Any Interest in Qt?

[doug]

Q: Any thoughts or opinions about Qt as a GUI toolkit?

I've been sort of impressed with a few applications that use it. And I see it mentioned all the time in Linux magazines.

Sort of an open question.

Doug

[ruxpin]

A:
A really delayed reply, but yes! Qt is very useful. However, I have noticed an issue when compiling a Qt application using OpenEaagles: the variable slots[] in Basic::Object is a keyword in Qt's signal/slot setup. Changing it in OpenEaagles to slotNames[] where applicable works for me.

Additionally, Qt's thread-safe signals and slots will conflict with OpenEaagles's ref() and unref(). My approach was to use ref() and unref() inside a QThread's run() block.

Hope that helps.

[leesines]

Ruxpin,

I'm glad you brought this topic back into the light, because I have been working on integrating QT into an OE application for some time now. As of this point, I have been able to get QT working seamlessly with OE, and I have made an application showing this relationship. Not only that, but I have been able to utilize Qts widgets to integrate OE components into the QT designer framework. I haven't gotten approval to release them as of yet, but when I do, hopefully you will be able to leverage off the nice features of QT and use them inside an OE application.

Thanks,
Lee