On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Vesa Solonen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Oct 2010, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > > We are essentially rewriting eeschema very soon. >> > > Any plans going metric on the way? I know it doesn't actuallu matter much, > but "now or never (tm)". Brainstorming ahead, is the wxWidgets the right > tool? I remember some previous brainstorming about Qt, even python was > mentioned for the UI. My (very limited) experience has proven PyQt4 _very_ > usable and also faster than any other common Python GUI toolkit. GUI layout > tools are in my opinion way better and there is less breakage between > platforms. On wx(GTK) the layout with labels and textboxes is never correct > (just look at KiCad on wxGTK vs Windows), but on Qt it's completely non > issue. Platform nativenes issue was solved some time ago, so Qt ought to be > as native as wxWidgets. I know the great deal of investment for wxWidgets, > but sometimes one has to leave old behind. Nokia pushing Qt seems to be a > good thing as license was relaxed LGPL/GPL/commercial and development is > ongoing. Qucs and FreeCAD would combine with KiCad more seamlessly... > > Vesa, we could switch to wxUniversal, instead having the native widgets, but this has a performance price.. I wish to change the point of view, we use wxWidgets in the best way ? I want to see PyQt4 drawing the amount of lines in video.brd one by one. I have nothing against Qt, neither wx has nothing against Qt in fact there is a QT port (wxQT).. -- Marco
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