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Qt – Printing – Taxes – Pt. 4

by seasoned_geek

Before I get into more coding on this topic, I need to cover some remedial information. The first is how we center a heading. Even when we had printer spacing charts we would write the text on scratch paper then put a slash every two characters, counting spaces as characters then we would count the slashes. When working with narrow form we would subtract the number of slashes from 40, with wide form it was … Qt – Printing – Taxes – Pt. 4Read more

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Qt – Printing – Taxes — Pt. 2

by seasoned_geek

Apple Screws The Known Universe For whatever reason Apple (AAPL) has been allowed to maintain the CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) software for Linux and other platforms. Despite what people may tell you Apple is not a technology company, it’s a cult. That’s how you get idiots to spend over $1000 on an iDiot Phone and a ludicrous $53K for a desktop computer. Apple has, on multiple occasions abandoned computer platforms and operating systems, yet … Qt – Printing – Taxes — Pt. 2Read more

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Qt – Printing – Taxes — Pt. 1

by seasoned_geek

Unlike many of my “journey” post series, I actually have to complete most of this. It’s not experimenting for the sake of experimenting. It’s a need which keeps coming around every year. Those of you who have read “The Minimum You Need to Know About Qt and Databases” ISBN-13: 978-0-9823580-5-4 have an inkling about this. Please allow a thumbnail sketch for those less well read. Whenever I’m experimenting with/trying to learn some new tools there … Qt – Printing – Taxes — Pt. 1Read more

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Qt 6 – Remove Console from JavaScript and QML

by seasoned_geek

I originally sent this to the qt-interest mailing list but haven’t seen it bubble out to the world so re-posting here and, hopefully many other places. === This is becoming a growing issue in the industry. The Console object needs to be removed from Qt. The project I walked onto I had to spend a week digging it out because it violates the coding standards but that story was pushed deep into the backlog and … Qt 6 – Remove Console from JavaScript and QMLRead more