Qt 5.4 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes over the 5.3.x series. For more details, refer to the online documentation included in this distribution. The documentation is also available online: http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5 The Qt version 5.4 series is binary compatible with the 5.3.x series. Applications compiled for 5.3 will continue to run with 5.4. Some of the changes listed in this file include issue tracking numbers corresponding to tasks in the Qt Bug Tracker: http://bugreports.qt-project.org/ Each of these identifiers can be entered in the bug tracker to obtain more information about a particular change. **************************************************************************** * General * **************************************************************************** General Improvements -------------------- - The Declarative State Machine Framework extends Qt's State Machine Framework (QSM) into QML. This gives you the power of deterministic state machines, but declaratively. - Added QML linter tool. Third party components ---------------------- **************************************************************************** * Important Behavior Changes * **************************************************************************** - [QTBUG-40431] When a JavaScript object/array is passed to C++ through a QVariant, the engine no longer immediately converts the object recursively into a QVariantMap or QVariantList but instead stores a QJSValue in the QVariant. This prevents a loss of data when the JS object contains non-primitive types such as function objects for example. Code that expects the variant type to be exactly QVariant::Map or QVariant::List may need to be adapted. Registered conversion functions however ensure that code that merely calls toMap() or toList() continues to work. - [QTBUG-39971] Qt 5.3 changed the mapping of "var" parameters in QML declared signals to QJSValue. This was reverted to the behavior of earlier Qt versions to use QVariant. The original issue of not being able to pass function objects through var parameters of QML declared signals is solved by wrapping a QJSValue inside the QVariant. **************************************************************************** * Library * **************************************************************************** QtQml ----- - qmldir: [QTBUG-41489] added the ability to declare dependencies on other modules in a module definition qmldir file QtQuick ------- - Accessibility for Qt Quick is now included in the qtquick library instead of being a separate plugin. - QQuickWindow will compresses touch events and delivers at most one touch event per frame. - [QTBUG-38539] Added property MouseArea.drag.smoothed for toggling whether the drag target is moved to the current mouse position after a drag operation has started. - [QTBUG-37944] Introduced QQuickRenderControl as a public API. - [QTBUG-37589] Added QQuickWidget::grabFramebuffer() for capturing the content into a QImage. - tools and examples consistently use the QtProject organization name - [QTBUG-40130] Add containsPress property to MouseArea - Added QQuickFontMetrics, which provides a subset of QFontMetricsF's API. - Added QQuickTextMetrics, which provides a declarative API for the functions in QFontMetricsF which take arguments. - Introduced OpenGLInfo attached type that provides information about the currently used OpenGL version. - Images exceeding GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE will be downscaled to fit so they will still show. - [QTBUG-42096] Fixed nodes sometimes disappearing when adding many new nodes to the tree. - Canvas: * Implement antialiasing on FramebufferObject based render targets through super-sampling (SSAA) when framebuffer multisampling is not available. - Important Behavior Changes: * Drag and Drop events now propagate to child items before their parents. * [QTBUG-40329] TextInput::displayText now includes also partial input from an input method and thus matches with the actual displayed text. - Item: * Added functions QQuickItem::grabToImage() and Item::grabToImage() to allow grabbing of items into system-memory images. * When Item.opacity is set to a value outside the range of 0 to 1, it will be clamped. - ListView: * Introduced headerPositioning and footerPositioning properties to control whether header and footer are positioned inline, as overlays, or so that they slide away and can be pulled back regardless of the content position. - QQuickItem: * Added signals sceneGraphInitialized and sceneGraphInvalidated - QQuickWindow: * Added QQuickWindow::scheduleRenderJob(), a convenience alternative to the equivalent signals for one-shot tasks. - SceneGraph: * There might not be an OpenGL context bound when QQuickWindow::sceneGraphInvalidated() is emitted if an error occurs while cleaning up the scene graph (such as EGL_CONTEXT_LOST). This is according to the documentation, but has never occurred in practice before. - TextInput: * Added passwordMaskDelay property * [QTBUG-38934] Added TextInput::ensureVisible(int pos) method to be able to control the scrolling position of a TextInput that has automatic scrolling enabled. - Window: * Added Item.Window attached property QtQuick.Dialogs --------------- - [QTBUG-39365] FontDialog: support keyboard navigation - [QTBUG-39231] FileDialog: added sidebarVisible property and button