Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — Trolltech announced beta 1 of Qt 3.0, the cross platform C++ GUI application framework. This release includes . . .

• Database access
  
• A greatly improved Qt Designer
  
• The first official release of Qt Linguist
  
• Improved International Text Display
  
• New Component Model
  
• Multiple Monitor Support
  
• Plus many… more new features

A more detailed description of the new features in Qt 3.0 is available here. There is also a changes file and a known bugs file.

Qt 3.0 beta 1 can be downloaded here. Qt 3.0 will be released under one of three licenses: Commercial, for developers who want to develop commercial software; Academic, for educational institutions who want to teach Qt on platforms that would otherwise require a Commercial license; and GPL for developers who wish to create free software under the terms of this well-established licensing protocol.

 
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