in BibTeX editor.
• Several bugs in context menus, reference list filter, and parsing some BibTeX nested braces has been fixed.

Screenshots here, downloads (source, Windows installer, various third-party Linux binaries) here. Requires Qt 4.3.

Posted by Indigo Jo at 8:42 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 1.0.0.1 of cb2Bib, a tool for extracting bibliographic references from online documents and rendering them in BibTeX, has been released. Changes:

• Bug fix: error in v1.0.0 which resulted in not inserting the correct reference to the document when importing from PDF
• New metadata reading & writing capabilities
• Updated configure dialog
• Several minor bugs fixed

Also see release notes for v1.0.0. Screenshots here, downloads (source, Windows and Mac binaries, links to binaries for several Linux distros) here. Requires Qt 4.3.

Posted by Indigo Jo at 8:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 0.6.3 of QTM, a blog entry editor and submitter, has been released. Changes:

• New feature: recent files menu in both the system tray icon and each window
• New feature: two new D-Bus signals, quickpostTemplatesUpdated and quickpostTemplateTitlesUpdated
• Bug fix: use double newlines when pasting text as Blockquotes
• Bug fix: strips out extra newlines when pasting text as lists
• Bug fix: proportions of the two sides of the quickpost template dialog set correctly
• Build system: now use a CMake configure_file command to generate qtm_version.h (had not been generating properly on Mac for some reason)
• Build system: now uses full paths for all generated files, to facilitate out-of-source builds
• Build system: all generated files included in "make clean" list
• Also, the files account_form.ui and account_form41.ui have been renamed PrefsForm.ui and PrefsForm41.ui, in preparation for separating the accounts and preferences dialogs in 0.7

Screenshots at Qt Apps above; downloads from project homepage. Requires Qt 4.1 (many features require Qt 4.2).

Posted by Indigo Jo at 7:54 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

SpeedCrunch: SpeedCrunch 0.10.1 released

Version 0.10.1 of Speedcrunch, the scientific calculator based on Qt 4, has been released. Changes:

• The equals sign on the keypad works again
• Previous and next buttons work correctly when Hebrew language is used (or Arabic, but it seems there is no Arabic translation)
• Unmask function no longer crashes
• New Basque, Catalan and Simplified Chinese translations

Full changelog here, with closed issue list here. Screenshots here, downloads (source, Windows and Mac installers, links to third-party Linux binaries) here. Requires Qt 4.2.

Posted by Indigo Jo at 6:36 PM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 0.9.6 of QtiPlot, a data analysis and scientific plotting application, similar to Origin, based on Qt4, has been released. Changes:

• Implemented autocompletion for script editors and the possibility to display line numbers.
• Implemented confidence and prediction bands for fits. Improved the goodness of fit statistics.
• Improved the Fit Wizard.
• Improved the preferences dialog: added the possibility to customize the background of 2D plots.
• Added integration and linear regression from multiple table column selection.
• Fixed opening of Origin 7.5 files.
• Improved Python scripting engine.
• Fixed bugs concerning error bars.
• Fixed a few other minor bugs.

Screenshots linked off home page; downloads (source, binaries for various platforms in return for a maintenance contract) here. Requires Qt v4.3.2 or later (full requirements list here).

Posted by Indigo Jo at 1:25 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 4.1.3 of eric4, the integrated development environment for Python written using PyQt, has been released. This is a bug fix release. Screenshots here, downloads with requirements (no packages, just tarballs) here. Requires Qt 4.2 and Python 2.4.

