[Qt-interest] Is Qt the best choice for cross-platform desktop GUI applications? Mac OS X (Cocoa, Aqua)? KDE, GNOME, Windows 7

[Denis Akhmetzyanov]

Hi,
The white paper ftp://ftp.qt.nokia.com/qt/pdf/qt-vs-java-whitepaper.pdf having
some  information about Qt - Java comparison which was interesting for me.


2010/4/13 Elfen <pem.accounts.spam at gmail.com>

> My top 3 ideas are:
> 1) Qt, C++, Qt Creator (or Visual Studio / gcc / etc)
> 2) Swing, Java, Eclipse (or NetBeans, or IntelliJ)
> 3) SWT, Java, Eclipse (or NetBeans, or IntelliJ) (JFace rather than SWT?)
>
> Some ideas that get honorable mention:
> A) multiple native GUI toolkits (Windows, WPF, Expression Blend) (Mac OS X,
> Cocoa, Interface Builder) (GNOME, GTK+) (KDE, Qt)
> B) REAL Studio (formerly REALBasic)
> C) GTK#, C# and .NET, Mono
>
> An absolute minimum is to have very correct native visual style for the
> widgets (Mac OS X - Cocoa Aqua ?) (Windows - not sure if it's Windows Forms
> or WPF ?) (GNOME - GTK+ ?) (KDE - Qt ?).  Beyond that, it should do things
> like dialogs where the position of the (OK, Cancel) buttons is correct (for
> Windows 7, Mac OS X, GNOME, KDE), which I know Qt at least tries to do.
> Probably a native app should use different defaults shortcuts for each OS.
>
> I saw that Apple supports Swing, and that SWT has a native widget focus.
> However, I don't know how well they compare to Qt (especially on Mac OS X)
> for these things.
>
> I may have ruled out REAL Studio too soon, but I'm not enthused about that
> path unless it's really a lot better than the other choices (such as Qt,
> Swing, SWT)
>
> My first cross-platform GUI desktop application is just a simple
> specialized object based image drawing utility (you can open a png image and
> draw objects on it, like rectangles or polygons, and resize / move / delete
> / copy etc these objects).
>
> Specific examples / comparisons are especially helpful.  Please only reply
> if you have relevant experience and/or knowledge.
>
> thank you for info / leads
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Qt-interest mailing list
> Qt-interest at trolltech.com
> http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-interest
>
>


-- 
Best regards,
Denis Akhmetzyanov
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/qt-interest-old/attachments/20100413/37ab54f9/attachment.html