The Qt 4 Resource Center

e8johan writes "The Qt 4 Resource Center features articles regarding the next generation of Qt. Being the basis for the next generation of KDE and being available under GPL for all major platforms Qt 4 will make it even easier to develop powerful cross-platform applications."

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Let the free market work.

[CyricZ]

Let the free market work its magic. If their prices are truly too high, then the demand for Qt will drop, and they will be forced to lower their prices. Since that is not happening, then there must be shops which can afford to pay their licencing fee. And considering that they're most likely financially stable, there must be enough people willing to pay at that price.

Now, if YOU can't afford it, then try some of the other open source alternatives. There is always wxWindows, FOX, FLTK, GTK+, the multiple GTK+ C++ wrappers, and so on.

Qt4 and extra compile phase?

[Paradox]

Despite being a Qt3.3 developer, I've had almost no chance to check out any of the buzz on Qt4. What I want to know is, are they going to find a more elegant and in-language way to handle signals and slots, preferably one that does not require the use of an extra compile phase?

I'm all for meta-language programming. I love it. But not at the expense of an extra compile phase which complicates my makefiles and can introduce errors that were introduced when the generated code was inserted. I'm happy that Qt4 will finish opening up as a GPL'd library (that removes one of my biggest complaints about Qt), but are my technical concerns also going to be invalidated?

To me, this extra phase and the awkwardness of signals and slots syntax is a real weakness when compared to frameworks like Cocoa that don't need to resort to it. Now, I understand dynamic dispatch is hard in C++, but if the Boost people can get HOF-aware template-based lambdas, I'm certain that TrollTech could do better.