Qt 4.1.1 is a bug-fix release. It maintains both forward and backward compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 4.1.0. The Qt version 4.1 series is binary compatible with the 4.0.x series. Applications compiled for 4.0 will continue to run with 4.1. **************************************************************************** * General * **************************************************************************** Meta Object Compiler (moc) Better handling of preprocessor statements in combination with multi line comments. Fixed problem where moc would generate meta information for invalid signals/slots. Configure / Compilation Fix build of dumpcpp-dependent projects in Visual Studio 6. Fixed compilation for solaris-cc-64. Respect the -no-sql-mysql flag. Fixed compilation with -no-qt3support on Mac OS 10.3 qmake now places PkgInfo in the "Contents" directory of the .app bundle. Porting (qt3to4) Fixed the issue where 'int red' would be translated to 'Qt::red'. Improved handling of macros created by moc. Qt Designer uic3: Prevent generation of invalid font tags uic: Fixed bug that caused retranslateUI() to add existing items in combo box once again Fixed dependency problem where qtDesigner modules would depend on a private class. Added missing generation of setColumnCount() and setRowCount() for QTableWidget. Fixed a platform incompatibility when saving icon properties on Windows. Fixed a crash when breaking the layout in a dock widget. Fixed a crash when opening a new .ui file while in "Edit Tab Order" mode. Fixed a crash when adding a widget to a QDockWidget. Improved preview of signal/slot connections. Fixed an issue where moving widgets in a form resulted in lost signal/slot connections and tab order to get. Fixed corruption of shortcut properties in .ui files when saving under some locales. Fixed preview of QComboBox with item icons. Fixed an issue preventing cancellation of 'New resource file' if previous resource file was deleted. Fixed use of F1 as help shortcut. Qt Assistant Fixed problem with restoring window geometry on multi screen configurations. Qt Linguist / Internationalization Fixed tr() idioms, so that translation actually works. Fixed encoding of translated text. Qt Translation Added translation files for Simplified Chinese. Fixed a problem with lupdate parsing output from uic. **************************************************************************** * Library * **************************************************************************** General improvements -------------------- - QAbstractItemView Fix selections when mouse-tracking is turned on. Fixed selection issues after row resizing. Fixed focus after pressing enter. - QAbstractItemModel More consistent behavior in drag-and-drop code. - QAbstractSlider Ensure changed-signals are only emitted when the value actually changed. - QAbstractSocket Fixed a crash if disconnected during waitForReadyRead(). - QAccessibleWidget Fix an off-by-one navigation error in the accessibility support for menu bar and menus. - QByteArray Fixed leftJustified() and rightJustified() when array contains \0's. - QComboBox Fixed a crash when setting and deleting the model. Fixed a crash when using a QListWidget as the view. - QCoreApplication Fixes race condition during plugin loading. - QCommonStyle Fixed wrong size hint of PM_MenuButtonIndicator. - QDateTime Fixed a regression in fromString(). Avoid potential hang when paring invalid date formats. - QDialog Fixed an issue where setExtension()/showExtension() didn't work in a constrained size mode. - QDir cd() now fails when attempting to cd to a non-directory. - QDirModel Improved stability when appending network drives. Improved stability when handling symlinks with relative paths. - QDockWidget Update toggleViewAction() when widget gets hidden with close button. - QFile Changed behavior of rename() to fail if a file of the same name already exists. - QFileDialog Make sure filter combo box gets enabled when changing from Directory to ExistingFile mode. Improve filename completion for files with the same name but different extension. Make sure the selection is updated when modifying the filename by removing characters. Allow typing in several file names in the file name line edit. Improve handling of non-existent windows shares. Improve handling of hidden directories. Make it possible to create new folder when a folder called "New Folder" already exists. Improve usability by not changing the filename text when directories are selected. Improve usability by not autoselecting the first item when changing directories. Ensure