[Interest] Guide me through the Qt offerings for GUIs

Vlad Stelmahovsky vladstelmahovsky at gmail.com
Wed Apr 21 13:36:45 CEST 2021


Using Electron has nothing to do with licensing issues. The issue is common
programming knowledge level is going down when programmers paradise
promised for newcomers: learn HTML programming language (sic!) and you are
rich
btw, is Electron licensed for use in medical devices?

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 1:30 PM Roland Hughes <roland at logikalsolutions.com>
wrote:

> LOL,
>
> I never said it wasn't. I said phones and John Deere. My point was this:
>
> >That tiny subset on the Web site doesn't scratch the surface.
>
> Of course the total number of embedded systems using Qt of any flavor is
> going down as much of the market is moving to Electron and other libraries
> given the licensing issues.
>
> Automotive is a tiny subset of where Qt is historically used.
> On 4/21/2021 6:26 AM, Vlad Stelmahovsky wrote:
>
> With these numbers are you trying to convince me that QML is not used in
> embedded? or what?
>
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 1:21 PM Roland Hughes <roland at logikalsolutions.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 4/21/2021 12:14 AM, Vlad Stelmahovsky wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 3:13 PM Roland Hughes <
>> roland at logikalsolutions.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 4/20/2021 5:00 AM, Giuseppe D'Angelo wrote:
>>>
>>> On 18/04/2021 14:50, Roland Hughes wrote:
>>>
>>> It's completely true. That tiny subset on the Web site doesn't scratch
>>> the surface. It certainly doesn't encompass my customer base and I haven't
>>> heard anyone pipe up on here using QML for anything non-significant that
>>> wasn't phones or John Deere. Even the one medical device we have been told
>>> about on this list has said you can't do anything in QML, only painting.
>>>
>>
>> its not true. f.ex all Volvo cars from 2015 until this year using
>> QML-based apps in their infotainment system
>>
>>
>> https://www.media.volvocars.com/us/en-us/corporate/sales-volumes?year=2015&month=12
>>
>>
>> https://www.media.volvocars.com/us/en-us/corporate/sales-volumes?year=2016&month=12
>>
>>
>> https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-gb/media/pressreleases/172301/volvo-cars-reports-record-sales-of-503127-in-2015
>>
>>
>> https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-gb/media/pressreleases/204359/volvo-cars-reports-operating-profit-of-sek11bn-in-2016
>>
>>
>> 2015   70,047  U.S.   503,127 global
>> 2016   82,724  U.S.   534,332 global
>>
>> I guess we need to have some common definition of subset and surface?
>>
>> The patient monitors that use Qt sans QML sell millions of units.
>> Granted, they only cost thousands, not tens of thousands. The one I worked
>> on that was released some time in 2015 reportedly sold 7 million units in
>> its first few years.
>>
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>>
>>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Vlad
>
> --
> Roland Hughes, President
> Logikal Solutions
> (630)-205-1593
> https://theminimumyouneedtoknow.comhttps://infiniteexposure.nethttps://lesedi.ushttps://johnsmith-book.comhttps://logikalblog.comhttps://interestingauthors.com/blog
>
>

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Best regards,
Vlad
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