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| /*! |
| \page whatsnew52.html |
| \title What's New in Qt 5.2 |
| \brief Lists the new features in Qt 5.2 |
| |
| Qt 5.2 introduces many changes for helping developers continue creating |
| wonderful applications, easily and with less code. As well in this release, |
| focus is placed on bug fixing and new features, while maintaining |
| compatibility with Qt 5.1 and 5.0. |
| |
| This page is a summary of new features. For specific API changes, the |
| \l{List of API Changes} section contains links to new and obsolete classes. |
| |
| \section1 New Modules |
| |
| \list |
| \li \l{Qt Android Extras} |
| \li \l{Qt Bluetooth} |
| \li \l{Qt Mac Extras} |
| \li \l{Qt NFC} |
| \li \l{Qt Positioning} |
| \li \l{Qt Windows Extras} |
| \endlist |
| |
| For more information, visit the \l{All Modules} page. |
| |
| \section1 Support for New Platforms |
| |
| \section2 Android |
| |
| \list |
| \li Full support for camera and recording |
| \li Low-latency audio (QAudioInput, QAudioOutput) |
| \li Command-line deployment tool |
| \li JNI convenience API |
| \li OpenSSL support |
| \endlist |
| |
| For more information, visit the \l{Qt for Android} page. |
| |
| \section2 iOS |
| |
| \list |
| \li Media player support |
| \li Basic camera support (only viewfinder and image capture) |
| \li Low-latency audio (QAudioInput, QAudioOutput) |
| \endlist |
| |
| For more information, visit the \l{Qt for iOS} page. |
| |
| \section1 Qt Creator Updates |
| |
| Qt Creator 3.0 is released along with Qt 5.2. In Qt Creator 3.0, the |
| following were added: |
| |
| \list |
| \li Initial iOS support |
| \li API cleanup |
| \li Enhanced Android support |
| \li Initial debugging backend for the \l{The LLDB Debugger}{LLDB Debugger} (OS X) |
| \endlist |
| |
| \section1 Installation Updates |
| |
| In 5.2, there are new reference installers for OS X: |
| \list |
| \li Android |
| \li iOS |
| \endlist |
| |
| There is also a new target binary for Windows, OS X, and Linux: |
| \list |
| \li Qt for Android ARMv5 |
| \endlist |
| |
| The installers are available from the \l{Downloads} page. |
| |
| \section1 New Features in Qt 5.2 |
| |
| \section2 Qt Core Module |
| \list |
| \li Added class QCommandLineParser for command-line arguments parsing |
| \li Added new overload to QObject::connect() to add a context object when connecting to a lambda |
| \li Added new QStringRef methods; left, right, mid |
| \li Added QLoggingCategory/qCDebug, qCWarning, and other macros to configure what gets logged at runtime |
| \li Added class QTimeZone to support time zones using Olsen time zone IDs |
| \li Added support to QDateTime for new Qt::TimeSpec of Qt::TimeZone and Qt::OffsetFromUTC |
| \li Added new class QCollator to provide advanced platform-based collation |
| \li Added more I/O redirection possibilities to QProcess |
| \li Added iteration capability to containers in QVariant |
| \li Added dereferencing to QObject for smart pointers in QVariant |
| \li Added QFileSelector to ease the selection of files when running in a different platform |
| \endlist |
| |
| \section2 Qt GUI Module |
| \list |
| \li Added applicationState() function and applicationStateChanged() signal to QGuiApplication |
| \li Added QOpenGLTexture class |
| \endlist |
| |
| \section2 Qt Widgets Module |
| \list |
| \li Added support for embedded clear button commonly used for item view filtering and side actions to QLineEdit |
| \li Added methods based on QUrl to QFileDialog |
| \li Added new QKeySequenceEdit class |
| \li Restored session-management support from Qt4 |
| \li Restored basic startup-notification support on Unix |
| \li Added placeholderText property to QTextEdit |
| \li Added getMultiLineText static method to QInputDialog |
