QT

[James Kramer]

What it boiled down to with me is money and freedom.  I wanted to do
an open source program and using QT limited my choices and freedom.

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 11/24/2008 02:33 PM, Gordon Marx wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> QT is based on C++, and GTK+ is based on C, so it depends in some cases
>>> whether you use C++ or C.  You also can use GPL libraries with
>>> proprietary
>>> code.
>>>
>>
>> There are bindings for GTK+ in C++ (gtkmm). There do not appear to be
>> C bindings for QT (not that surprising). Both seem to support a
>> variety of other languages, such as Perl and Python.
>>
>> My guess is that just like GNOME vs KDE vs Enlightenment, most of GTK+
>> vs QT vs EFL boils down to personal preference and learning style.
>>
>
> True. Much depends on wha language you want to implement in. Another depends
> on how the product will integrate on Windows Xp, Windows Vista, Linux and
> Mac. If it can be built such that the installer loads the appropriate
> support libraries automatically.
>
> But, in all cases, you will need to test on the target systems, but that
> goes without saying.
>
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