that calling setDirectory() with a path shows the directory when the path contains a file name. Avoid unnecessary resolving of mount points, leading to lockups on Unix. Fixed potential crash when selecting an extension filter with no matches in current directory. Fixed a problem where using selectFilter() didn't update the view. - QFileInfo Fixed issue where copying a QFileInfo and calling refresh() could result in file info data being cleared. Fixed issue where calling readLink() would resolve link targets incorrectly. - QGLWidget Switching from full screen mode to normal mode no longer results in incorrect window decorations. Fixed overline, underline and strikethrough for text drawn with renderText(). - QGridLayout Respect specified alignment over default alignment. - QHeaderView Respects dragDistance. Respects TextColorRole. Fixed painting problems caused by clicking both mouse buttons at the same time. Fixed painting flaws when using sort indicators. Fixed issue where QStyleOptionHeader::End would not be set by paintSection. Only the left mouse button can now be used to move and resize header sections. Fixed incorrect header size after swapping header sections. Fixed resize mode of header sections after section moves. Fixed an assert when changing the selection model. - QHash / QSet Make the operator==() not take the internal order of elements into account when comparing. - QIcon Fixed issue where creating QIcons with an invalid path could result in a crash. - Improved handling of focus events when using input methods. - QInputDialog Fixed handling of ampersands in labels. - QImage Fixed drawing of QBitmap's onto a QImage. - QImageIOHandler Made all supported image formats support the Size option. - QItemSelectionModel Fixed an infinite loop in isRowSelected(). - QItemDelegate Better handling of QStyleOptionViewItem::Bottom. Increased the delegate horizontal margin. - QLayout Warn instead of crash when adding two layouts to a widget. - QLocale Add missing entry for "nb". - QList Fixed a memory leak when repeatedly removing items from the end and inserting items in the middle. - QListView Fixed an assert when using QProxyModel as the model. - QMainWindow Handle RTL layout for dockwidgets properly. Make dockwidgets remember their sizes after being hidden. Improved reliability when saving and restoring state. - QMenu Fixed shortcut handling of already selected submenus. Fix setting the window title on torn off menus. Fix bug where exec() returned the wrong QAction on some cases. - QMenuBar Improved widget placement in setCornerWidget(). - QMenuItem Ensure space for both check mark and icon when using QPlastiqueStyle. - QMYSQLDriver Fix crash when formatValue() is called without connection. - QMessageBox information() now works correctly when calling it after returning from QApplication::exec() - QPaintEngine Fixed an out of memory issue when drawing very long lines. OpenGL : Make sure the image and pixmap cache is used. OpenGL : Faster rect outlining for the most common case. - QPrintEngine Better font underlining/overlining. Support PDF font embedding, resulting in smaller PDF files and selectable text. Made our generated PDFs readable by Ghostscript. Support pens that have patterns/pixmaps for PDFs. Support landscape mode for PDFs. - QPixmap Fixed issue where save() in some cases would return true on failure. - QProgressBar Fix incorrect progress in some cases. - QPushButton Buttons reparented into a dialog parent through the layout are now auto-default. - QRadioButton Fixed a potential crash in QRadioButton Qt 3 support constructors. - QSortFilterProxyModel Improve stability when adding rows to source model. Fixed issue where some nodes would show up as expandable even if all it's children had been filtered. Fixed a crash when deleting rows. - QSizeGrip Fixed size grip painting when maximizing a QMainWindow in a QWorkspace. - QSvgRenderer Better handling of invalid files. - QSvg Improve stroking with pen width 0. Fix rectangle filling bug. - QSyntaxHighlighter Fixed missing handling of blocks of text under certain conditions. Improved interaction with input methods. - QScrollArea Fixed an issue where the scroll area sometimes would not resize to compensate for content change. - QString Fixed regression in fromLocal8Bit(). - QTextDocument Support span style background-color. Fix nested tables in html documents regression. - QTextLayout Added support for soft-hyphens. - QToolButton Make popup menus appear on the correct screen. Fixed ToolButtonPopupMode when QToolButton has a QAction. - QToolBar Combo boxes now appears as