Qt For The Console

lintux writes: "You probably know Qt as the fine toolkit for the less-fine X. Today something cool reached a stable state: Qt for the console. A Qt library port which allows you to port Qt programs to the console! Just imagine a full-featured web browser like Konqueror, on a 386 text-machine! I tried some things, and I never want to use w3m or lynx again, I can tell you that!" Update by HeUnique:While I do approve of the job these guys have done on console QT, I believe they may need to properly relicense their project under the GPL.

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main.cpp

[GreenHell]

#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
#include
#endif

#include
#include

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
cout "Hello, World! It is April Fools :)" endl;

return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

April Fools! :)

Although this is entirely fake...

[GoRK]

Although this is a big april fools hoax, a real example of a GUI that works on the console can be found over at PicoGUI. (as featured formerly on /. and elsewhere)

The display framework of PicoGUI is so extensible that it will work on everything from a text-only 2 line LCD display (or smaller) up to a fully realized 3d environment courtesy of OpenGL (needs someone to code it but the OpenGL "display" driver is already in there).

Some examples:

X-Chat/PicoGUI running using PicoGUI's ncurses driver on the console:
http://www.picogui.org/sshotdetail.php?index=47

A couple of PicoGUI apps running on a 4 line Text LCD:
http://www.picogui.org/sshotdetail.php?index=64

PicoGUI running on OpenGL:
http://www.picogui.org/sshotdetail.php?index=60

This is mostly possible because of PicoGUI's strict distinction between content and presentation (Remember the design goal of the original HTML? - Bingo.) Anyway, it's a neat project to check out; the support for this is in and working now; it runs on everything under the sun; and development continues to progress at an extremely rapid pace.

~GoRK