Posted by Indigo Jo at 10:48 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 0.6 of QTM, the blog management application, has been released. Changes since last stable version:

• New feature: QTM now saves blog and category lists in an XML file from session to session, saving the delay of fetching them several times in a session
• Installer: New Windows installer
• New feature: Opening files by specifying them on the command-line when starting QTM
• New feature: Ability to quickpost articles downloaded through HTTPS as well as HTTP (requires Qt 4.3, doesn't work on Windows, at least not out of the box)
• Compatibility: Removed regex searching on Qt 4.1, because that version of Qt doesn't support searching a text document (QTextDocument) using regular expressions
• User interface: New yellow system-tray icon displayed while quickpost is in progress (Windows only)
• User interface: Now displays busy cursors when posting blog entries or refreshing blog or category lists
• Improvement: When setting the title of a new quickpost article, sets the window title to it as well
• Bug fix: Now displays categories in proper alphabetical order, with shorter entries (e.g. KDE) appearing before longer ones (e.g. KDE Apps)
• Bug fix: Now checks for and, if necessary, creates the local storage directory before writing the templates file

Screenshots here, downloads (source, Windows installer, SUSE and Ubuntu binaries) here. Requires Qt 4.1 (many features require 4.2 or 4.3).

Posted by Indigo Jo at 10:21 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 0.9.5 of QtiPlot, a data analysis and scientific plotting application similar to Origin, has been released. Changes:

• Implemented automatic column values recalculation in tables.
• Improved the behavior of the Fit Wizard. Added a new built-in linear fit without the constant term.
• Improvements to the multilayer plots and to the Python script interface. Now you can create a 3x2 grid of 2D plots with a single line of code: newGraph("Title", 6, 3, 2).
• Fixed crash when importing ASCII to matrices.
• Fixed copy/paste in tables.

Screenshots linked off home page; downloads (source, with binaries for all supported platforms available in return for a maintenance contract) here. Requires Qt 4.2.

Posted by Indigo Jo at 11:29 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 0.9.4 of cb2Bib, a tool for extracting bibliographic references from emails, journal web pages and PDFs, has been released. Changes:

• Extraction context menu adapted to include dynamic bookmarks
• PubMed extractions has been set to keep IDs as URL BibTeX fields.
• The cb2Bib reference browser has been updated accordingly, to ease posterior access to PubMed article entries.
• File BibTeX field can now be configured to being relative to the current BibTeX file, to facilitate using removable devices for article storage.

Screenshost here, downloads (source, Windows installer) here. Requires Qt 4.2.

Posted by Indigo Jo at 11:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

A first beta of version 0.6 of QTM, a blogging application (written by the author of this blog), has been released. Changes:

• Installer: new Nullsoft installer for Windows
• New feature: Blog and category lists retained from session to session
• New feature: Loading files specified on command line
• Compatibility: Restored Qt 4.1 compatibility by removing regex searching in entries, which Qt 4.1 does not support

Screenshots (old) here, downloads (source, Windows installer with other binaries possibly to follow) at SourceForge here. Requires Qt 4.1 (4.2 strongly recommended).

Posted by Indigo Jo at 8:57 PM | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 4.1.2 of eric4, an integrated development environment (IDE) for Python and Ruby based on PyQt, has been released. This is a bug-fix release. Screenshots here, downloads (unpackaged Python code) here. Requires Qt 4.2 and Python 2.4 (full requirements list at the download page).

Posted by Indigo Jo at 10:22 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 0.10 of SpeedCrunch, the scientific calculator, has been released. Changes:

• bug fixing of almost all known bugs
• ERF, ERFC, GAMMA, LNGAMMA, IDIV and MOD functions
• math book browsable pages dock window
• automatic calculation of the selected text
• automatic syntax highlighting color generation
• complete support for RTL (right-to-left) written languages
• ability to change the language on-the-fly
• restore last session
• save and load session
• batch calculation
• full screen mode
• minimal view version
• status bar
• context menu for tray icon
• new keyboard shortcuts and redesigned menu
• new Turkish (incomplete) translation
• preliminary support of logic functions
• extended output of real-valued numbers to non-decimal modes
• allow real-valued arguments for NPR and NCR
• default desktop file for menu integration in Linux desktops
• possibility to package portable versions with no need for installation

Screenshots here, downloads (source, Windows installer, links to third-party Linux binaries) here. Requires Qt 4.2.

