Changeset 243

Timestamp:

Oct 17, 2009, 2:46:45 AM (16 years ago)

Author:

Dmitry A. Kuminov

Message:

Readme for Beta 3.

File:

• trunk/README.OS2 (modified) (5 diffs)

trunk/README.OS2 ¶

@@ -68 +68 @@
 The next step is to go to the src subdirectory and type:
 
-  qmake
   make
 
@@ -78 +77 @@
 separate directories for object files.
 
+To save time, you may also build the release and the debug versions of the
+library separately by typing 'make release' or 'make debug' accordingly
+instead of just 'make'.
+
 Once the library is successfully built, you may try to compile the demos
 and examples by visiting the individual example subdirectories in the source
@@ -96 +99 @@
 CURRENT LIMITATIONS
 
-  1. configure.cmd is not yet capable of generating the main Makefile and
-     individual Makefiles for modules and examples. This needs to be done by
-     hand (as described above).
-
-  2. Beta 2 and earlier can only use one font at the moment,
-     C:\PSFONTS\HELV.PFB. Make sure this file exists.
+  1. configure.cmd is not yet capable to generate individual Makefiles for demos
+     and examples, it only generates the main Makefile that builds the library
+     and the necessary tools. Demos and examples can be compiled by hand
+     (as described above).
+
+  2. OS/2 bitmap fonts are not yet supported. Use TTF or Type1 (PFB) fonts with
+     Qt.
 
   3. Make sure you have the LANG environment variable properly set.
@@ -116 +120 @@
      real life applications and has low priority.
 
-  6. No native PM style.
-
-  7. No QDesigner, QLinguist and QAssistant.
-
-  8. No Drag&Drop, no printer support, no sound. See the project roadmap for
+  6. No native PM style, but Qt will use fonts and colors from the current
+     OS/2 theme (hint: if your default OS/2 font is "WarpSans", install the
+     "Workplace Sans" TTF font from Alex Taylor to get more native look & feel).
+
+  7. QProcess: when starting PM applications from text-mode applications and
+     when detaching applications with startDetached(), the returned PID is a
+     PID of the intermediate cmd.exe process, not the target application.
+
+  8. No QDesigner, no QAssistant.
+
+  9. No Drag&Drop, no printer support, no sound. See the project roadmap for
      more information on the progress and current limitations:
 
@@ -128 +138 @@
 
 CHANGES
+
+Beta 3 (17-10-2009)
+
+  Improvements:
+
+  - Added proper font support. All outline (scalable) fonts visible in the Font
+    Palette should be now recognized by Qt. The fonts are hinted and antialiased
+    using the Freetype2 library when drawing text.
+
+  - System fonts and colors are now used by default for Qt widgets.easy
+
+  - configure.cmd now generates the main Makefile to simplify building of Qt.
+
+  - corelib: QProcess: Implemented child termination detection.
+
+  - corelib: QProcess: Implemented redirection to another QProcess.
+
+  - corelib: QProcess now uses native pipes for stream redirection. This fixes
+    various issues like 'Socket operation on non-socket' errors during
+    parent-child communication.
+
+  - corelib: QProcess: Make sure that the directory containing the executable
+    file is always searched (first) for DLLs needed by this executable. This
+    makes it unnecessary to change the current directory to the executable's
+    directory or add it to LIBPATH before starting the Qt application.
+
+  - corelib: QProcess can now start applications of different type (e.g. PM
+    applications from text-mode applications) directly.
+    QProcess::startDetached() also works.
+
+  - qmake: In debug_and_release mode, 'release-(all|clean|distclean|install|
+    uninstall)' and 'debug-(all|clean|distclean|install|uninstall)' make
+    targets are now available.
+
+  Fixes:
+
+  - Doing 'make clean' could result into a hang due to CMD.EXE command line
+    length limitation.
+
+  - corelib: Fixed: QProcess: Lost data during stream redirection.
+
+  - corelib: QSettings could sometimes distort data when saving it to the
+    registry (by replacing some characters with codes 0x80 and above with '?').
 
 Beta 2 (17-09-2009)