Trolltech Releases Qt 4.2 Technology Preview

Oslo, Norway, 30 June - 2006 - Trolltech ® today announced the release of a technology preview of Qt ® 4.2 – the upcoming new version of its leading framework for high performance cross-platform application development – to its commercial and open source developer community for feedback.   The final release of Qt 4.2 is currently scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2006.

In addition to a significant number of improvements and performance optimizations, the technology preview unveils a wide range of new features for initial testing, including:

• Graphics View – A powerful 2D graphics area for highly optimized graphics development.  Graphics View replaces and builds on the former Q3Canvas, adding significant new functionality in the areas of item interaction, optimized level-of-detail rendering, affine item transformations, enhanced control over animations and enhanced drag and drop features.

• Desktop Services – A new group of features that provide consistent, user-preference-aware methods for accessing common desktop services, enabling tasks such as opening a web page, file, folder or e-mail composer to be initiated from the desktop.

For a complete overview of these, and many more new features included in the technology preview, please visit What’s New in Qt 4.2 within the Qt Documentation, found online at: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.2/qt4-2-intro.html.  

How to Submit Feedback

Trolltech values all feedback from its commercial and open source community, and encourages extensive testing of the new technologies included in Qt 4.2.  To collect this feedback, a special mailing list has been set up – qt4-preview-feedback@trolltech.com.  To subscribe, send a message containing just the word subscribe to qt4-preview-feedback-request@trolltech.com.  For more information on all Trolltech mailing lists, and to view archived discussions, please visit http://lists.trolltech.com/.

Licensing & Availability

The release is now available under a special technical preview license.  To download the technology preview, please visit http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/downloads.