On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 12:41 am, Andreas Kotes wrote: > > - I think I read somewhere that there is a DirectFB port of QT Embedded, > > it would be nice to run this for the ui stuff :-) > > no, definitely not *g* better use lite or something else thats > more lightweight - I don't know what kind of machine or how much memory > you want to force the users to have ;)
Hahah. Qt/E can fit in 4 megs flash, 8megs ram. Oops, that Qt/E + Qtopia :) I know because its my job to know. Although I will admit the numbers above required some extra work. Basically the main point though is that Qt/E is size configurable. its very easy to pick and choose what features you want and what features you don't. And yes, I will be the first to admit that that is quite heavy compared to lite. It really comes down to what you want. Qt/E can provide a lot, and a lot of what it can provide is not just widgets (e.g. tranlsation and internationalization, various container classes, ease of use). Now for the bad news. Qt/E to the best of my knowledge is not ported to DirectFB yet. The only port I have heard about was the Qt (version 3 something) port. Its mentioned on the DirectFB site, but the page hasn't been updated in months, so may have stalled. The second downside is that Qt/E (and Qt) don't have a drawing model that will take full advantage of DirectFB. This in itself isn't bad, and can work quite well and fast under DirectFB. There is just a lot of really cool stuff that will work slower under that method. I haven't managed to get lite running yet, so I don't know what it actually does yet, but that is more lack of effort on my part. -- Ian. -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe directfb-dev" as subject.
