{"id":219,"date":"2009-08-25T23:42:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T21:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/enricoros.wordpress.com\/?p=219"},"modified":"2013-04-21T15:51:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T22:51:15","slug":"quax4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enricoros.com\/oldblog\/2009\/08\/quax4\/","title":{"rendered":"Quax 4 – a tale of porting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note for planetqt<\/a> readers: the title should be ‘Quax 4 – a tale of porting’
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Once upon a time, a little application called quax<\/a> was landed on kde-apps<\/a>. As imagination is better served by a picture, here is what quax looks like:<\/p>\n

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Quax after being ported to Qt 4.5.<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s nothing but a simple and easy to use screen magnifier<\/em>. You can move it around and place it near the detail to magnify. Plus it lets you pick the color of a pixel. It’s the perfect tool when you’re tuning the style, pixels and gradients of your beloved app<\/a> \ud83d\ude09 It had only one drawback: it was build with Qt 3.<\/p>\n

Porting Quax to Qt4<\/h4>\n

It was the first time I had to port an application from Qt3 to Qt4. Here are some stats:<\/p>\n