BelleChat is finally just-about ready for publishing to the Nokia Store. With the help of Daniel Ferguson, I've been bug-fixing and tweaking, and got it into a fit state to publish. It's going to be available in the Nokia Store for the equivalent of €1 (that's £1, or US$0.99, I think). I think that's a reasonable amount. Of course, you could always fork the GitHub repository and compile it yourself if you really want...
I already have some ideas for the future. The channels list needs some sort of search facility. I tried adding parameters to the IRC LIST command, but this didn't give the results I wanted. I think I'm going to have to play about with ListModels. I'm also thinking about being able to store details for more than one server, and parsing the server INFO messages to improve the UI. More advanced features of IRC need looking at too. Suggestions are gratefully received...
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Sunday, April 08, 2012
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Version numbering in Qt isn't such a git.
Warning: This is techy stuff. Those of a delicate persuasion (or those who have a life) should look away now...
Still there? No? I'll carry on anyway. In Qt, there's no out-of-the-box way of automatically identifying the version of a project. This could be useful for debugging purposes, for example. However, if you use source code control, you can achieve it easily.
I use Git as my SCCS, and I have adapted the solution I found on Qt Centre, which uses SVN. My version uses git describe, which outputs a string in the following format:
latest tag-number of commits since tagging-unique identifier of latest commit
The code goes in the .pro file of your Qt project, and is as follows:
This code inserts the git describe string in a #DEFINE macro called build. Here I've used it in a function to display an about box:
What's IRCBoilerplate? I'm writing an IRC client for my phone. IRCBoilerplate is a simple Windows IRC client I'm using to learn the nuances of the IRC protocol.
Still there? No? I'll carry on anyway. In Qt, there's no out-of-the-box way of automatically identifying the version of a project. This could be useful for debugging purposes, for example. However, if you use source code control, you can achieve it easily.
I use Git as my SCCS, and I have adapted the solution I found on Qt Centre, which uses SVN. My version uses git describe, which outputs a string in the following format:
latest tag-number of commits since tagging-unique identifier of latest commit
The code goes in the .pro file of your Qt project, and is as follows:
# Create a macro from the Git describe command, to use in about boxes.BUILDSTR = '\\"$$system(git describe)\\"'
DEFINES += BUILD=\"$${BUILDSTR}\"
This code inserts the git describe string in a #DEFINE macro called build. Here I've used it in a function to display an about box:
void MainWindow::on_aboutButton_clicked()
{
// Display an About box. This uses the BUILD macro created from the // Git describe string in IRCBoilerplate.pro QString versionString = BUILD;
QString aboutString = "IRC BoilerPlate " + versionString + "\n ©2011 Mark Johnson.\nUses the Communi IRC library by J-P Nurmi et al.";
QMessageBox::about(this, tr("About IRCBoilerplate"), aboutString);
}
What's IRCBoilerplate? I'm writing an IRC client for my phone. IRCBoilerplate is a simple Windows IRC client I'm using to learn the nuances of the IRC protocol.
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