We have written a new IDE in Qt, that is intended to replace the current GTK IDE.
The main reason for the change is portability. GTK is used mainly on Linux. It is supposed to be cross-platform, but in practice, this is not well supported, and there seems to be little interest in improving it. Qt does a much better job and works well on all platforms. A side benefit is that it is easier to program in Qt - the IDE code is noticeably simpler than for GTK. If all goes well, we will simply mothball the GTK code, and switch to Qt for the desktop IDE. Also, it was originally hoped that once the J7 GTK IDE had settled down, our desktop users would all upgrade from J6. This hasn't happened, but with the Qt IDE, we'd like to try once more for a good upgrade path from J6. An early beta is available, see http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Guides/Qt%20IDE. This has been developed by Bill, Norman and myself. We would really appreciate help, both in testing and in completing the development. Also welcome would be a code review from anyone experienced in Qt. Please discuss this in the beta forum, or email the development group: qt AT jsoftware DOT com. Chris ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
