Qt 5.7 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes over the 5.6.x series. For more details, refer to the online documentation included in this distribution. The documentation is also available online: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/index.html The Qt version 5.7 series is binary compatible with the 5.6.x series. Applications compiled for 5.6 will continue to run with 5.7. Some of the changes listed in this file include issue tracking numbers corresponding to tasks in the Qt Bug Tracker: https://bugreports.qt.io/ Each of these identifiers can be entered in the bug tracker to obtain more information about a particular change. **************************************************************************** * Controls * **************************************************************************** - General * [QTBUG-35754] Enabled using the module in statically built applications. * Added support for a QT_QUICK_CONTROLS_1_STYLE environment variable, which takes priority over the existing variable QT_QUICK_CONTROLS_STYLE. This allows specifying system wide style name preferences separately for Qt Quick Controls 1 and 2. - CheckBox and RadioButton * Added support for tooltips - ScrollView * [QTBUG-41591] Fixed an issue that caused scroll bars to be non- interactive on desktop platforms with touch screens. - Slider * [QTBUG-35972] Fixed wheel scrolling direction when using natural scrolling direction on OS X. **************************************************************************** * Dialogs * **************************************************************************** - General * [QTBUG-45868] Enabled using the module in statically built applications. **************************************************************************** * Layouts * **************************************************************************** - General * QtQuick.Layouts moved to the qtdeclarative repository.