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Node-Qt provides native bindings to the Qt library as a Node.js addon. The focus is on graphics and audio bindings; there is no need to duplicate the functionality of the Node API and its modules.
We try to follow Qt's API as closely as possible, but sometimes quirks are inevitable (for example, virtual methods that handle events are translated into callback setters). See the header files in src/
for a list of available bindings, and comments in .cc
files for possible API differences.
For a translation of Qt's APIs into HTML5 APIs, see Node-Five.
Supported platforms: Mac OS X | Windows | Linux
Ever wanted to create native apps directly from Node? Here's a simple example illustrating how to create a native window via QWidget()
and draw via QPainter()
:
var qt = require('node-qt'),
app = new qt.QApplication,
window = new qt.QWidget;
// Prevent objects from being GC'd
global.app = app;
global.window = window;
// Quirk: the virtual method paintEvent() is mapped into a callback setter
window.paintEvent(function() {
var p = new qt.QPainter();
p.begin(window);
p.drawText(20, 30, 'hello node, hello qt');
p.end();
});
window.resize(300, 150);
window.show();
// Join Node's event loop
setInterval(app.processEvents, 0);
From your project directory, run (see below for requirements):
$ npm install node-qt
This will download and build the latest release of Node-Qt in node_modules/
. Then create a new file, say helloworld.js
, copy the example above and run Node as usual:
$ node helloworld
See the examples/ directory for other simple use cases.
Node-Qt was designed to build seamlessly with minimal dependencies on most platforms. The necessary platform-dependent Qt binaries are bundled with the module (due to heterogeneous dependencies, Linux is an exception).
For all platforms: Node >= 0.6.14
$ sudo apt-get install pkg-config qt-sdk
.To download and build the development version:
$ git clone git://github.com/arturadib/node-qt.git
$ cd node-qt
$ npm install
To run the unit tests:
$ node make test
(Ignore the image regression errors - they are based on snapshots that are platform- and backend-dependent).
Please provide a test case for every new binding added. See test/
for examples of unit tests.
qclass.h
, qclass.cc
) from the provided templates src/template.h
, src/template.cc
qclass.*
: search and replace all occurrences of __Template__
, __TEMPLATE__
, and __template__
with the corresponding class namenode-qt.gyp
: Add qclass.cc to sources listqt.cc
: Include qclass.h
qt.cc
: Add QClass::Initialize()
to Initialize()
qclass.h
: Declare static method as per Example()
method in template.h
qclass.cc
: Implement method as per Example()
in template.cc
qclass.cc
: Expose method to JavaScript via tpl->PrototypeTemplate()
call in Initialize()
. Again see template.cc.This is a list of common errors when experimenting with Node addons, and their possible solutions:
"Out of memory"
name
in NODE_MODULE(name, ...)
does not match target name?
"Unable to load shared library"
(v8 object)->Set()
called to register a method, but method implementation
is missing?
"Segmentation fault"
Tough luck :) Did you forget to new
a wrapped object?
FAQs
Qt bindings for Node.js
The npm package node-qt receives a total of 2 weekly downloads. As such, node-qt popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that node-qt demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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