Qt GUI feature suggestion thread

mudlord · Post by **mudlord** » Thu May 22, 2008 4:04 am

Ahh so it's meant to be a universal build?

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If it is done right, it will allow VBA-M to run on any platform the Qt GUI toolkit supports. Which is Linux/Mac/Windows.

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What does the QT actually stand for

Qt is named after Quasar Technologies, the original name of the company that develops the Qt GUI toolkit.

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are there any other differences to the current builds?

Well, it allows for a standard GUI across any platform, so, not really. Unless we start using stuff that Trolltech has added to Qt, like their concurrency framework for multithreading.

SCHUMI4EVER · Post by **SCHUMI4EVER** » Thu May 22, 2008 4:21 am

Ahh ok thanks for that explanation mudlord.

spacy51 · Post by **spacy51** » Thu May 22, 2008 11:17 am

Still, the Qt build is by far not even in alpha state. Development just started some months ago.

SCHUMI4EVER · Post by **SCHUMI4EVER** » Thu May 22, 2008 11:29 am

Well I am more than happy with the current implmentation as I am on Windows so I am not in the least bit bothered by that.

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It is an interesting concept though I must admit.

Nach · Post by **Nach** » Thu May 22, 2008 12:40 pm

If it is done right, it will allow VBA-M to run on any platform the Qt GUI toolkit supports. Which is Linux/Mac/Windows.

It's much more than that. Qt works fine on anything that uses X, such as BSD, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, and more.

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It also works on Linux Embedded, as well as Windows CE.

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http://trolltech.com/products/qt/features/platforms/desktop

http://trolltech.com/products/qt/features/platforms/embedded

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You've also already seen Qt used in a bunch of popular applications, such as Google Earth, or Adobe Photoshop something or other.

Anatasia · Post by **Anatasia** » Fri May 23, 2008 1:44 pm

Wow!Even Windows CE.Very interesting!!!!Does that mean Windows Mobile 6 and 7 will be support ?

xKiv · Post by **xKiv** » Fri May 23, 2008 5:13 pm

Wow!Even Windows CE.Very interesting!!!!Does that mean Windows Mobile 6 and 7 will be support ?

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Hypothetically.

But I wouldn't hold my breath - mobile devices probably don't have enough horsepower to emulate GBA at usable speeds ...

SCHUMI4EVER · Post by **SCHUMI4EVER** » Fri May 23, 2008 5:19 pm

http://www.vampent.com/vbagdownload.htm

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Actually they can play quite a few of them just fine. (Well the Nokia and Sony Erricson phones the emu is made for)

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That is fully commerical software though by the way....the demo/free download only gives you five minutes.

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My Nokia 6110 Navigator hardly has more power than a P1. It's a 233Mhz processor with 48MB RAM.

xKiv · Post by **xKiv** » Fri May 23, 2008 5:30 pm

Oh, OK. I was judging by the performance of VBA-M on my 1.7GHz P4 ... (with some filters and stretching and moderate quality sound and possibly somewhat more demanding games ...).

SCHUMI4EVER · Post by **SCHUMI4EVER** » Fri May 23, 2008 5:41 pm

I suppose it being a Java emulator aswell as the complete lack of filters as the screens are smaller than GBA screens aswell as most phones having fairly limited sound quality help somewhat.

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I never used filters on my Celeron 1.7Ghz so I would not know how they affect performance...but I can tell you that without filters and stretching (or at least not more than 2x or 3x) even a P3 (never had a P2 to try...a P1 lags a fair bit though and it's somewhat frustrating playing on it) can handle VBA just fine. You have to have a somewhat decent Video renderer though (for that time...a TNT2 does the job just fine). I was so surprised when I got my Celeron 1.7Ghz with 256MB RAM which was double the power I had before...and VBA lagged....turns out the SiS650 onboard graphics card was so bad it could not even handle games which did not even require a propper video accelerator aswell...as soon as I stuck a GeForce 5200FX in there though everything was fine.