QTableWidget was a major bottleneck for large merge sources (#217). This is because a QTableWidgetItem needed to be created for every field in every record of the merge data, whether they are being displayed or not. This was not a problem for small merge sources (only a few dozen records max), however for larger data sets this would severely affect performance and make the application unresponsive. QTableView only renders the fields and records currently visible.
- Increased polling interval from 1s to 10s
- Use QtConcurrent::run to initiate a poll asynchronously to main event loop
- Do not initiate a poll if the previous poll has not completed
- Use copies instead of references to mCurrentAvailablePrinters in public API
- Allow printer selection directly from PrintView
- Print button bypasses the system print dialog, since label printing is quite different from typical printing tasks
- Separate button to optionally use system print dialog, if needed
- New baseline minimum platform is Ubuntu 22.04
- Qt6 requires at least 6.2
- some deprecations may be flagged on later versions (e.g. 6.8)
- CMake requires at least 3.22
- Include build-tests.yml github action to validate builds on mulitple platforms
- QtTest is no longer optional since it easily comes along for the ride with Qt
- Replaced QStringRef in model::SubstitutionField with simple ParserState class
- Removed deprecations up to Qt 6.2
- Added "roll" as a special paper id
- Added roll_width attribute to draw tape in previews
- Updated Brother QL-500/* label templates
- Preserve print dialog settings between print jobs.
- Added path based labels for arbitrary shaped labels.
- Fleshed out implementation of continuous labels.
The width is determined at runtime based on the largest page in the
QTabWidget. Without this fix, the side panel would annoyingly change
width as you selected the search tab for the first time -- this was
particularly annoying in the de_DE locale.
Note: must currently use QGuiApplication instead of QCoreApplication to
support QFont. Unfortunately, this means that glabels-batch must run
within a windowing system. Ideally, it would not have this requirement.
Jaye Evins
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