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From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: (clug-talk) So my understanding that in order to develop using
MOTIF...
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> On Tuesday 17 June 2003 12:37, J. Rafael S�nchez wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > What do you guys use to develop GUIs using C?
>
> i don't develop GUIs in C, and i don't recommend that anybody do so. use
an OO
> language for GUI devel as it is a much better mapping between how GUI apps
> work and how the language works.
>
> and yes, Jeff is right: avoid Motif. it's a dead-end library that is still
> around only because of the sheer number of legacy apps writtenusing Motif.
>
> > I know you can use Qt and
> > Motif. Is there anyone in particular that you guys would recommend and
why?
>
> Qt is probably one of the best. Jeff mentioned wxWindows which is pretty
good,
> though not as complete or as supported as Qt is. Qt has a LOT more
capability
> and the classes are generally more mature and featureful (compare the
string
> classes, XML support, and database infrastructure for example). Qt's
> documentation is much nicer, IMHO, and has a much, much nicer system for
> event handling, application creation, etc.. it's easier to create dynamic,
> type safe events using Qt... not to mention it comes with tools like
> Designer, Linguist, qmake, uic, etc for FREE ... Qt is simply a bigger,
> better, more modern toolkit. which says a lot for Qt as wxWindows is
pretty
> good.
>
> as for restrictions, the only restriction with Qt is that you can't write
> non-Free software with it unless you have a commercial Qt license. GPL,
LGPL,
> BSD, Artistic, etc. licenses are all fine to use with FreeQt. there is no
> FreeQt for Windows, but......
>
> .... for those who didn't catch the news: Qt will be dual licensed on
MacOS X
> shortly just as it is with Qt X11. KDE apps will run natively on that
> platform pretty much at the same time that happens (Trolltech already has
> most of the work done and just sitting in-house waiting for the official
> license change). huzzah!
>
> and that's another strength of Qt: not only is it cross platform, but it's
a
> gateway to systems like KDE.
>
> - --
> Aaron J. Seigo
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> KDE: The 'K' is for 'kick ass'
> http://www.kde.org http://promo.kde.org/3.1/feature_guide.php
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