Posted by Indigo Jo at 9:38 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 0.9.4 of QtiPlot, a scientific plotting and data analysis application which uses Qt, has been released. Changes:

• Use of modified Qwt 5.1 (from Subversion repository), supplied with QtiPlot
• Improved export of 2D plots: no more white gaps between the axes.
• Highly improved the speed of Table/Matrix values calculation when using muParser as script engine: QtiPlot is now five times faster then Origin 7.5 when working with matrices.
• Fixed the numerical integration of data sets and added the possibility to integrate analytical functions.
• Added 2D numerical integration for matrices.
• Improved matrix undo/redo framework and fixed all possible memory overflows when working with matrices.
• Improved the custom actions dialog.
• Fixed a few minor bugs.

Screenshots linked off home page; downloads (sources, with binaries in return for buying a maintenance contract) here. Requires Qt 4.2.

Posted by Indigo Jo at 7:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 0.9.3 of QtiPlot, a data analysis and scientific plotting application similar to Origin, has been released. Changes:

• Added support for Undo/Redo when working with matrices.
• Implemented ASCII import/export for matrices.
• Improved matrix to table conversion.
• Added the possibility to hide/show table columns.
• Added support for plotting combined date and time data.
• Improved import of Origin 7.5 project files.
• Fixed a few minor bugs in the Fit Wizard and some other minor bugs.

Screenshots off main page under "features"; downloads (sources, binaries for all desktop Qt platforms in return for a maintenance contract) here. Requires Qt v4.3.2 or later (for full requirements see here).

Posted by Indigo Jo at 10:07 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 1.5.4 of LyX, the GUI-based document processor which produces TeX and PDF files, has been released. Changes include:

• Major improvements to Chinese, Japanese and Korean language support
• Improvements to documentation translations in several European languages
• New LyX math manual (in English, French & German)
• Various crash bugs fixed

Full changelog here. Screenshots here, downloads (source, Windows and Mac installers, some Linux binaries) here. Requires Qt 4.1 (full requirements list here).

Posted by Indigo Jo at 11:38 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 1.2 of Synkron, a tool for synchronising directories (such as those on hard drives with removable storage devices), has been released. Changes include:

• added Arabic and Japanese translations
• improved portability
• periodical sync option moved to Scheduler
• multisyncs added to Scheduler
• propagated remove and rename function integrated into Windows Explorer
• clone folder 1/sources option
• enhanced Restore
• enhanced Mac support
• several bug fixes

Screenshots here, downloads (source, Windows and Mac installers) here. Requires Qt 4 (it does not say which minor version).

Posted by Indigo Jo at 9:46 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 0.5.7 of QTM, the blog management application with a Quickpost feature similar to that of certain blogging systems, has been released. Changes:

• New feature: "Copy title", allowing the user to automatically name an entry after the online resource it is based on when quickposting
• Improvement: now sorts the categories alphabetically, rather than in the apparent non-order in which they have previously appeared
• Improvement: unedited, fresh Quickposts are no longer "dirty", i.e. if user tries to close the window, if will not prompt him to save
• Removed: accept and reset buttons in the Quickpost Template configuration dialog; a new template is now "accepted" if any details are entered, while reset had intractable bugs and can be achieved in any case by cancelling and reopening the dialog
• User interface: added What's This help to the preference item "Save passwords with entries"

Screenshots here, downloads (source, Ubuntu binary with SUSE and Mac packages to follow) on home page. Requires Qt v4.1 (the Quickpost feature requires v4.2).

Posted by Indigo Jo at 11:21 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 0.9.3 of cb2Bib, a tool for extracting bibliographic references from emails, journal web pages and PDFs, has been released. Changes:

• The PubMed entries in query information file netqinf.txt have been updated to prevent some references from not being retrieved.
• An issue when parsing bibliographic keys from KBibTeX has been fixed.
• A convenience bookmark menu has been added to the BibTeX editor.

