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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. But will it continue to run on Win32 by Marxist+Hacker+42 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Past Tomorrow?

    I hope it's just me, and the amount of work I've been doing lately on this subject- but XP with SP2 on any AMD processor won't even allow the Windows CE VM to execute in debug mode. What chance does a third party language/compiler/debugger have?

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  2. Missing a couple things? by JabberWokky · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Stuff like the application scripting language, data abstraction, relational database libraries, accelerated 3d, etc. Qt is a bit more than just a visual toolkit at this point, having pulled into it and made platform independant many of the ideas implemented in KDE.

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  3. What am I missing? by I_Love_Pocky! · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why is this just a competitor to QT? Is there something specific about it that makes it directly competitive with QT? Isn't it a windowing framework, making it competitive with GTK and others as well?

    1. Re:What am I missing? by JabberWokky · · Score: 3, Interesting
      Yep - it has all that, which is why I didn't list them in my features of Qt that this dosen't have. Basically, it has all the stuff that is necessary to implement a GUI, and nothing else.

      unlike Qt or WxWidgets, or FOX or whatever, the framework is broken into smaller pieces as opposed to one monolithic library

      Same goes for Qt; the framework is broken out. Some of the enterprise features are sold as options.

      All of the above features are available in the FoundationKit and completely suitable for console/server developement, without any GUI baggage.

      Ditto for Qt.

      As for your last point, Qt already has scripting built in with secure access as opposed to a wrapper for Reflection. You can use several languages as well.

      I'm not saying that this isn't good... I'm just saying that there's quite a bit more to Qt than what is available here and that Qt is quite a bit down the development curve.

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  4. Similar to Delphi? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    After looking at the sample code here:

    http://vcf.sourceforge.net/docs/ref_manual/ch02.ht ml

    I have to say it looks similar to Delphi.
    I don't mind. I think its cool.

  5. Re:It's not that I'm against advertising... by TioHoltzman · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have tried 3 different times to get this story submitted in one way or the other for the past several months (including one earlier today that got rejected within less than an hour!). They have all been rejected. Several other members of the project have also tried repeatedly to get a submission and those too got rejected. I don't like doing this anymore than you do but it seems that's what it takes to get a submission accepted.

  6. Re:It's not that I'm against advertising... by eraserewind · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I have tried 3 different times to get this story submitted in one way or the other for the past several months (including one earlier today that got rejected within less than an hour!). They have all been rejected. Several other members of the project have also tried repeatedly to get a submission and those too got rejected. I don't like doing this anymore than you do but it seems that's what it takes to get a submission accepted.
    But you know, this isn't Freshmeat. It's a discussion forum. Maybe the fact that is was rejected 3 times should tell you something.

    The point release notifications of famous apps like Mozilla are bad enough, but some library we haven't heard of before that does the same as a bunch of other libraries out there?

    If the news that Mozilla or OpenOffice or something like that was switching to VCF then it might be newsworthy.
  7. Re:Documentation by Brandybuck · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So why the hell can't they document as they write the code? Have they not heard of Doxygen? Oh wait, Doxygen uses Qt, so they can't do that...

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