| Qt 5.6 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes |
| over the 5.5.x series. For more details, refer to the online documentation |
| included in this distribution. The documentation is also available online: |
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| http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5 |
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| The Qt version 5.6 series is binary compatible with the 5.5.x series. |
| Applications compiled for 5.5 will continue to run with 5.6. |
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| Some of the changes listed in this file include issue tracking numbers |
| corresponding to tasks in the Qt Bug Tracker: |
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| http://bugreports.qt-project.org/ |
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| Each of these identifiers can be entered in the bug tracker to obtain more |
| information about a particular change. |
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| **************************************************************************** |
| * Library * |
| **************************************************************************** |
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| QtQml |
| ----- |
| |
| - Enabled Just-In-Time compilation for JavaScript on MIPS |
| |
| - ObjectModel: |
| * Added get(), append(), insert(), move() and remove() methods. |
| |
| - Profiling: |
| * QtQml can now write additional information so that perf is able to give |
| function names of JavaScript methods when profiling. To enable this, set |
| the environment variable QV4_PROFILE_WRITE_PERF_MAP=1 when running the |
| process in question. |
| |
| - XMLHttpRequest: |
| * Added support for the PROPFIND method in HTTP requests. |
| * Added support for the "json" binary response type. |
| * Fixed a memory leak in the use of the responseXML property. |
| |
| - qml tool: |
| * The qml tool now quits immediately if Qt.quit() is called before all scenes |
| complete creation. |
| * Make it possible to make script without .qml suffix |
| |
| - QJSEngine: |
| * Introduced an extension API that allows installing various function and |
| object extensions (qsTr(), console.log(), etc.) to QJSEngine. |
| installTranslatorFunctions() was deprecated in favor of the new extension |
| API (see installExtensions()). |
| |
| - QQmlComponent: |
| * Synchronously complete the loading of an asynchronous QQmlComponent, if a |
| PreferSynchronous QQmlComponent is created for the same url (provided that |
| this url does support synchronous loading). |
| |
| - URLs from Qt.include() are now passed through the URL interceptor (if |
| present). |
| |
| QtQuick |
| ------- |
| |
| - Added padding, leftPadding, topPadding, rightPadding and bottomPadding |
| properties to Text, TextInput, TextEdit in addition to all positioning items, |
| such as Column, Row, Grid, and Flow. |
| |
| - Items may now listen for the ItemDevicePixelRatioHasChanged event in |
| QQuickItem::itemChange() in order to become aware of when DPI scaling has |
| changed (for instance, when the window has moved to a different screen). |
| Text elements take advantage of this in order to rerender when the DPI has |
| changed. |
| |
| - Images now support looking for higher pixel ratios, not just @2x. |
| |
| - Added the possibility to mirror the generated OpenGL texture via the newly |
| added Item::layer.textureMirroring and ShaderEffectSource::textureMirroring |
| properties. |
| |
| - QQuickFramebufferObject: |
| * Added a mirrorVertically property to QQuickFramebufferObject. |
| |
| - Shortcut: |
| * Added Shortcut.nativeText and portableText properties to read back the key |
| sequence as a string |
| * Added Shortcut.sequenceString property to read back the key sequence as a |
| displayable string |
| |
| - Flickable: |
| * The movement related signals and properties are now updated for flicks |
| started via the flick function. |
| * Mouse wheel movement will no longer cause Flickable to overshoot past its |
| boundaries. |
| |
| - Flipable: |
| * Flipable now toggles the 'enabled' property on whichever side is active. |
| This restores broken behavior compatibility with QtQuick1, and blocks |
| input to whichever side is not active. |
| |
| - Item: |
| * Added EnterKey attached property that allows to change the appearance of |
| the Enter key on an on-screen keyboard. |
| |
| - MultiPointTouchArea: |
| * Fixed released() signal duplication on mouseReleaseEvent. |
| |
| - QQuickPaintedItem: |
| * Implement high-dpi support and add function textureSize. This obsoletes |
| the existing contentsSize, contentsScale and contentsBoundingRect |
| functions. |
| * A QQuickPaintedItem with Item.layer set will now include child items in the |
| layer. |
| |
| - QQuickWindow: |
| * Add TextureIsOpaque option to createTextureFromImage() |
| * Added a render job stage: NoStage. This allows scheduling jobs for |
| execution on the render thread. |
| |
| - Repeater: |
| * Positioners will now always ignore Repeaters. Previously, Repeaters were |
| ignored by positioners when their width or height were 0. |
| |
| - Text: |
| * Fixed baseline of Text elements where the vertical alignment was something |
| other than top. |
| |
| - TextEdit: |
| * Add an editingFinished signal, emitted when the text edit loses focus. This |
| mirrors the same signal already available on TextInput since Qt 5.2. |
| |
| - Item Views: |
| * positionViewAtIndex() will now reliably work on a view with a sticky |
| header/footer set. |
| * ListView no longer ends up with "holes" between delegates (or missing |
| delegates) under some circumstances. |
| |
| QuickTest |
| --------- |
| |
| - TestCase: |
| * Added equals() function to image object returned from TestCase's |
| grabImage() function. |
| * Key events in TestCase are now sent to the window with active focus, |
| meaning that tests that create custom windows can receive key events. |
| |
| QtQuick.Particles |
| ----------------- |
| |
| - Turbulence: |
| * Noise source image is now correctly read from QRC files as well as local |
| files. |
| |
| Qt.labs.folderlistmodel |
| ----------------------- |
| |
| - FolderListModel: |
| * Add an indexOf(file) function to determine the index of a given file. |
| |
