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diff --git a/doc/src/qt4-intro.qdoc b/doc/src/qt4-intro.qdoc index 2384051..7325e27 100644 --- a/doc/src/qt4-intro.qdoc +++ b/doc/src/qt4-intro.qdoc @@ -60,7 +60,53 @@ \section1 Recent Additions to Qt 4 - The following features have been added to Qt since the first release of Qt 4: + The following features have been added to Qt since the first release of Qt 4. + + In Qt 4.7: + \list + \o Declarative UI Development with \l{Qt Quick}, technologies for creating + fluid, dynamic user interfaces. + \o Support for \l{Bearer Management}{network bearer management}, enabling + features such as control over network interfaces and support for roaming + between networks. + \o Feature and performance improvements in QtWebKit, including a new tiled + backing store, control over scroll bars used in frames and framesets, + accelerated compositing and \l{The QtWebKit Bridge}{support for hybrid + development}. + \o General performance improvements, including the use of "alien widgets" + on Mac OS X, the QStaticText class for optimized text rendering, a new + \l{QPainter::drawPixmapFragments()}{API for rendering pixmap fragments} + and an updated version of the JavaScriptCore engine for the QtScript + module with improved performance. + \endlist + + In Qt 4.6: + \list + \o Support for \l{The Symbian platform - Introduction to Qt}{the Symbian Platform} + as a mainstream Qt platform, with integration into the S60 framework. + \o The \l{The Animation Framework}{animation framework} allows animations to be + created using both widgets and graphics items. + \o The \l{The State Machine Framework}{state machine framework} provides a robust + state chart implementation based on Harel statecharts and SCXML. + \o Support for \l{QTouchEvent}{touch input} and \l{Gestures Programming}{gestures} + enable developers to create intuitive user interfaces for touch-based devices. + \o A \l{QWebElement}{DOM access API} for QtWebKit provides a cleaner and safer way + to access elements and structures of Web pages without the use of JavaScript. + \o A collection of performance improvements, covering QGraphicsView, QPixmapCache, + QNetworkAccessManager, QContiguousCache class, hardware-accelerated rendering + support through \l{OpenVG Rendering in Qt}{OpenVG}, and the removal of Win9x + support. + \o A collection of \l{QGraphicsEffect}{graphics effects} make it easy to apply + and simple effects to graphics items and combine them to produce more complex + effects. + \o Support for XML schema validation in the QtXmlPatterns module covering + large parts of version 1.0 of the specification. + \o Qt3D enablers, including math primitives for \l{QMatrix4x4}{matrix multiplication}, + \l{QVector3D}{vectors}, \l{QQuaternion}{quaternions} (client-side), and an API + for \l{QGLShader}{vertex and fragment shaders}, GLSL/ES. + \o \l{QtMultimedia Module}{Multimedia services} providing low-level access to the + system's audio system. + \endlist In Qt 4.5: \list @@ -209,7 +255,7 @@ \row \o \l{Qt3Support} \o Qt 3 support classes \row \o \l{QAxContainer} \o ActiveQt client extension \row \o \l{QAxServer} \o ActiveQt server extension - \row \o \l{QtHelp} \o Classes for integrating online documentation + \row \o \l{QtHelp} \o Classes for integrating online documentation \row \o \l{QtDesigner} \o Classes for extending and embedding Qt Designer \row \o \l{QtUiTools} \o Classes for dynamic GUI generation \row \o \l{QtTest} \o Tool classes for unit testing @@ -451,7 +497,7 @@ A list of other Qt 4 features can be found on the \bold{\l{What's New in Qt 4}} page. - \section1 Declarative UI development with Qt Quick + \section1 Declarative UI Development with Qt Quick \image quick_screens.png @@ -466,7 +512,7 @@ collaborate tightly and create animated and fluid user experiences, using existing knowledge in script language and design. - \i QtDeclarative is a C++ library that provides the underlying engine, + \i Qt Declarative is a C++ library that provides the underlying engine, which translates the declarative description of the UI in QML into items on a QGraphicsScene. The library also provides APIs to bind custom C++ types and elements to QML, and to connect the QML UI with @@ -508,7 +554,7 @@ For hybrid QtWebKit and C++ projects, Qt 4.7 has added support for transporting \l{QPixmap}s between Qt C++ and WebKit. We have also - improved the documentation hybrid development. Read more here: + improved the documentation for hybrid development. Read more here: \l{The QtWebKit Bridge}. \section1 QtWebKit Performance Benchmarks @@ -680,7 +726,7 @@ See the QTouchEvent class documentation for more information on touch input and QGestureEvent for gestures. - \section1 DOM access API + \section1 DOM Access API Web pages and XML both have very complex document object models. The W3C selector API provides a very simple way to access and @@ -699,7 +745,7 @@ \list \o Rewritten the QGraphicsView rendering algorithm. - \o Made QPixmapCache support efficient Key datastructure. + \o Made QPixmapCache support efficient Key data structure. \o Reduced overhead in QNetworkAccessManager. \o Added the QContiguousCache class, which provides efficient caching of contiguous data. @@ -740,7 +786,7 @@ See the \l{XML Processing} and QXmlSchema class documentation for more information. - \section1 Qt3D enablers + \section1 Qt3D Enablers As more of Qt, and more of the applications built on Qt go 3D, API's should be provided to simplify this. Mainly, the new API @@ -750,7 +796,7 @@ The main features of the Qt3D enablers are currently: Math primitives for matrix multiplication, vectors, quaternions - (client-side), and API for vertex and fragment shaders, GLSL/ES. + (client-side), and an API for vertex and fragment shaders, GLSL/ES. Future research will, among other things include stencils, scissors, vertex buffers and arrays, texture manipulation, and geometry shaders. |