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BB10: Create your first app
June 24, 2012

Tutorial at:

https://developer.blackberry.com/cascades/documentation/getting_started/first_app/index.html

The tutorial instructs you:

"In the QNX Momentics IDE, click File > New > BlackBerry Cascades C++ Project."

But "BlackBerry Cascades C++ Project" isn't one of the options.

Instead, you have to select Other, and then browse under the BlackBerry Cascades folder.

I needed to select Project -> Build Configurations -> Set Active -> Simulator Debug.

Both the QML and C++ UI tutorials were straightforward and the resulting app is pretty slick!

Two minor comments:

First:

QObject::connect(opacitySlider, SIGNAL(valueChanging(float)),
        day, SLOT(setOpacity(float)));

... strikes me as somewhat novel. I'll have to see other examples of this to get a sense for the limitations of this approach, etc.

My other comment is that having to write:

HorizontalAlignment::Center

... every time is a bit verbose. But I suppose that is the cost one must pay for constructing a UI in C++ code rather than QML.


BB10 Blogging
June 24, 2012

As I start learning BB10, I'm going to use my website as a place to log what I'm learning and doing.

The log can be viewed as:

http://www.danielbigham.ca/cgi-bin/blog.pl?keywords=bb10