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Cross-Platform Development For Windows and OS X
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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For an OSS product. We seem to get a lot of those around here
Qt's controls are all emulated, it's like using Java Swing when you can use SWT instead.
Well, they don't look emulated or feel emulated, unlike java. But hey, I'm sure there's some technical reason you're right and noone cares.
Further more, it requires you to use non-standard c++ syntax together with a 'qt preprocessor'.
Yep. Which is what permits it to use a signal-slot mechanism which spanks wxWidgets and any other C++ system out there. No more crashes due to dangling pointers, yay!
The better choice is wxWidgets. It supports platforms, more compilers, has native controls, and it is open source.
Qt supports plenty platforms, plenty compilers, much better UI design tools and it's open source. I could mention it's a much better library too, but now you're just embarassing yourself.
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wxWidgets: supports more platforms and it is TRUE open source in that they don't charge you if you use it commercially. Enough said.
No, it's really not enough said. If you want to get paid for your work then they should get paid for theirs.
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