QtDD13 - Oliver Heggelbacher & Frankie Simon - fullmo Kickdrive -- Qt Quick in Industry Automation
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Channel: Qt Group · 2014 · Science & Technology
Lightning talk from Qt Developer Days 2013 in Berlin Abstract: Or: how to give users a dynamic playground, while hiding away the complex machinery behind it. The Kickdrive software platform is a multi-layered and multi-language approach to industrial machine configuration and control. Qt Quick allows for beautiful and highly adaptable user interaction on top of a C++/QWidget application. In Kickdrive, the QML files are part of the project data -- something that comes as a ready-to-use template, but the users can hack and change it to their liking. They touch up, tweak and extend their project UIs, evolving into co-developers of sorts. We will show off how we cross boundaries and connect the dots: from the Qt Quick UI via Python Scripting, a C++ multithreaded signal-slot logic, Windows USB and finally the actual industrial field bus communication. To make things move in real life. Oh, and we'll bring along some gear. Presenter Bio: Oliver Heggelbacher is a managing partner of Flachmann & Heggelbacher, the makers of www.docklight.de and www.kickdrive.de. He builds reliable and easy-to-use software for engineers, and discovered Qt in 2005. Originally from South Germany, he lives and works both inside and outside his home country. He is known to pick up a guitar and sing. Frankie Simon is a software engineer, working with the Qt platform and previously with .NET. Born in Lithuania in 1983, living between Israel and France, he is also a pianist and speaks five languages. His allergy to cats has disappeared two years ago.
