Qt 2.2.3 Released

Sunday, 17 December 2000 | Melter

Our friends at TrollTech have announced Qt 2.2.3. Qt 2.2.3 is a bugfix release. It keeps both forward and backward compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 2.2.2. For details, read the announcement and see the change summary.

Comments:

Keith's AA stuff in there? - Joe Dorita - 2000-12-17

Is Keith P's Anti-Aliasing stuff in there? The announcement doesn't say anything about it. Anyone know when we can expect it to be in there?

Re: Keith's AA stuff in there? - Matt - 2000-12-17

AFAIK, the AA text code is in the latest version of Xfree86 (CVS). The only modification that was made to QT to enable this, is to call the AA text display functions in X, rather than the normal ones. The Anti-Aliasing code is not in QT itself. Of course all of this is just my own educated guess.

Re: Keith's AA stuff in there? - ac - 2000-12-17

It's in qt-copy though.

Re: Keith's AA stuff in there? - SteveH - 2000-12-17

I don't know when it might be in the official QT, but you can get Keith's patch here: http://keithp.com/~keithp/download/qt-2.2.3.diff.gz

Re: Keith's AA stuff in there? - Joe Dorita - 2000-12-17

Hey thanks. Grabbed it, complied it. It messes up a few things, but it's pretty neat :)

Re: Keith's AA stuff in there? - jpmfan - 2000-12-18

Keith's patch is now in qt-copy on CVS. I upgraded mine over the weekend using CVSup, along with XFree86 4.0 (also using CVSup) and anti-aliased fonts work perfectly. There were a few problems with 4.0.2 and QT/KDE before but they seem to have been fixed now (e.g. konsole). Well done Keith and Trolltech!

Not quite perfect - Joe Dorita - 2000-12-19

It works well, but it crashes some apps (try chosing a font in Licq.) It also isn't Xinerama-ified yet, so only one of your heads will display text AT ALL :) I've exchanged e-mail with Keith and he said that he's planning on Xinerama-ifying it soon.

Re: Keith's AA stuff in there? - Thorsten - 2000-12-19

Hey, these Patches are pretty neat. But, I compiled my own version of qt2.2.3, and how can I get this patch to work ... I downloaded it, but executing, neither in the QTDIR nor in any directory else, leads to any output I could use. What to do?

Re: Keith's AA stuff in there? - red5 - 2000-12-24

The pach is qziped so first gzip -d it then copy it to you QTDIR (the one where you built qt) now type: patch -p0 < qt-2.2.3.diff you should get this output patching file configs/linux-g++-shared patching file configs/linux-g++-shared-debug patching file configs/linux-g++-static patching file configs/linux-g++-static-debug patching file src/kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp patching file src/kernel/qfont_x11.cpp patching file src/kernel/qfontdatabase.cpp patching file src/kernel/qpainter_x11.cpp patching file src/kernel/qpixmap_x11.cpp patching file src/kernel/qt_x11.h patching file src/kernel/qwidget_x11.cpp step 3 recompile happy hacking

Re: Keith's AA stuff in there? - Thorsten - 2000-12-24

Thank you very much ... I will try it due the free days ... Happy X-mas, Thorsten

Re: Qt 2.2.3 Released - Charles - 2000-12-18

will XFree86 4.0.2 include the AA text or do we have to wait?

Re: Qt 2.2.3 Released - Sam - 2000-12-18

It will be included... ... if your graphic card supports the extension that is... Some cardholders like the ATI ones will probably be a bit disapointed :(

Re: Qt 2.2.3 Released - David Johnson - 2000-12-18

I'm sick of always buying the cards that don't get supported. Which cards will this be in? Which cards are best for Xfree86-4?

Re: Qt 2.2.3 Released - Locohijo - 2000-12-19

Go to the XFree86 website, I believe there's a list of which are compatible and which are not. site is http://xfree86.org

Re: Qt 2.2.3 Released - Sam - 2000-12-20

It is just minor work getting it supported for software fallback (not super fast rendering then). So when 4.0.3 is out, Qt, Gtk, and probably a lot of other things have been prepared for the renderer In short, you won't miss to much. /Sam

Re: Qt 2.2.3 Released - MK - 2000-12-19

No problems with the ATI Rage128 Mobility ;)

Re: Qt 2.2.3 Released - Erik Hill - 2000-12-19

Why can't AA be supported whether or not the card has support for it? It can be done in software (I modified the X-Windows driver for Microwindows to do alpha -- AA just requires alpha and the math is simple.

Re: Qt 2.2.3 Released - Sam - 2000-12-20

It will for most cards. The small thing has just to be enabled for software fallback. Will _most_ likely be in 4.0.3

AA - Netpig - 2000-12-18

What is AA anyway? Could someone give pointers to good tutorials?

Re: AA = Anti-aliasing - thil - 2000-12-18

Have a look to http://www.widearea.co.uk/designer/anti.html

Broken OpenGL on nvidia driver? - S. Loisel - 2000-12-19

We couldn't get OpenGL to work on the nvidia driver because of Mesa dependencies in the source code. Has this been fixed?