Qt 3.3.5 is a bug-fix release. It maintains both forward and backward

compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 3.3.4, Qt 3.3.3, Qt 3.3.2,

Qt 3.3.1 and Qt 3.3.0.

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*                           General                                        *

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Platforms

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- Qt now supports Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)

Compilers

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- Added support for VS 2005

- Added support for GCC 4

Windows Installer

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- The environment variables no longer contain invalid paths.

- The user is warned if QTDIR is not set and the evaluation edition is

  already installed, to avoid conflicts between the two packages.

- A bug was fixed where a '\0' was appended to the end of a path.

- Fixed the dependencies for image formats and styles.

Qt Designer

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- Fixed a problem with long string literals on certain Visual Studio

  C++ compilers.

- UIC now uses the include hints from the .ui file when generating

  source files.

- The "paste" action is now enabled and disabled correctly.

- QWidgetFactory::supportsWidget() now returns true for QSplitter.

- Parse files with more than one '.' in the file name correctly.

- The project name is now displayed correctly also when the project is

  created in a root directory.

- Fixed a bug where Windows end-of-line terminators would be included

  in string literals, which broke translation.

- Several crashes were fixed related to cutting/copying/pasting menu

  items.

- Fixed some problems with designer generating corrupted pro files.

- A crash was fixed for when designer loads a pro file with the same

  file listed more than once.

- The action editor is now closed when there is no main window form.

- Stability fixes

Qt Linguist

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- lupdate now understands strings longer than 16384 characters.

- Fixed escaping bugs for string that contain both ampersands and

  double quotes.

Qt Assistant

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- When printing, assistant now always uses the Active color group.

- Fixed a rendering bug for paragraphs that start with a line break.

- Support for setting the documentation root path, allowing

  documentation files to be moved.

- When opening a link in a new window, assistant will now properly

  scroll to the correct anchor after the window has been shown.

- Fixed full text search for documents not listed in the 'ref'

  attribute of the <section> tag in the current .adp file.

- The state of the forward/backward buttons now work properly when the

  tabs are changed.

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General Fixes

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Added security patches for zlib: CAN-2005-1849, CAN-2005-2096

The FreeType library was upgraded from version 2.0.9 to 2.1.9

- Build system

        Improved build keys for gcc 4 compilers, so plugins no longer

        need rebuilding after upgrading gcc to a new patch release.

- QCanvas

        Fixed wrong text scaling and cut-off text.

        Fixed drawing with a brush when double buffering is enabled.

- QCommonStyle

        Fixed the appearance of QSlider after setBackgroundOrigin has

        been called.

        Fixed an overflow in calculating the handle position for

        QScrollBar.

- QCString

        Fixed a crash in qUncompress() if the resulting QByteArray was

        too large to fit in memory.

        Fixed potential security problems by using vsnprintf() instead

        of the less secure vsprintf().

- QDataStream

        Fixed a data corruption bug when using stream version Qt_3_1 and using

        operator<<(qint64).

- QDateTime

        Fixed QDateTime::secsTo() when crossing daylight savings hours

        boundaries.

- QDockWindow

        Undocked windows now remember their size also if the user

        changes it.

- QDom

        The default constructor for QDocDocument now creates an empty

        document that can be used to create elements.

        A warning is now displayed when trying to construct or save an

        invalid document.

        Characters that are not allowed in XML are now escaped

        properly when saving.

- QFileDialog

        Shortcuts now show the icons of what they point to.

        Entry sorting is now locale-aware, as opposed to sorting based

        on Unicode order.

        You can now select files by pressing 'enter' when using

        QFileDialog::getOpenFileNames().

        Fixed a missing repaint in contents preview after selecting a

        file, then a directory, then the same file again.

        dirPath() no longer chops off the last directory in a path.

- QGVector

        Fixed a bug that caused a memory leak and data corruption if

        resize() failed.

- QHeader

        The header text is now rendered correctly next to the icon in

        reverse layout mode.

- QImage

        Fixed comparison of images with alpha data, but with the alpha

        channel disabled.

- QKeySequence

        Key sequences that ended with a ',' now work properly.

- QLineEdit

        Fixed the behavior of the delete key on the keypad.

        Fixed support for transparent line edits.

        Fixed a crash when opening the context menu in a QTextEdit

        subclass that returns 0 for createPopupMenu().

- QListBox

        Fixed a crash when removing the current item while selecting

        items with a rubberband.

- QListView

        Fixed the behavior of the Home and End keys when QListView

        contains disabled and hidden items.

        Fixed a problem with the QListView::...Clicked() signals were

        emitted also when the root decorated section was not in the

        left-most column.

        HTML control characters in QListView's tool tip text are now

        escaped properly.

        sortChildren() now also sorts children of items with no

        siblings.

        Fixed a missing redraw after removing columns.

        contentsWidth() now returns the correct value after

        setContentsWidth() has been called.

        Fixed a crash after a sequence of deleting and selecting

        items.

        Fixed the size of headers with multi-line text.

        Fixed a lock-up and possible crash caused by an internal state

        restore on controllers with no children.

