[Interest] My experience porting to Qt5 (on OS X)

Konstantin Tokarev annulen at yandex.ru
Mon Sep 3 13:48:12 CEST 2012



03.09.2012, 15:41, "morten.sorvig at nokia.com" <morten.sorvig at nokia.com>:
> On Sep 3, 2012, at 1:09 PM, ext Till Oliver Knoll <till.oliver.knoll at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  That would be great! I am not sure what the implication of "playing
>>  according to the NSToolBar rules" would be, but as long as those would
>>  be "the same restrictions a Mac application has to follow anyway" then
>>  that would be no problem.
>
> To expand a bit on this point: the key issue is that we can't offer exactly the same API as QToolBar has, for example no setOrientation or setMovable (not a big loss if you ask me). More serious might be that addWidget() becomes harder to support.

Now Qt applications will need to add separate toolbar code for Mac OS X, while
in Qt 4 it was possible to handle Mac with QToolBar. Not so cross-platform'ish...

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Regards,
Konstantin



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