After 3 weeks of bug fixing, I'm happy to announce the immediate availability of Pacu 1.2.2. The most crucial bugfix closes crashes on haXe files. Furthermore syntax highlighting got improved for all languages, mostly affecting Ruby and haXe (see also the notes below on Textmate themes). On OS X you can now use the Finder to open files. Pacu delivers for most of the supported file types icons and needed Launch Service integration.

Changelog Summary

• improved detection of haXe compiler messages
• improved conversion of the Textmate...

If you never heard about haXe before, you definitely missed the interception of one of the most powerful programming languages to date. It compiles extremely fast, it is light-weight, it focuses on generating safe and correct code. It has very accurate error reporting. It is neither strict nor duck typed, but instead delivers the best of both. It gives you back the feeling of the Turbo, which was lost long ago. It makes you consider writing code for f...

I'm happy to announce the immediate availability of Pacu 1.2. This version is mainly a bug fix and feature consolidation release. Besides lots of bug fixes, it brings two major improvements: Wider language support for syntax highlighting and a more native build for OS X. The Charcoal highlighting engine was extended to read case-insensitive grammars and adds supports for the following languages: Actionscript 3, haXe, CSS2, Tex/LaTex and SQL. For the haX...

Can I render widgets with Cairo in Qt? I'm probably not the first one asking this question. Cairo gained much momentum in the last few years. It now delivers well maintained graphics backends for xlib/xrender, Quartz and even the win32 legacy. I will show for short on how to use Cairo on a QPixmap on Linux/Xorg. In principle it should be the same easy on the other platforms.

Linker flags for your qmake *.pro file:

unix:INCLUDEPATH += /usr/include/glib-2.0 /usr/lib/glib-2.0/include /usr/include/cairo /usr/include/pango-1.0
unix:LIBS += -L/us...