[Interest] Using Widgets for new projects

[Konrad Rosenbaum]

Hi,

On Wed, May 17, 2017 07:56, Marco Piccolino wrote:
> In what scenarios would it still make sense to use QtWidgets for new
> projects?

First off: both technologies are fully supported. Widgets are not obsolete.

It depends on your target platform and target audience:

App for mobile phones or tablets: use QML.

Info terminals with touch interaction: probably QML, since you probably
need custom styles and animation.

On Desktop you actually get a choice:

Productivity(*) Applications: you are much better off with Widgets.

Fancy Multimedia Apps, Games with non- or semi-professionals as target
audience: you are probably better off with QML.

(*) With "productivity" I mean anything in which the storage and
calculations in the background are far more important than good looks. The
most obvious examples being book keeping, mathematical applications,
specialized business apps. E.g. controls for complex machines are border
cases: on the one hand it is productivity targeted at professionals and
the data and control is more important than the looks, on the other hand
an animation of the actuators can safe your users days of diagnosis.

As Till already hinted:

Use Widgets if you need a simple style that looks familiar to users of the
platform and you do not want a language break between functionality and
GUI. Your app will probably look professional and boring, this is
perfectly normal and nothing to be worried about.

Use QML if you need fancy styles and animations. Your app will look fancy,
stylish, and may distract users. This is okay if those distractions are
not a danger to the user or his/her business. It may even be an important
property if your user wants to be distracted.

If necessary: mix them.



   Konrad