On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, DJ Ortley wrote: > So, what are people's opinions on: > -wxWidgets? > -FLTK? > -others?
wxWidgets is a wrapper for different native toolkits. It's kind of a lowest common denominator. Qt includes very good i18n support, including a graphical frontend for translators for every platform. It also includes a graphical ui designer. It includes a help system. Cmake build system supports Qt "natively" (it's used in KDE4 development after all). Qt is professional. Qt is native c++ and very well designed to be natively object oriented unlike some competitors (I don't want to hurt gtk fans, but...) There are good alternatives, but honestly, I can't see even one area where they could beat Qt in this case. You can get an overview of what Qt offers from http://doc.trolltech.com/4.2/index.html. Is there anything which some competitor does better? The text rendering widget is the most important piece for a Bible applications. What do toolkits offer for that? Remember to take me not too seriously, there are enough flamewars about toolkits. If something works, then it works - good. If we really want to choose a toolkit for "official" frontend, pros and cons must be weighed carefully point by point. It's not happening in near future unless someone volunteers to be the developer. Yours, Eeli Kaikkonen (Mr.), Oulu, Finland e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (with no x) _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