        Fixed keyboard navigation when jumping to entries by pressing

        the key for the first character in the text of an item.

- QLocale

        Fixed support for NaN, which failed on certain compilers.

        Passing Q_LLONG to toString() now properly includes the group

        symbols.

        Fixed locale detection when locale environment variables are

        not set.

        Added workarounds for compiler optimization bugs when parsing

        doubles.

- QLocalFS

        Fixed a crash when canceling a QUrlOperator transfer before

        completion.

- QMenuData

        Fixed a crash when closing an MDI application while the menu

        bar has Alt-focus.

- QMessageBox

        Message boxes now work correctly in right-to-left mode.

- QPaintDevice

        Fixed drawing errors when using bitBlt() on a printer.

- QPainter

        Fixed drawing of rectangles with a negative (or 0) width.

- QPopupMenu

        The height of new columns is now initialized properly when

        menu items are shown in multiple columns.

- QProcess

        Close socket connections properly when a

        process is created after creating the socket connection.

- QPSPrinter

        Generate PS font names correctly.

- QPushButton

        Fixed a crash caused by deleting the button while the popup

        menu is shown.

- QRichText

        Tab stops are now adjusted correctly when printing in high

        resolution mode.

        Reduced the number of memory allocations when deleting large

        blocks of text.

        Fixed parsing of hexadecimal HTML entities

        Fixed a bug where the font changed after calling setText()

        repeatedly.

- QScriptEngine

        Fixed an issue with shaping of Hebrew text, which lead to

        layout problems in QTextLayout.

        Fixed rendering of Hebrew text with punctuation.

        Fixed bugs in Gurmukhi shaping.

- QScrollView

        Fixed the size hint when scrollbars are set to be permanently

        on.

        Fixed a drawing error seen on certain graphics drivers when a

        scroll view spans multiple screens.

        Fixed a bug where wheel events' horizontal/vertical status

        were not forwarded to viewportWheelEvent().

        Fixed a crash when mouse wheel events were sent to a scroll

        view with disabled scroll bars.

- QSettings

        Fixed a bug when comparing keys with common prefixes.

- QSGIStyle

        Fixed the size of QComboBox.

- QSizeGrip

        Fixed a bug that caused the window to move when resizing to

        the minimum size using the size grip.

- QSocketDevice

        Improved error reporting when the connection is unexpectedly

        closed.

        Fixed a bug where the socket would be closed if 0 was passed

        as maxlen to readBlock().

- QString

        Fixed a lock-up in QString::section().

        Let replace() behave as documented when the index is larger

        than the length of the string.

- QTable

        Fixed positioning of QComboTableItems that span several rows.

- QTextCodec

        Fixed occasional crash in fromUnicode().

        Fixed Big5 support to comply with the standards.

- QTextEdit

        Fixed bug in undo/redo history when input methods are used.

        Fixed a crash caused by inserting text with an input method

        during a focus change.

        Fixed the behavior of the delete key on the keypad.

        Fixed setMaxLogLines() when there are already too many lines.

        Fixed crash when clearing a QTextEdit when the IME is active.

        Fixed crash when the text edit is deleted while dragging text.

- QTextLayout

        Fixed layout of lines that are too long and do not contain a

        possible break point.

- QTimeEdit

        Fixed several issues with stepUp() and stepDown().

- QToolButton

        Fixed a crash when assigning a tooltip to a tool button which

        does not have QMainWindow as an ancestor.

- QToolTip

        Fixed an occasional crash.

- QTranslator

        Fixed a bug when calling messages() before tr() when using

        compressed .qm files.

- QUrlOperator

        Fixed a crash when accessing invalid paths on an FTP server

        using QFileDialog.

        Fixed a bug where the source would be removed if the source

        and destination were the same.

- QVariant

        Fixed a memory leak in clear().

- QWidget

        Fixed excessive flicker when reparenting a widget that has

        tool windows.

- QWorkspace

        Fixed flickering when switching between maximized windows.

        Fixed a lock-up when modal dialogs were created with

        QWorkspace as parent.

        Fixed a bug where modeless dialogs with QWorkspace as parent

        would be drawn with no title bar.

- SQL, DB2 driver

        Compile fixes.

        Fixed a bug where QSqlCursor::insert() would fail to insert

        two blob fields at the same time.

- SQL, MySQL driver

        Fixed a crash when using empty database names.

- SQL, Oracle driver

        Fixed truncation of numeric data types to 22 digits.

        Fixed UTF-8 support by ensuring that there is enough space to

        store the text.

- SQL, ODBC driver

        Fixed problems with sorting and comparing strings larger than

        8192 characters.

- SQl, PostgreSQL driver

        Temporary tables are now only visible for the connection that

        created them.

- SQL, TDS driver

        Fixed problems with compiling the plugin with later versions

        of the TDS library.

- SVG support

        Fixed support for SVG viewbox.

        Added basic support for stroke-dasharray.

Platform-Specific Issues

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Windows:

- ActiveQt

        Unrelated types are no longer converted.

        The control container is now only reset if the CLSID changes.