Screenshots here, downloads (source, Windows installer, various contributed Mac and Linux binaries) here. Requires Qt v4.2.

Posted by Indigo Jo at 10:40 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From KDE Apps:

Version 0.42.0 of Traverso DAW, an audio recording and editing tool, has been released. Changes:

• Read and write support for Ogg Vorbis, WavPack, FLAC and MP3
• On the fly sample rate conversion
• A simple yet effective Project backup and restore system
• Better use of available hard disk bandwidth
• Encoding formats for recording added: W64 and WavPack
• 3 new themes added, notably the medium-contrast and ubuntu theme
• Fixed a number of bugs, added new ones and various improvements all over the place
• User Manual translated into German and Portuguese

Screenshots here, downloads (source, Linux autopackage installer, Windows and Mac OSX packages) here. Requires Qt 4.2.3 or later (4.3.1 or later recommended; full requirements list here).

Posted by Indigo Jo at 11:43 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 1.5.3 of LyX, a WYSIWYG editor which produces LaTeX output, has been released. Changelog:

This is a maintenance release that further improves the stability and the performance. Besides numerous crashes, the display problems that slipped into 1.5.2 with the performance fixes (on the Mac and on Windows) as well as problems entailed to the reworked document classes were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3 comes with speed improvements that should pay off especially on the Mac and other UNIXes. Finally, this version also provides some new features (detailed list here).

Screenshots here, downloads (source, OpenSUSE download) here. Requires Qt 4.1 (full requirements list here).

Posted by Indigo Jo at 10:18 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 4.0.4 of Eric4, the IDE for Python written using PyQt, has been released. This is a bug fix release; ongoing changelog here. Screenshots here, downloads (source only; it's Python) here. Requires Qt v4.2 and Python v2.4 (full list here).

Posted by Indigo Jo at 10:07 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 0.9.2 of cb2Bib, an application for rapidly extracting bibliographic references from emails, PDFs and journal web pages, has been released. Changes:

• A potential crash when deleting the last item in a list view has been fixed.
• Overextended merging of contiguous excepts has been corrected. BibTeX parser, searches, and composite searches have been optimized.
• Some fixes/workarounds for Qt older than 4.3.3 file dialogs and exec icon for the X11 version have been introduced.

Screenshots here, downloads (source, Mandriva 2007 RPM, Windows and Mac binaries) here. Requires Qt v4.2.

Posted by Indigo Jo at 11:24 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 0.9 of Speedcrunch, the scientific calculator, has been released. Changes:

• a new, faster and more accurate math engine with a greatly extended number range
• real-value factorials
• new inverse hyperbolic functions
• stay always-on-top feature

Screenshots here, downloads (source, Windows installer, links to various Linux binaries) here. Requires Qt v4.2.

Posted by Indigo Jo at 5:11 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 0.9.1 of QtiPlot, an Origin-like scientific plotting and data analysis program, has been released. Major changes:

• The behaviour of matrices is now completely Origin like: dual image/data view mode, support for flipping and rotating images, 2D histograms and the possibility to save matrices as bitmap or vector image files. Fast Fourier Transformations for matrices was also implemented. This is a restricted module (the code is not GPL) and is available only to users having subscribed for a QtiPlot binaries maintenance contract.
• The fit wizard was higly improved: all the fit models and the initial guesses for the fit parameters can be saved to XML files, added the possibility to restrict the search range for the fit parameters and added a preview functionality for the fit models, allowing to determine efficiently the initial fit values.
• Added support for 3D parametric surfaces.
• Added a preview option to the import ASCII dialog and the possibility to import new data as read-only columns.
• Improved the handling of tool bars and added a new tool bar for table column operations.
• The import of Origin 7.5 project files was improved thanks to Alex Kargovsky.
• Fixed export to vector formats on Mac OS X.

