Trolltech Releases Qt 4.2: A Powerful Graphics View and Innovative Widget Stylesheets

Trolltech has released Qt 4.2, a new version of its popular framework for high performance cross-platform application development. The release includes a number of improvements and performance optimizations, such as a new Graphics View that enables construction of high performance interactive applications handling millions of 2D graphics objects, enhanced widget styleability with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), Qt/Mac look and feel improvements, and tighter integration with the GNOME Desktop Environment. The release will appeal to a wide range of development organizations in verticals such as EDA, visualization, oil and gas, and medical devices. Developers can draw from over 400 fully object-oriented class libraries including classes for GUI, layout, database, internationalization, networking, XML, and much more.