| 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://doc.qt.io/qt-5/index.html |
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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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| https://bugreports.qt.io/ |
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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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| **************************************************************************** |
| * Controls * |
| **************************************************************************** |
| |
| - General |
| * Added support for a QT_QUICK_CONTROLS_MOBILE environment variable to |
| make the controls behave like mobile controls on platforms that are |
| not automatically detected as mobile platforms |
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| - ComboBox |
| * [QTBUG-39088] Added inputMethodHints property |
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| - Menus |
| * [QTBUG-41951] Fixed keyboard navigation in submenus |
| * iOS: let the platform plugin populate edit menus |
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| - ScrollView |
| * [QTBUG-48044] Fixed interference with ListView transitions |
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| - SpinBox |
| * Added cursorPosition property |
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| - TableView |
| * [QTBUG-50416] Fixed dragging of headers with invisible header columns |
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| - TextArea |
| * [QTBUG-44734] Added editingFinished signal |
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| - TextField |
| * Added support for the attached EnterKey.type property |
| * [QTBUG-49147] Hid the placeholder text when horizontally center |
| aligned and focused |
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| - TreeView |
| * Added rootIndex property |
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| **************************************************************************** |
| * Dialogs * |
| **************************************************************************** |
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| - FileDialog |
| * [QTBUG-46477] Fixed potential UI freezes by creating the internal |
| FolderListModel asynchronously when the dialog is first opened |
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| - Android |
| * [QTBUG-47369] Fixed window decorations' dismiss-on-click behavior |
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| - Dialog |
| * [QTBUG-49380] Fixed handling of button box width when it has less than |
| two right buttons |
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| **************************************************************************** |
| * Layouts * |
| **************************************************************************** |
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| - General |
| * [QTBUG-41216] Improved distribution when snapping to pixel grid |
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| - RowLayout, GridLayout |
| * [QTBUG-45152] Fixed to adhere to sibling order of the children |
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| - StackLayout |
| * Introduced StackLayout |
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| **************************************************************************** |
| * Styles * |
| **************************************************************************** |
| |
| - iOS |
| * Implemented SliderStyle |
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| - Edit menus |
| * Allowed styles to provide own edit menu implementations to provide the |
| standard cut/copy/paste actions with the platform style |
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| **************************************************************************** |
| * Extras * |
| **************************************************************************** |
| |
| - Tumbler |
| * [QTBUG-48680] Added animation interval argument to setCurrentIndexAt() |