Screenshots linked off home page; downloads (source only unless you pay) here. Requires Qt v4.2 and Python v2.5; scripting requires SIP and PyQt v4.

Posted by Indigo Jo at 10:42 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 0.3 of Squash, formerly Squeeze, a batch image resizer, has been released. Changes:

• Usability improvements
• Bug fix: Squash would crash when restarting resize
• Application rename

Screenshot and downloads (source, Ubuntu Gutsy and Windows binaries) at the Qt Apps page.

Posted by Indigo Jo at 10:38 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 1.3.0 of iTest, a computerised examination suite, has been released. The system consists of a client and a server. Changes in both:

• added Spanish translation
• added SVG (scalable vector graphics) support, which means questions can now contain graphics
• added multiple correct answers support
• new database format - older versions of iTest cannot open the new itdb 1.3 files, iTest 1.3 can still open older databases
• upgraded from Qt 4.3.1 to Qt 4.3.2

Changes in the server:

• added the ability to print questions and tests (with or without graphics)
• added search to the "overall statistics" dialogue
• made the ui more flexible
• many improvements in translations
• numerous bug-fixes and more...

Changes in the client:

• added the ability to hide correct answers at the end of tests
• made the ui more flexible
• fixed a bug where the status of the test progress bar was not refreshed after starting a new test

Screenshots here, downloads (source, Mac and Windows binaries) here. Requires Qt v4.3.

Posted by Indigo Jo at 4:54 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From KDE Apps

Version 0.9.0 of cb2Bib, a tool for extracting bibliographic references from emails, web pages and PDFs, has been released. Changelog:

This release brings several improvements, both in the interface and in the internals of the program. Consistent shortcuts, improved editor/browser menu, and updated dialogs had been introduced. Additionally, customizable page number separators, improved ID's generation, and better recognition for the editor, abstract and ISBN fields had been included.

Screenshots here, downloads (source, Windows and Mac binaries, Mandriva 2007 RPM) here. Requires Qt 4.2.

Posted by Indigo Jo at 11:03 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 0.5.6 of QTM, the blog management application written by the author of this blog, has been released. Changes:

• New feature: "associated hosts" in quickpost templates. The user can specify a number of hosts in a template, and when he then quickposts an article with that hostname in the URL, that template will be used.
• Improvement: two new template tags: %host% (which is just the hostname of a page being blogged) and %domain% (which is %host% without the www.).
• Bug fix: fixed crashes when shutting the quickpost template config window when there are no templates.
• Build system: fixed relinking behaviour; no longer relinks when QDEBUG is not set (from CMake command line).

Screenshots here, downloads (source, Ubuntu binary with SUSE and Mac OS X binaries to follow) here. Requires Qt 4.1 (Quickpost requires Qt 4.2).

Posted by Indigo Jo at 12:24 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 0.2 of Squeeze, a batch image resizer (see author's own blog posting here), has been released. This seems to be the first release and there's no changelog. See the blog posting for a screenshot and the Qt Apps page for a source download. (Binaries, including a Mac disc image by me, are expected to follow.)

Posted by Indigo Jo at 1:24 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 2.5.0 of QGRUBEditor, a Unix/Linux boot-loader configuration utility, has been released. Changes include:

• View input now shows the UUID of each device
• Viewing contents of menu.lst
• New "fallback" command
• Re-implemented all GRUB settings
• Colour support
• Tools menu
• Password encrypting tool
• GRUB splash image authoring tool
• All translations updated; new Romanian translation
• Vector Graphics and Smart Crop settings removed
• Various bug fixes

For full changelog, see the Qt Apps page (which is the project's only homepage). Screenshots and downloads (source with some old binaries) are available there also. Requires Qt 4 (not sure which minor version).

