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author Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
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Here is a list of user-visible changes in Qt from 1.41 to 1.42.  The
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usual bugfixes have been added.
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* 			     New classes				   *
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*		       Enhancements from 1.41 to 1.42			   *
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The Windows version now builds as a DLL.
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The file dialog has various UI tweaks.
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More sanity checks have been added.
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On X11, the postscript output from a few programs will be much smaller
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than it used to be.
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Windows 98 is now treated as a separate version of Windows, like NT
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and Windows 95.
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The keyboard interface of buttons groups/dialogs has been improved.
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QMultiLineEdit avoids flicker in some cicumstances where it would
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flicker up to now.
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*               Changes that might affect runtime behavior                 *
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QKeyEvent now behaves as documented: isAccepted() is TRUE by default
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where it would sometimes default to FALSE.  Some dialogs may depend on
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the bug.  The most likely symptom of such buggy dialogs is that the
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Enter/Return key does not work, and the most likely fix for such bugs
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is to insert "e->ignore();" at the start of keyPressEvent(QKeyEvent*e)
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in such dialogs.
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*               Changes that might generate compile errors                 *
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*                        when compiling old code                           *
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*               Type changes that might generate warnings:                 *
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* 			Deprecated functions				   *
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*			 New global functions				   *
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*      New public/protected functions added to existing classes            *
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