[Qt-interest] Motif and QT

[ygor at comcast.net]

...and right at the top, it says, "This extension is typically used by developers when incrementally migrating Motif-based applications to Qt. To take full advantage of Qt, we recommend that you ship complete Qt ports of your applications rather than rely on this extension in production software"

----- Original Message -----
From: David Johnson <david at usermode.org>
To: ygor at comcast.net
Cc: phil prentice <philp.cheer at talktalk.net>, qt-interest at trolltech.com
Sent: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 17:41:08 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Motif and QT

> Best of luck to you.
> Going from Motif to Qt is not just a change of GUI library but also going
> from C to C++

Yes, you will need to know about C++ classes and object oriented
programming. But you really don't need to know the more difficult corners
of C++ (unless you decide to use QtConcurrent). OOP is the standard in all
GUI toolkits and frameworks, so it's good to know.

You don't have to make a clean break of Motif though. There is the Motif
Extension of Qt, that lets you mix Qt and Xt/Motif widgets and dialogs
together in the same program. This is by far the easiest way to go about
it. Currently it's only a commercial addon, I don't know if it will be
opensourced in the near future. See
<http://www.qtsoftware.com/products/appdev/add-on-products/catalog/4/Migration/qtmotifextension/>
for more info.

David Johnson