Re: [Interest] Which "Widget" technology to use when starting a new desktop app

2017-01-06 Thread Uwe Rathmann
On Thu, 05 Jan 2017 16:58:00 -0500, Mike Jackson wrote: > After reviewing the responses and doing some more research online we > decided to stick with the traditional QWidgets IMO the only reasonable choice for a classic desktop application ... > ... for our desktop app but > get away from the

Re: [Interest] Which "Widget" technology to use when starting a new desktop app

2017-01-05 Thread Mike Jackson
André Pönitz wrote: On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 04:03:56PM +0100, Jason H wrote: After watching the webinar "The Curse of Choice: An overview of GUI technologies in Qt?"[1] I am even more confused as to what to use for our new desktop app. Here are a few of the background details. The app will be

Re: [Interest] Which "Widget" technology to use when starting a new desktop app

2017-01-05 Thread André Pönitz
On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 04:03:56PM +0100, Jason H wrote: > > > After watching the webinar "The Curse of Choice: An overview of GUI > > technologies in Qt?"[1] I am even more confused as to what to use for > > our new desktop app. Here are a few of the background details. The app > > will be

Re: [Interest] Which "Widget" technology to use when starting a new desktop app

2017-01-05 Thread Mike Jackson
Jason H wrote: Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2017 at 11:19 AM From: "Bob Hood"<bho...@comcast.net> To: interest@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Interest] Which "Widget" technology to use when starting a new desktop app On 1/5/2017 8:51 AM, william.croc...@analog.com wrot

Re: [Interest] Which "Widget" technology to use when starting a new desktop app

2017-01-05 Thread Jason H
> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2017 at 11:19 AM > From: "Bob Hood" <bho...@comcast.net> > To: interest@qt-project.org > Subject: Re: [Interest] Which "Widget" technology to use when starting a new > desktop app > > On 1/5/2017 8:51 AM, william.croc.

Re: [Interest] Which "Widget" technology to use when starting a new desktop app

2017-01-05 Thread Bob Hood
On 1/5/2017 8:51 AM, william.croc...@analog.com wrote: On 01/05/2017 10:29 AM, Bob Hood wrote: On 1/5/2017 8:03 AM, Jason H wrote: The mantra is to use QML. I just wrote a wonderful utility using Qt 5.6.2 and Widgets for the desktop, and there's no hint of QML in it. It functions

Re: [Interest] Which "Widget" technology to use when starting a new desktop app

2017-01-05 Thread Jean-Michaël Celerier
QWidgets and QML aren't incompatible, you can display a QML central widget with your image processing view with a QQuickView inside a QMainWindow, just like you would have used a QGraphicsView before. Best, Jean-Michaël --- Jean-Michaël Celerier http://www.jcelerier.name On Thu, Jan 5,

Re: [Interest] Which "Widget" technology to use when starting a new desktop app

2017-01-05 Thread william.croc...@analog.com
On 01/05/2017 10:29 AM, Bob Hood wrote: On 1/5/2017 8:03 AM, Jason H wrote: The mantra is to use QML. I just wrote a wonderful utility using Qt 5.6.2 and Widgets for the desktop, and there's no hint of QML in it. It functions beautifully, is easily maintainable, and even has full animations.

Re: [Interest] Which "Widget" technology to use when starting a new desktop app

2017-01-05 Thread Bob Hood
On 1/5/2017 8:03 AM, Jason H wrote: The mantra is to use QML. I just wrote a wonderful utility using Qt 5.6.2 and Widgets for the desktop, and there's no hint of QML in it. It functions beautifully, is easily maintainable, and even has full animations. I don't think the mantra is QML.

Re: [Interest] Which "Widget" technology to use when starting a new desktop app

2017-01-05 Thread Jason H
> After watching the webinar "The Curse of Choice: An overview of GUI > technologies in Qt?"[1] I am even more confused as to what to use for > our new desktop app. Here are a few of the background details. The app > will be cross platform to desktop systems, not embedded at all. The app >

[Interest] Which "Widget" technology to use when starting a new desktop app

2017-01-05 Thread Mike Jackson
After watching the webinar "The Curse of Choice: An overview of GUI technologies in Qt?"[1] I am even more confused as to what to use for our new desktop app. Here are a few of the background details. The app will be cross platform to desktop systems, not embedded at all. The app will be