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From: Martin B. on 24 Jan 2010 19:48 Branimir Maksimovic wrote: > Edward Diener wrote: > In general I have >> found that no single GUI library in any language is really excellent >> covering even the major diffwerent GUIs which exist in the popular OSs >> for which one might want to write a cross-platform application. >> > > I think that cross platform programming is getting slowly thing of the > past with all this hype about virtual machines and cloud computing. > (...) I'd say: On the contrary. With GUI-heavy mobile devices on the rise, I would say that x-platform programming is getting more interesting :-) br, Martin -- [ See http://www.gotw.ca/resources/clcm.htm for info about ] [ comp.lang.c++.moderated. First time posters: Do this! ]
From: Martin B. on 24 Jan 2010 19:48 Edward Diener wrote: > Robert Hairgrove wrote: >> Edward Diener wrote: >>> In general I have found that no single GUI library in any language is >>> really excellent covering even the major diffwerent GUIs which exist >>> in the popular OSs for which one might want to write a cross-platform >>> application. >>> >> >> When was the last time you looked at the Qt libs? > > Unfortunately Qt's pricing/licensing destroys its ability to be taken > seriously. What C++ definitely does not need is people telling you how > you can use their library. > Qt is available as LGPL now and I think that is a really acceptable license for basically anyone(*). > Other than that Qt has done a good job but it is still far from robustly > cross-platform IMO nor does it use the latest advances in C++. > While I haven't ever used it professionally, Qt in it's latest incarnation does look very attractive. As you correctly state, one must accept that the Qt code does look very STL-like though and one must accept the meta-object-compiler. br, Martin (*): It seems there are some distribution caveats that I don't fully grasp for mobile devices and such "where the main functionality relies on Qt"[quote http://qt.nokia.com/products/licensing] - whatever that means, but they explicitly state that "For regular desktop applications, there are no royalties, runtime licenses, or other additional costs."[quote http://qt.nokia.com/products/licensing] -- [ See http://www.gotw.ca/resources/clcm.htm for info about ] [ comp.lang.c++.moderated. First time posters: Do this! ]
From: Alex Strickland on 24 Jan 2010 19:48 Martin B. wrote: > If it's halfway decent I'm pretty sure you will be happier with > UnicodeString that with std::string You're right, it does do nice things, but it indexes characters starting from position 1, not 0 - I really dislike that. Regards Alex -- [ See http://www.gotw.ca/resources/clcm.htm for info about ] [ comp.lang.c++.moderated. First time posters: Do this! ]
From: Martin B. on 25 Jan 2010 02:48 Alex Strickland wrote: > Martin B. wrote: > >> If it's halfway decent I'm pretty sure you will be happier with >> UnicodeString that with std::string > > You're right, it does do nice things, but it indexes characters starting > from > position 1, not 0 - I really dislike that. > Wow. Are you sure? I remember that indexing from 1 is a Pascal thing. If they were really so stupid to translate that 1:1 to the C++ class, I personally would trash UnicodeString and use something else. br, Martin -- [ See http://www.gotw.ca/resources/clcm.htm for info about ] [ comp.lang.c++.moderated. First time posters: Do this! ]
From: Jeff Schwab on 26 Jan 2010 05:19
Edward Diener wrote: > Unfortunately Qt's pricing/licensing destroys its ability to be taken > seriously. What C++ definitely does not need is people telling you how > you can use their library. Qt is available under GPL, LGPL, or commercial licenses (at a few thousand USD per seat). It may not be "taken seriously" by you, but it certainly is the basis for a lot of new development, and is probably the closest thing we have to a long-term, cross-platform GUI solution in C++. -- [ See http://www.gotw.ca/resources/clcm.htm for info about ] [ comp.lang.c++.moderated. First time posters: Do this! ] |