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

[Eskil Abrahamsen Blomfeldt]

Den 14.04.2010 15:56, skrev ext Nikos Chantziaras:
> Here is a screenshot (attached) of the same text rendered with a native
> Cocoa application (top) and my Qt application (bottom), both using the
> Helvetica font at 16pt.  Notice the wrong spaces between character in
> the Qt app, for example in the words "lost", "permeated", and many
> others.  In the native app, the characters are evenly spaced, while in
> Qt they are not.
>

Hi,

First of all, are you using Carbon for your Qt build? And are you using 
Qt version 4.6.x or lower? If so, this is probably the problem you are 
seeing:

      http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-5529

The problem is that Qt used device metrics for fonts on Carbon, to work 
around a bug in QtWebKit. Both bugs have been fixed for Qt 4.7.0. To 
work around the problem in Qt 4.6.x and lower, you can build with Cocoa 
as the graphics backend instead. This should look identical to your 
Cocoa application.

Hope this helps!

best regards,
Eskil