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Published inJul 2019
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John Werner
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John Werner is an internationally published author, engineer, consultant, and conference speaker with more than 15 years' experience. He has earned patents for inventions ranging from Inkjet printers to automotive ignition systems. John was one of the early users of Qt on QNX and contributed to the early knowledge of how to make it work. He is a contributor to the Qt-related information on Stack Exchange. He is currently a senior software engineer, specializing in Qt development, for Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics.
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Remote GUI

We live in an age of web-connected devices, and the marketing department wants to be able to say that BigProject can be accessed from the web:

  • Req 24: The system shall be accessible through a web client.

One of the more interesting features to emerge from Qt in 5.12 is support for remote GUIs using WebGL. Using this, the GUI for an application is accessed through a WebGL-compatible web browser (in other words, Chrome, Edge, or Safari).

QML-based applications can be run through WebGL by simply instructing them to run against the WebGL display platform:

[On Target]$ your-qt-application -platform webgl:port=port#

Preparing the Target

The distribution of Yocto we are using comes with a firewall already enabled on...

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John Werner is an internationally published author, engineer, consultant, and conference speaker with more than 15 years' experience. He has earned patents for inventions ranging from Inkjet printers to automotive ignition systems. John was one of the early users of Qt on QNX and contributed to the early knowledge of how to make it work. He is a contributor to the Qt-related information on Stack Exchange. He is currently a senior software engineer, specializing in Qt development, for Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics.
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