submenus in a toolbar extension. setIconSize() now works correctly. Relative position within toolbars are now kept when saving and restoring state. - QTextBrowser Fix missing line break after paragraph. - QTextEdit Improve handling of the TITLE tag. Fixed navigating links via tab. Improved handling of malformed html. Fixed rendering for tables with thead/tbody/tfoot elements. Improved copy and paste of content with whitespace Make undo/redo update the cursor position. Fixed lost cursorPositionChanged() signal in read-only mode. Fixed memory leak when calling setHtml() repeatedly. Significantly improved performance when appending and editing text. Improved performance when selecting all text. Emit copyAvailable() on mouse selection. - QTableView Fixed drawing of selections after moving columns. Do not wrap to the top if Page Down is pressed. Improve scrolling behavior. QTableView now takes ownership of QHeaders set using setHorizontalHeader() Fixed issue where calling setModel(0) could result in a crash. - QTreeView Fixed scrolling-related item expand bug. Improve scrolling behavior. QTreeView now takes ownership of QHeaders set using setHorizontalHeader() Avoid crash when calling setRowHidden with no model. Avoid crash when calling sizeHintForColumn() in some cases. Improved performance when adding rows. Fixed update of view when changing row heights. Fixed a bug where calling setCurrentIndex() did not update the view correctly. Removed extra emit of the expanded() signal on already expanded branches. - QTreeWidget Fixed tristate check item behavior. - QTabWidget Fixed bug that caused missing resize when dynamically adding widgets. Fixed text positioning in a tab with an icon. - QTemporaryFile Fixed issue where calling open() could potentially change the file name. - QTextDocument Improved stability when importing incorrectly formed html tables. Improved stability when importing closing tags without corresponding opening tags. - QTextStream Ensure valid codec converter state after calling seek(0). Fixed issue where readAll() would not work with sequential devices. - QTabBar Improve handling of tab removal. - QUrl Improve handling of hostnames containing digits. Fix crash when calling hasQueryItem() on QUrl without any query items. Added support for parsing file names with '[' and ']' characters. - QVariant Improve operator==() behavior when comparing different types. The QVariant(const char *) constructor is now unavailable when QT_NO_CAST_TO_ASCII is set. Otherwise, it uses QString::fromAscii to convert the const char * to a Unicode QString to prevent loss of information. - QWidget Fix regression in setMask(). Fixed issue where incorrect minimum size was reported after reparenting from a top level widget. Fixed return value of normalGeometry() after the widget has been maximized. Fixed crash on application exit if the widget was created before the widget mapper is initialized. - QXpmHandler Fixed handling of non-transparent XPM images. - XMLInputReader Fixed issue where entities in XML files were not resolved. - QXmlSimpleReader A significant (approx. 50x) speedup in QXmlSimpleReader when parsing documents which contain internal or external entities. - Q3DataTable Drivers not supporting the QuerySize feature would display one row of data too little. - Q3IconView Fixed selection appearance. - Q3TextEdit Fixed focus indicator tabbing through tables. Fixed coloring when inserting text after use of setColor(). - Q3TabDialog Added missing selected() signal - Q3ListView Fixed occasional crashes when deleting items. Fixed wrong label after addLabel(QString()). - Q3ScrollView Fixed default focus policy for deriving classes. - Q3ToolBar Q3Action::setOn() now works correctly. Adding an action now sets all action properties correctly. - Q3ActionGroup Fix drop down drawing error. - Q3MainWindow Fixed a regression in setUsesIconText(). Platform-Specific changes ------------------------- Windows: - QApplication Timers now continue to fire when windows enters a modal event loop. - QAxServer Fixed issue where updateRegistry() would report success, even though the operation failed. Fixed comparison of class attributes. - QAxWidget Support parameters of type short* and char* in signal/slots. - QClipboard Make sure the dataChanged() signal is emitted correctly. - QColordialog Fixed various selection issues in WindowsXP style. - QDockWidget Improve the look of title bar buttons. Improved appearance of dock widget title and frame. - QFileDialog Improve handling of path names with special characters. Maintain modality chain when showing a native modal inside