        Fixed a bug where QAxObject::clear() did not reset the

        metaobject when it was cached.

        Fixed a memory leak.

        Fixed a bug that caused flicker when navigating away from a

        page embedding a control.

        The VARIANT out-parameters in signals now map to "QVariant &"

        and not "const QVariant &".

        Signal parameters of type "bool" are marshalled to the bool

        slot also when the control sends an integer parameter.

- Drag & drop

        Fixed a bug with sending single-color pixmaps.

        Fixed a crash caused by reading a drag object after it has

        been deleted (before the drop event).

        Dragged pixmaps are now cleaned up before drawn to avoid

        problems with broken alpha values and resetting masked pixels.

- QApplication

        Fixed a lockup caused by showing a dialog while resizing a

        window.

        QWidget::grabKeyboard() now also grabs the menu button.

        Fixed a bug where mouse events were sent to the wrong widget

        after calling QEventLoop::processEvents() with

        ExcludeUserInput.

        Windows Server 2003 can now also use the Windows XP style.

        Fixed a memory leak in QEventLoop.

- QColor

        Fixed failed initialization of the Qt colors (e.g., Qt::red) when

        using the MinGW compiler.

- QFile

        Fixed a bug where a read error was not handled properly.

- QFileInfo

        permission() now uses the correct file name on Windows 9x.

- QFontDataBase

        Added support for scalable fonts.

- QFontEngine

        Fixed a problem with symbol fonts.

        Fixed support for user defined characters.

- QLibrary

        Fixed the directory separators.

        Fixed some library loading errors.

- QLocale

        The locale() function now returns the correct ISO name instead

        of a number.

- QNPWidget (NPAPI)

        Fixed a bug where the widget was not clipped properly by the

        browser.

- QPainter

        Fixed a bug where QPainter failed to fill ellipses of size

        2x2.

        Fixed a potential lock-up after failed GDI allocations.

- QPrinter

        Rich text tables are now printed correctly when the table

        spans pages.

        Fixed text printing errors on page 2 and out caused by the

        background mode being reset to OPAQUE.

- QProcess

        The directory separators for the current working directory are

        now converted properly, so that a UNC path can be used on

        Windows.

- QTranslator

        Fixed an issue with isReadable() on NTFS.

- QWindowsXPStyle

        XP style now works when compiled as a plugin.

        Fixed menu bar placement.

        Fixed a bug in setting the background color of QTabWidget.

        Fixed the position of the size grip in large QSizeGrip

        widgets.

        QGroupBox now uses the correct colors.

- QWorkspace

        Fixed bug where hidden windows would be shown after restoring

        from maximized mode.

- qmake

        The Makefile generator now only searches for the latest

        version of the Qt library, as opposed to searching all

        libraries.

        Dependency checking for pre-compiled headers were fixed.

        Fixed support for listing .pro files in SUBDIRS in subdir .pro

        files.

        Fixed support for multiple -L and -I entries in QMAKE_LIBS.

Mac:

- Build system

        When using Xcode, the optimization level is set to 0 in debug

        mode.

        Added support for Xcode 2.1 and up.

        Fixed copying of target files when DESTDIR is set.

- Drag & drop

        Fixed a crash when deleting the drag object before dropping.

- QApplication

        The default font is now only set if the user has not set one.

        Fixed a problem where popup menus would not go away after

        releasing the mouse button outside the popup.

        Added support for dual axis mouse wheels.

        Fixed a bug in tablet identification.

        Added support for tablet erasers.

        Fixed a deadlock in postEvent() when there was contention for

        a wakeup.

        Fixed a crash when switching displays at the same time as

        QApplication is destroyed.

        Stability fixes.

- QColorDialog

        Fixed modality support.

- QFileDialog

        Let the file dialog remember the previous directory.

        Fixed keyboard navigation when jumping to entries using the

        first letter of a file name.

        Fixed a memory leak.

- QFontDatabase

        Fall back to the "Geneva" font, which is guaranteed to be

        available, instead of "Helvetica".

- QFontEngine

        Fixed a memory leak.

        Fixed rendering of glyphs that modify previous glyphs,

        including Indic text.

- QMacStyle

        Title bars are now shown as deactivated when the window is

        deactivated.

        Fixed a bug where buttons in button groups inside a container

        would look like they were pressed.

        Fixed a crash caused by drawing onto a non-pixmap background.

        Fixed the width of QComboBox.

        Improved drawing of size grips.

        Improved drawing of sliders, and made QSlider slightly wider

        by default.

- QMenuBar

        Fixed a lockup caused by menu items ending with an '&'.

        Menu items with disabled popups are now also disabled.

- QMessageBox

        The resize handle is now shown.

- QPainter

        Fixed double transformation of ellipses with a transformed

        width or height of 1.

- QPixmap

        Fixed a crash when loading a cursor from an embedded image.

        The color depth is now set properly when converting a QBitmap.

- QPrinter

        Fixed a crash when using bitBlt() to copy a QBitmap onto a

        printer.

- QProcess

        Fixed support for launching bundles.

- QPushButton

        Icons are now drawn properly.