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Subject:	Re: What do LDraw dev people use for multiplatform development
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad.dev
Date:	Thu, 27 May 2010 19:08:48 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Remi Gagne wrote: > wxWidgets isn't bad, but for serious, heavy-UI applications, Qt is far, far > better. Its QtCreator IDE & debugger isn't bad either, and is easy to get > started with. And QtDesigner, its drag-n-drop UI developer, is one of the few > such tools I've seen that generates useful code. Good stuff. > > May I ask, what kind of applications are you developing that require native > code, and for which Java is too slow? These days, device drivers, > graphically-intense video games, and computationally-expensive scientific apps > are about the only things I can think of that require native code... and with > good wrapper libraries, even most of those are questionable. > > Remi Thanks, I've been looking at Qt but as far I understand it's license doesn't permit commercially static linked closed applications, something I need for my business projects. I know you could link dynamically but that probably raises all kinds of dependency problems. The main reason I always worked using Delphi is the fact it produces such nice self sustained applications it will run on any recent out of the box windows. So while making the migration to multi platform I somehow want to preserve that feature. About native code, well I might just be a purist but I always find it nice to get those extra couple of milliseconds at places where it really counts (eg a rendering engine). Also I have developed some cad programs work wise and might need to do more in the future, so I thought why not use Native all the time to keep things simple. Thanks again for your input. Roland

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		Re: What do LDraw dev people use for multiplatform development
(...) Qt is licensed under the LGPL which allows commercial use, either statically or dynamically linked, without problems. The only caveat is that if you modify Qt itself, you must release your modifications to Qt as open source. (...) If native (...) (14 years ago, 27-May-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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		Re: What do LDraw dev people use for multiplatform development
(...) wxWidgets isn't bad, but for serious, heavy-UI applications, Qt is far, far better. Its QtCreator IDE & debugger isn't bad either, and is easy to get started with. And QtDesigner, its drag-n-drop UI developer, is one of the few such tools I've (...) (14 years ago, 27-May-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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