Posted by Indigo Jo at 6:06 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 1.5.2 of LyX, a TeX-based WYSIWYG word-processor, has been released. Changes include:

• Revised user guide, also translated into Spanish
• Improvements to user-interface translation on the Mac
• Translations to Finnish, Portuguese and Simplified Chinese
• Updated Czech, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese and Romanian translations
• New "Save all" action
• Now offers to "save all" when closing the application
• Numerous other user-interface improvements and bug fixes, including fixes to crash bugs

Full changelog, with release announcement, here (plain text file). Screenshots here, downloads (source, Windows installer and Mac disc images, SUSE 10.2 and 10.3 RPMs) here. This is a Qt 4 application (there is a requirements list here, but it's out of date).

Posted by Indigo Jo at 11:12 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 1.0.0 of Synkron, a program for synchronising folders across disks (for example, between a hard drive and a Flash drive), has been released. Changes since v0.9.2 include:

• new user interface
• support for Mac OS X and Linux
• Multisync
• Scheduler
• added Slovak translation
• added the ability to update existing files only
• update checker
• numerous bug fixes

Screenshots here, downloads (source, Windows and Mac binaries) here. Requires Qt 4 (it does not say which minor version).

Posted by Indigo Jo at 5:48 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From KDE Apps:

Version 0.9 of QtiPlot, a scientific plotting and data analysis application, has been released. Changes:

• QtiPlot is now fully scriptable via Python. All objects and data analysis tools available in QtiPlot can be accessed and customized via scripts. The full description of the scripting interface is given in the updated user manual.
• The import of Origin 7.5 project files was highly improved thanks to Alex Kargovsky.
• The behaviour of the 2D plot grids is now completely Origin-like.
• Added a new logistical fit tool and improved the sigmoidal fit tool.
• Lots of user-requested features were implemented and a lot of bugs were fixed.

Screenshots linked off main page; downloads (source, binaries for a fee) here. Requires Qt v4.2 (for other requirements, see the homepage).

Posted by Indigo Jo at 12:08 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From KDE Apps:

Version 3.0 of qOrganizer, a personal organiser program, has been released. Changes include:

• New Spanish, Albanian, Macedonian and Estonian translations
• New storing mode, allowing the user to choose to store to a file or a database
• A new search function
• A cleaned-up, tabbed settings dialog
• Support for odd/even week timetables as used in some colleges
• Drag/drop support for images in journals
• Various bug fixes

Screenshots here, downloads (source, RPM and DEB binaries, Windows installers) here. Requires Qt 4 (I cannot find which minor version, or any other dependencies).

Posted by Indigo Jo at 5:32 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From Qt Apps:

Version 1.2.0 of iTest, a computerised examination system with a client-server model, has been released.

Changes in iTestServer (formerly Database Editor) include:

• renamed to iTestServer
• added Portuguese translation
• added the ability to set a pass mark for each flag separately
• this required some changes in the saved sessions view and in printing
• added the ability to group similar questions in order to be able to tell the client to choose one question of the group at most (useful when knowing the answer for one question would suffice to guess the answers for other questions)
• server setup (advanced): double clicking adds/removes items
• improved the "overall statistics" dialogue; question names now coloured according to their flag
• improved the "change language" dialogue
• improved the comments editor (undo/redo)
• changed flag 1 colour to light green
• row height now calculated correctly in the "overall statistics" dialogue
• fixed the "adjust difficulty" button - now the icon in the list of questions changes when difficulty changed
• cleaned up the menus, improved their behaviour
• code clean-up
• new database format - older versions of iTest cannot open the new itdb 1.2 files, iTest 1.2 can still open older databases
• upgraded from Qt 4.3.0 to Qt 4.3.1

Changes to iTestClient (formerly Test Writer):

• renamed to iTestClient
• added Portuguese translation
• added the ability to start a new test
• more advanced test generation, support for groups added
• upgraded from Qt 4.3.0 to Qt 4.3.1

Screenshots here, downloads (source, Windows and Mac binaries) here. Requires Qt 4.3.

Posted by Indigo Jo at 5:49 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)