[Qt-interest] Are there any disadvantages with OT

[Scott Aron Bloom]

1) Only if the native libs are already installed.. .NET 3.5 is 120mb
last time I checked.. much larger than all the Qt libs combined.  

2) Only if you are shipping 1 app.. Ship multiple apps in 1 installer,
and your distro wil most likely get bigger.. Plus statically linking
loses the ability to use plugins

3) Name one C++ framework where you don't deriver and write your own
wrappers?

4) The layout managers in Qt are as robust as I have seen...  Compare to
.Net 10X easier and more robust to use..  ToJavas.. no comparison...
Does native cocoa/carbon  even have built in?  WxWidgets? MFC native?

 

There are definite disadvantages to Qt.. but these are not them.

 

 

My #1 -  over use of pImpl methodology sometimes prevents derivation
from working....

 

Scott

 

 

 

 

From: qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com
[mailto:qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com] On Behalf Of Raja Rokkam
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 23:56
To: Yuvraj
Cc: qt-interest at trolltech.com
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Are there any disadvantages with OT

 

Some of disadvantages or rather not really disadvantages but some
additional works which might be time consuming are:

1.) If you have to ship your software on different platforms, and
especially if its a GUI application, the size will grow a lot when
compared to the same code written in native platform but that again
would make a compromise on portability to other p latforms.

2.) Using upx and static build of Qt, should solve your problem to an
extent and it gets a lil more complicated on MAC. 

3.) Some of Qt classes you might have to derive and write your own
wrappers for specialized purposes which will again have its own
pros/cons. 

4.) Layout managers might become a pain as it is not completely robust.

Apart from that other issues would be with respect to externalization of
all strings in application when it comes to checkboxes,etc.




On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Yuvraj
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What he heard about disadvantages of QT ?


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