a qt modal. Speedup when browsing dirs containing broken shortcuts. - QHeaderView Improved header highlighting in WindowsXP style. - QInputDialog Calling setText() also selects all text to be consistent with other platforms. - QLabel Improved appearance when disabled. - QLineEdit Make QLineEdit respect the XP color scheme. - QOpenGL Added workaround for missing OpenGL sample buffers on the Mobile Intel 915GM Express Chipset. Fixed rendering into a QPixmap. - QPainter Improve Type 1 font rendering. Improved performance of font rendering. Use the standard fallback fonts for Asian languages. - QPrinter Fixed issue where the orientation for a QPrinter would be ignored. Fix PCL printer line drawing bug. - QPrintDialog Fix unhandled exception when a print dialog is launched from within Visual Studio. - QPrintEngine Ensure correct pageRect() and paperRect() when printer resolution is set manually. - QTableView Improved checkbox coloring within selections. - QUdpSocket Better handling when sending to an unbound port. - QWidget Fix setWindowOpacity() flicker. - QWindowsXPStyle Fixed QApplication::setStyle() if called before construction of the application object. - QWorkSpace Improve window resizing. Improve title bar and button appearance in XP style. Improved focus handling. Fixed update of child masks on style change. Fixed restore action not being enabled on maximize and minimize. Fixed a potential crash in maximizeWindow(). X11: Reintroduced qt_x11_set_global_double_buffer() for binary compatibility. Improved tablet event handling. - QApplication The KeypadModifier is now set when NumLock is enabled. - QBitmap Fixed text drawing errors under some fontconfig settings. - QLibrary isLibrary() now returns true for .a and .so on AIX. - qmake Improved stability when modifying environment variables Allow '/' as a path separator on all platforms. - QPaintEngine Fixed issue where filling and stroking ellipses could leave pixel gaps. - QPainter Implemented Porter-Duff composition support. Fix artifacts when drawing aliased primitives with an alpha pen. Fixed issue where rotating pixmaps could add a pixel row in some cases. Fixed drawing of arcs of less than 1 degree. Made drawText() honor the Qt::TextWrapAnywhere flag. - QPrinter Fixed cleanup of child processes. - QPrintDialog Fixed problems when using "From page" and "To page" spin boxes. Made it impossible to choose "OK" when no printers are configured. - QProcess Fixed possible deadlock when calling startDetatched(). - QScrollArea Catch double click also when size exceeds window system size limits. - QTextEdit Fixed an issue where the horizontal scrollbar did not show up. - QWorkspace Fixed missing mouse event propagation to child widgets. Mac OS X: General fixes to the drag and drop support. Improved performance when resizing widgets. Fixed font issues for input methods with Japanese. Fixed issue with pasting Japanese text. Correctly set architecture and SDKROOT when creating a Xcode project. - QCursor Fix alpha pixmap cursors. - QDesktopWidget Improve stability when changing users. - QDockWidget Improve dock widget appearance. - QGroupBox More conformant styling. - QHeaderView Fix text truncating issue on headers. - QLabel Fix labels painted incorrectly when using MacMetalStyle. - QMenu Improved menu styling. Improved popup appearance. - QPainter Add support for SmoothPixmap transform. - QPushButton Make Mac style obey the icon size set by setIconSize(). Make sure buttons are not shown as default on inactive windows. - QPrintEngine Fixed truncated PDF generation of large documents. - QSplashScreen Fix painting errors when using showMessage(). - QTextEdit Fixed focus issues with Japanese input. Fixed issue with pasting Unicode text between applications. - QToolBar Improve tool bar appearance. - QTextFormat Fixed a crash when setting a font's pixel size to -1. - QWorkSpace Improve workspace children appearance. - Q3TextEdit Fixed a crash in paragraphRect() when all content had been deleted. - Q3ListViewItem Fixed a infinite loop when editing an item. Qtopia Core: Removed flickering when mouse cursor is above an animation. Optimized use of shared memory. Optionally use iwmmxt intrinsics to optimize painting. Added a simple example on how to calibrate touch screen mouse handlers. - Fonts Handle BDF fonts without the PIXEL_SIZE property. Added Chinese and Japanese fonts. - PDF Support PDF font embedding. - qvfb Fixed a crash when increasing the display size in the configuration dialog. - QPixmap Implement QPixmap::grabWindow(). 3rd-party libraries ------------------- - FreeType Fix memory leak.