Re: QT vs GTK+ vs others
Re: QT vs GTK+ vs others
- Subject: Re: QT vs GTK+ vs others
- From: Bryan Oakley <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:13:39 -0600
On Friday, March 28, 2003, at 10:42 AM, J. Todd Slack wrote:
However, according to their license:
"The Qt Free Edition is provided under both the Q Public License
("QPL") and
the GPL. This specifies that you may freely use the Qt Free Edition
for:
- Running software developed by others (e.g. KDE)
- Development of open source/non-proprietary software"
So you can't use it to develop proprietary software, which you're
allowed to do
with GTK+ (LGPL). It all depends on what your goals are...
Also, it will only run on X1 and I wish to target OS X and Win32 also.
You might want to consider a scripting language and/or the Tk (no
relation to GTK) library. Tcl/tk works on windows, unix, mac with x11
and Aqua (though the Aqua support is slightly buggy), and a few other
platforms. You don't even have to use Tcl; several languages include
ways to access the tk functionality. As well, you can embed tk in your
own C/C++ application if that's what you wish.
Many folks think tk isn't as "pretty" as other toolkits, but it really
does make cross-platform development fairly painless. In my experience,
for real world "get the job done" applications, Tcl/tk is more than up
to the task. Tcl is one of those languages you either "get" or don't
"get". Those that don't "get" Tcl really seem to hate it. Those that do
swear by it.
--
Bryan Oakley
bryan at bitmover dot com
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