(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.


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