On 2009-06-17 22:08+0300 Dmitri Gribenko wrote: > > [...]Can you suggest what driver should I use? I think about using GTK and > extcairo. But in future I want to port the application to Windows. > Should a Qt application be easier to port than a GTK one?
Hi Dmitri: I don't think you need to be concerned about the windows platform for either GTK+ or Qt4. There is a downloadable stack of windows libraries for GTK+ available at http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html. And a downloadable Qt4 software development kit is available for windows (and Linux and Mac OS X) at http://www.qtsoftware.com/downloads. One should be legitimately concerned about the relative maturity of our qt device driver (released in May this year) compared to the older cairo device driver (released in March of 2007). The qt device driver has been developed quite rapidly and now has essentially all the features that you get with the cairo device driver. However, there are still probably a few hard-to-find qt bugs left (such as the recently discovered poor interactive behaviour for the 17th example). But the number of such hard-to-find bugs should be reduced over the next few months as we respond to the expected bug reports made by our users and developers who attempt to use the qt device driver for a variety of platforms and use cases. So in the medium and long term that leaves which toolkit (GTK+ or QT4) you are most comfortable working with as the most important consideration driving your choice of toolkit. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
