QT-Free for Windows

jtshaw · 02-22-2005, 08:28 AM

This is really just a news note. It seams as though TrollTech is Releasing QT 4.0.0 for Windows under the same "dual licensing" structure as it currently does the X11 and Mac versions. The GPL'd version of QT for Windows is close on the horizon. I'm going to give a round of applause for TrollTech for there ongoing support of the OSS community.

jtshaw · 02-22-2005, 08:32 AM

I suppose I missed the obvious.. I already use QT and I will enjoy being able to port my applications to Windows easily... especially since it is the category I find myself in

oldstinkyfish · 02-22-2005, 10:50 PM

From my understanding the only reason people are using GTk is because of its liscence, you can port it to M$ and you could make prorietary programs with it. Also, from what Ive read QT is much stronger than GTK? SO if Im not interested in selling software, The logical choice would be to learn to program with QT? Right? That is why I was going to learn how to program in GTK, was for its cross platform, not for profiteering.

Let me know if wrong

--Fish

Mara · 02-23-2005, 05:44 AM

oldstinkyfish, you're right. GTK is LGPL, Qt is GPL. It means GTK programs can be commercial. Qt ones - only if you buy a license.

I'm using both and in Qt you program faster and it has more functions (but not many more). GTK has certain features Qt lacks, however.

oldstinkyfish · 02-23-2005, 02:13 PM

Is it just me MARA, or does the KDE folk, seem to be more organized? Well for a beginner you need as much handholding as you can get, where GTK seems to be fragmented. What do you think of documentation?

Mara · 02-24-2005, 03:27 PM

GTK has quite good docs, the references. it's true that GTK has one, GDK another and glib the third one but you don't use all three at the same time usually.

With Qt docs I have usually 'how is this widget called?'-type problems but it's also very good. Like the examples.

jtshaw · 02-24-2005, 03:44 PM

I have to admit I'm not nearly as knowledgeable about GTK as QT. Does GTK provide all os-inspecific networking/file io commands? With QT you can literaly use the same code from Windows, to MacOS (native, not MacOS-X11), to Linux. Is that possible with GTK?

Mara · 02-24-2005, 04:21 PM

There's such possibility, but not in GTK itself - in glib. The reference says it works for Unix systems, but Windows version is not fully implemented at this time. Haven't tries it, so can't tell you the quality of it.

jtshaw · 02-24-2005, 06:48 PM

The first thing that really appealed to me about QT was that I could write code that worked natively in Aqua and X11 as well as have file i/o and network support without having to write two different versions of the code gui's or backends. The windows port just makes it even more appealing as a lot of people I know are still stuck in Windows and like to use some of my software.