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Cross-Platform Development For Windows and OS X

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the two-birds dept.

An anonymous reader writes to let us know about an article in RegDeveloper detailing the use of Qt, Trolltech's cross-platform C++ toolkit, for development across Windows and Mac OS X. From the article: "QT not only goes across desktops but onto embedded devices as well. So any app you write with Qt will port to an embedded device with a frame buffer running Trolltech's embedded version of QT, called QtopiaCore."

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  1. wxWindows by also-rr · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have been doing cross platform development with wxWindows and I have to say it makes it easy. So far I have an application which crashes with exactly the same fault* on Windows, OSX *and* Linux! You just can't buy productivity like that with commercial development frameworks. *Error 5: Developer is an idiot who hasn't programmed much since the BBC Master was cutting edge technology.

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  2. Qtopia? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    How Qt.

  3. Re:First things first by enigma9 · · Score: 3, Funny
    It is QuickTime, not Quicktime.

    My pedantry is bigger than yours.

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  4. Re:And this is news? by ErroneousBee · · Score: 2, Funny

    He probably was referring to the KDE/Gnome flamewars that erupt on slashdot occassionaly. Evenyone knows those arguments are nonsense as Gnome is clearly inferior to KDE in every respect, apart from its gname.

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  5. Re:Better alternative by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    >Another advantage of wxWidgets is its ease porting from MFC due to its similarity.

    That statement by itself is good enough of a reason to discard wxWidgets as a possible alternative for cross-platform development.