(For Qt), Is it possible for the community (ie anyone outside TrollTech) to write user interface widgets? Cin3 will need to write some specialist widgets -- how will this fit in with the toolkit and the toolkit's development process?
On 30/01/2008, David Kletzli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Qt is *very* cross-platform. I don't have experience with wxWidgets, so > they > may be the same, but with Qt, I've usually just required a recompile when > going between OSX, Windows, and Linux. > > Just my humble plug. > > On Tuesday 29 January 2008 23:15, Martin Ellison wrote: > > Several comments to a few of many comments: > > > > - the other problem with the user interface is that it uses its own > > toolkit. You don't want to maintain a GUI toolkit. You want to use > one > > that someone else is maintaining. Actually there are several good > toolkits > > out there (Gnome, Qt, wxWidgets, MS Windows) and it would be nice if (at > > least in principle) anyone could rewrite just the user interface to work > > with their favourite toolkit without too much effort. Myself, I would go > > with wx as it is cross-platform. We may need to build some custom > widgets, > > but then separating out that part of the code into a GUI widget would be > a > > win. -- Regards, Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IT: http://methodsupport.com Personal: http://thereisnoend.org
