We are pleased to announce the release of the beta version of the QtitanNavigationDesignUI 4 component. The long delay in releasing updates was due to the development of a mechanism for creating styles based on the popular Adobe XD tool. Our idea is to move away from manually writing rendering code for QStyle and instead provide the ability to design styles entirely in Adobe XD (Figma support is currently in the final stages of completion). This is now possible without any limitations. You simply design the style in Adobe XD according to a specific template, export the XD file to an XML file using a special utility (dcmake.exe - included in the DC Studio Tool), and then load the resulting XML file into Qt. The XD template is designed so that you can create both dark and light themes or any other color themes directly in Adobe XD. Colors will be exported to QPalette, and during rendering, the active palette group is taken into account — whether it's QPalette::Active, QPalette::Inactive, or QPalette::Disabled. Component states such as Hover, Pressed, or Disabled for the mouse are supported; fonts and metrics are also exported. All these elements are extracted from the Adobe XD document, so there’s no need to define them in the code. It’s enough to implement the design in Adobe XD while following the template.

In addition to the new style, QtitanNavigationDesignUI 4 includes an updated WindowTitleBar class, which allows customization of the title bar for the top-level window. The new WindowTitleBar for Windows is implemented based on WinRT Direct Composition. To use it, you need Qt version 6.7.2 or higher. If you're using an older version of Qt6 or Qt5, the mechanism based on WM_NCCALCSIZE will be used instead. Building requires the use of the Visual Studio compiler, as mingw.g++ does not yet support WinRT compilation. The use of WinRT allows us to achieve support for the Acrylic effect on Windows 10 or 11, just as it works in native .NET applications. For Windows 11, the Mica effect is also available. To enable it, use:

Qtitan::WindowTitleBar::setBlurBehindWindowEffect(WindowTitleBar::Mica);

The updated WindowTitleBar includes an additional feature that allows you to add several custom buttons: a theme selection button (light or dark), a settings button, and a back button. These buttons will appear when the new WindowsUI style is in use.

For the Linux version, the WindowTitleBar class code contains an important fix for a bug that prevented proper dragging or resizing of the top-level window in the KDE Window Manager. Additionally, in this new version, we have fixed bugs related to rendering in the NavigationView and NavigationEdgeView classes, along with other issues reported by users. The source code for the beta version of QtitanNavigationDesignUI 4 is available in the personal accounts of QtitanNavigationDesignUI and QtitanSolution users. This version is currently only available for Windows, with versions for Linux and MacOS expected to be released by the end of May 2025.

Dear customers, we sincerely congratulate you on the upcoming New Year!

Let the new year bring prosperity and more stability. We really hope to please you with new interesting solutions that will help in daily development and increase productivity. We look forward to further collaborative and fruitful work in the New Year!

On the eve of the new year, we would like to inform you that until the end of January 2025 you will be able to purchase new licenses and renew old ones with a 30% discount. Happy New Year!

We are pleased to announce the release of the first preview version of our tool for creating style design for Qt. The idea of the tool is to get rid of manual coding when creating QStyle-based styles for QWidgets and develop the new styles in Adobe XD, Figma or DC Studio Tool. This version demonstrates the basic capabilities for importing Adobe XD documents and export these to XML/Java-FastInfoset file format. In the future we will provide a special Qt-style module, which will be able to load such XML and render the Qt style without any coding.

In current app implementation the functions of exporting components, resources, color tables and fonts are supported. You can manipulate with the document tree structure and change the layout of grouping elements. Additionally, a mechanism for working with themes has been implemented - when a design document can have several color palettes associated with figures and ability to change the palette with one button-click for the entire document. For example, you can have Light and Dark themes, switching which, the document is being redrawn in a dark or light colours. The application also has basic functionality for creating shapes and text.

This is not a self-sufficient application yet, but it gives an idea of the direction in which we wish to develop this product. Our current efforts are focused on high-quality import from Adobe XD format (completed) and Figma (will be completed soon).

You can download the preview version for OS Windows at the link - DCStudioInstaller1.0.0_AlphaPreview1_Win_x64_Community.exe

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We are pleased to announce the release of the QtitanDataGrid 8.2. The main feature of this update is improved support for the drag-drop mechanism. Drag-drop works well for CardView and TreeView as for TableView. Improved support for internal move operation. Added support for Qt6.7.2.

We are pleased to announce the release of the update for QtitanRibbon component. The version contains a number of bug fixes for Windows 11 support and added support for Qt6.7.2.

We are pleased to announce the release of the update for QtitanRibbon component 6.7. In this version we added a new RibbonProgressBar control and non-GUI class RibbonProgressOperation, which allows to perform long-time operations in a separate thread and notify the end-user through the RibbonProgressBar about progress. The main feature of RibbonProgressBar is the RibbonProgressBar::setValueSafe(int) method, which is thread-safe. This means you can safely call it from any thread without fear of breaking the GUI. To demonstrate how it works, we created an example Ribbon_DocumentLoader, it is available for C++ and Python (PySide). Additionaly, RibbonProgressBar supports animation. The progress bar shows the increase or decrease of progress smoothly, without twitching.

Another important feature of version 6.7 is support for the Acrylic effect for top-level windows under OS Windows 11. Unfortunately, there is a bug in Windows 10 which does not allow to use this beautiful effect, but under Windows 11 we found a way to initialize it. For Windows 10, we initialize a common blur effect as an alternative that was introduced in Windows 7. The screenshots below show the difference.

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OS Windows 11

Finally, we fixed a bug in customizing actions engine on the quick access bar and another problems. Improved icon rendering for RibbonButton. QtitanRibbon version 6.7 supports Qt6.6.3.

We are pleased to announce the release of QtitanDataGrid 8.1. Version 8.1 contains a number of improvements and bug fixes in the abstract model interface mechanism, when data is inserted, deleted into models, or moved within the model. Column font initialization error has been fixed. Added the ability to set an index for a column to correctly restore the layout from XML. Other improvements.