Changes to Qt

[Jimmy2775]

Hypothetical question: If you were able make an improvement or two to Qt, regardless of how difficult it might be to implement, what kind of changes would you make?

I am still pretty new to Qt, but based on my experience so far I would like to be able to control the order in which slots are processed when the corresponding signal fires. That is, if I connect two slots to a QPushButton's clicked() signal, I would like to be able to enforce which slot fires first.

A second change I would make would be to improve printing capabilities, perhaps by adding an XSLT processor or something. I have yet to find a way to print slick-looking reports from my Qt application and the inclusion of something like that would sure help a lot.

Jimmy

[jacek]

I have yet to find a way to print slick-looking reports from my Qt application and the inclusion of something like that would sure help a lot.
Yes, that would be very nice.

Have you seen OpenRPT (http://www.openrpt.com) and NCReport (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ncreport/)?

[Jimmy2775]

Have you seen OpenRPT (http://www.openrpt.com) and NCReport (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ncreport/)?

No I had not seen those before. Unfortunately at my company I am restricted from using GPL software in the solutions I develop :( so those won't help, but thanks for pointing them out :)

But back to my main point: what kinds of changes would the rest of you like to see?

[patrik08]

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A second change I would make would be to improve printing capabilities, perhaps by adding an XSLT processor or something. I have yet to find a way to print slick-looking reports from my Qt application and the inclusion of something like that would sure help a lot.
Jimmy

IMO...
Evryday you can print so clean pdf page on xslt and fop processor apache fop
( http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ ) put problem is all version... each version have a lot bug... from processor version xxx not know xslt-fo external link or image processing is different from stable and beta ....
and your must chance xslt-fo tag each processor version...

You can not find a processor that can parse all tag from http://www.zvon.org/xxl/xslfoReference/Output/index.html

I find a way to xslt direct to scribus xml sla format http://www.scribus.net/ and ghostscript + scribus QT libs make the best pdf && pdf forms so client can mail request direct inside a pdf...

other longer way is xslt to latex format ... but you must have a lot from file & libs...

and to print simple page tidy libs is ok ...

But the job from trolltech is to run application on all OS and not to print ....

[jacek]

Unfortunately at my company I am restricted from using GPL software in the solutions I develop
AFAIR OpenRPT is also available under commercial licence.