| \li Added tabBarClicked and tabBarDoubleClicked signals to QTabBar |
| \endlist |
| |
| \section2 Qt Print Support Module |
| |
| \list |
| \li Added advanced CUPS features on Linux including server-side page |
| range selection, odd and even page selection, pages-per-sheet, job |
| scheduling, and banner pages. |
| \endlist |
| |
| \section2 Qt QML Module |
| \list |
| \li Added new property to \l{QtQml::Qt::application}{Qt.application}: state |
| \li Added ability to define QML singletons with QML files |
| \li Added QQmlFileSelector for applying file selectors to support certain styles of cross-platform development |
| \li Added a supported method for launching QML-only applications for the QML binary runtimes |
| \li New V4 JS engine |
| \endlist |
| |
| \section2 Qt Quick Module |
| \list |
| \li Added a new \l{Qt Quick Scene Graph}{scenegraph} renderer for improved performance |
| \li Added texture atlas support in SceneGraph |
| \li Added new \e animator types, which can run animations on the scene graph's render thread. |
| \li Support for external drag-and-drop |
| \endlist |
| |
| \section2 Qt Quick Controls Module |
| \list |
| \li Added support for an editable combo box |
| \li Added support for multi-selection in \l [QtQuickControls1] TableView |
| \li Added support for setting columns movable in \l [QtQuickControls1] TableView |
| \li Added \l [QtQuickControls1] Switch type |
| \li Added \l [QtQuickControls1] BusyIndicator type |
| \li Simplified deployment |
| \endlist |
| |
| \section2 Qt Quick Dialogs Module |
| \list |
| \li Added a new FontDialog type |
| \endlist |
| |
| \section2 Qt Quick Layouts Module |
| \list |
| \li Added baseline support to layout |
| \endlist |
| |
| \section2 Qt Network Module |
| \list |
| \li Added public methods to pre-TCP and pre-SSL-connect to QNetworkAccessManager |
| \li Added API to persist and resume SSL sessions to QSslConfiguration |
| \li Added support for allowing for debugging SSL traffic with Wireshark or tcpdump |
| \li Add public member bearerTypeFamily() to QNetworkConfiguration |
| \endlist |
| |
| \section2 moc New Features |
| \list |
| \li Added \c -M argument to add plugin metadata from the command line |
| \endlist |
| |
| \section2 Accessibility New Features |
| \list |
| \li Enabled accessibility on Mac |
| \li Made the APIs public so that it is possible to implement accessibility for custom widgets |
| \li Basic accessibility support for Android |
| \endlist |
| |
| \section2 WebKit New Features |
| \list |
| \li Added CSS blending |
| \li Improved the threaded garbage collection |
| \li Added support for LLInt on x87 (old x86 without SSE2) |
| \li Added Improvements to standard support in HTML5 Canvas, CSS Grid, CSS Shapes, CSS filters, and other features |
| \endlist |
| |
| \section1 List of API Changes |
| |
| The pages below contain a list of API changes in Qt 5.2 |
| \list |
| \li \l{New Classes and Functions in Qt 5.2} |
| \li \l{Obsolete Classes} |
| \endlist |
| |
| \section1 Additions to Other Qt 5 Releases |
| |
| \list |
| \li \l{What's New in Qt 5.4} |
| \li \l{What's New in Qt 5.3} |
| \li \l{What's New in Qt 5.1} |
| \li \l{What's New in Qt 5.0} |
| \endlist |
| |
| */ |
| |
| /*! |
| \page newclasses52.html |
| \title New Classes and Functions in Qt 5.2 |
| \brief A list of new C++ APIs in Qt 5.2 |
| |
| This page contains a comprehensive list of all new classes and functions |
| introduced in Qt 5.2. Links to new APIs in previous Qt 5 releases are found |
| at the bottom of this page. |
| |
| \sincelist 5.2 |
| |
| \section1 Additions to Other Qt 5 Releases |
| |
| \list |
| \li \l{What's New in Qt 5.6} |
| \li \l{What's New in Qt 5.5} |
| \li \l{What's New in Qt 5.4} |
| \li \l{What's New in Qt 5.3} |
| \li \l{What's New in Qt 5.1} |
| \li \l{What's New in Qt 5.0} |
| \endlist |
| */ |
