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VCF - A Free BSD Competitor To Trolltech's Qt?

Posted by simoniker on from the atari-vcf dept.

TioHoltzman writes "There's a new 0-6-5 release available of the VCF, aka the Visual Component Framework. This release has a slew of new features, and it looks like it could become a real contender against Trolltech's Qt toolkit. It currently runs on Win32 platforms with an active Mac OS X port underway. There's still lots to do, but it can run some of the samples now on OS X. There are some screenshots here (1), here (2), and here (3)."

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  1. It's not that I'm against advertising... by david.given · · Score: 3, Insightful
    ...but if you're going to post an advertisement, say it's an advertisement! Tio Holtzmann is a direct spokesman for VCF; submitting a story as if it was written by a third party is dishonest and makes the whole editorial process at Slashdot look shabby.

    Well, shabbier.

    At least the submitter is a real user with a history, and wasn't created as a marketing ploy; but would it have been so hard to stick 'Disclaimer: I'm one of the developers!' at the bottom?

    1. Re:It's not that I'm against advertising... by Senjutsu · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Perhaps, but when every single developer who runs into the project keeps asking why this is not getting more press and being written up on slashdot, maybe that says something to?

      It does. It says:

      Keep improving your project, and eventually it will get noticed, used, and become popular enough that some impartial third party will become excited enough to submit a story about something related to it (Ask Slashdot: Why isn't VCF more well known?, perhaps),

      On the other hand, what it doesn't say is:

      Submit a story to slashdot pretending you aren't the lead developer while the project is still in its early and butt ugly stages and has no compelling advantage over any of its competitors, thereby irritating and alienating the very audience that might otherwise have cared about it. You want to advertise your own project, submit it to Freshmeat again, FFS. It's not windows only anymore.

      If the only person who cares enough to submit something about your project is you, be up front about it. Don't try to con people into believing otherwise. This is hella lame.

    2. Re:It's not that I'm against advertising... by asdfghjklqwertyuiop · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I don't like doing this anymore than you do but it seems that's what it takes to get a submission accepted.


      When all else fails, just lie...
  2. Re:Frameworks arent platform specific by winfx · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I cannot understand how a free GUI, can become a standard on win32 when Windows next version are converting to Avalon (winfx) abandoning win32 and when is based on C++ RTTI (only C++ can take advantage of it) when Windows present and future is .NET and C#.

  3. Re:What am I missing? by JabberWokky · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Yes, but Qt isn't a GUI toolkit, it is an application development framework and language extension (Database abstraction, application scripting, Signals and Slots, the foreach loop, etc). All I see here is a GUI toolkit. GUI widgets and layout comprise only a small part of what Qt is.

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    Evan

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    "$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
  4. Re:All hat and no cattle. by jhunsake · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't listen to these assholes. If I still programmed in C++, I'd definately consider using VCF.

  5. Re:What am I missing? by e8johan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The product seems to be missing database support. That is pretty much a requirement to compete with Qt. Many, if not most, custom applications used in businesses today use databases in some way.