[Interest] Customized Qt Platform Abstraction plugin

[Philippe]

> https://github.com/CrimsonAS/gtkplatform

Interesting. Proof of concept!

Philippe

On Sat, 25 Nov 2017 21:30:44 +0100
Alejandro Exojo via Interest <interest at qt-project.org> wrote:

> On Friday 17 November 2017 18:02:21 Philippe wrote:
> > * there is a big desktop application A that does not use Qt, and that uses
> > its own xplatform framework. * there is smaller application B, that is
> > based on Qt widgets
> > * the goal is to embed B inside A. Both applications are from the same
> > company, with possibily to make changes in both (but A must not be
> > rewritten for Qt, and B must remain based on Qt)
> > 
> > I am just asking: how crazy or wise, possible or not, is the idea to
> > create a QPA plugin, representing the "platform A", to host B ?
> 
> The feasibility of creating a plugin, seems doable. Depends on how good is 
> that cross platform toolkit, and what capabilities it has. But seems similar 
> to what has been done already:
> 
> https://github.com/CrimsonAS/gtkplatform
> 
> The goal of embedding, though, again depends on what you mean, and what you 
> want there.
> 
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