Qt GUI feature suggestion thread

Squall Leonhart · Post by **Squall Leonhart** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 10:05 pm

Not happening.

shinra358 · Post by **shinra358** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 10:25 pm

Doh! Alrighty.

Ram-Z · Post by **Ram-Z** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 7:53 pm

Is the Qt frontend still being worked on? Or has it been discontinued? I can't find any Qt related code in the trunk or any of the branches (maybe I didn't look hard enough?)

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If the port is still active, where could I get a glance at the code? If it's not, would it be possible to know why it was discontinued?

Squall Leonhart · Post by **Squall Leonhart** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:22 pm

Qt was spacy's baby

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and spacy no longer has time for vba-m

tysonrss · Post by **tysonrss** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 3:53 am

That would be such a pointless feature to have, borders >_>

Post by **ZachBacon** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 4:13 pm

at any rate wxwidgets will be the new interface for all platforms, pretty nearly complete too, just working on a few things within the core and so forth among other things

Ram-Z · Post by **Ram-Z** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 6:16 pm

That is too bad, Qt is such a great multi-platform framework.

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I hope the non-gui version will still not depend on gtk.

Post by **ZachBacon** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:15 pm

I beg to differ WxWidgets is a great multiplatform toolkit that uses native api instead of drawn widgets that simulates so on windows it uses winapi, linux uses gtk and osx cocoa but using primarily one toolkit and this new interface code is pretty feature complete compared to the old qt interface one that we had going before.

Ram-Z · Post by **Ram-Z** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 4:14 pm

I'm a packager for Chakra Linux, which focuses on KDE only. So my choice for a framework will always be biased. I was not saying that WxWidgets was a bad choice, it is probably as good as Qt. The only downside is that, in a KDE based desktop, GTK apps still look off.

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I was only interested in a Qt Gui so I could compile against that and add vba-m to our repo, since we do not allow GTK apps there. I'll keep maintaining the Gtk version in our user repo then.

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Thanks for your information.

Post by **ZachBacon** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 9:21 pm

well hopefully not for long, I've been following the development of wxwidgets 2.9.x (aka 3.0) there is going to be a WxQT interface http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/WxQt so eventually it should look nice in a kde desktop