[Qt-interest] Are there any disadvantages with OT

[Raja Rokkam]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Scott Aron Bloom
<Scott.Bloom at sabgroup.com>wrote:

Check my 1st line: "Some of disadvantages or *rather not really
disadvantages but some additional works *which might be time consuming are:"
I was just mentioning the possible cases to consider. I would go with Qt any
given day. After having worked with it for quite some time, I just fell in
love with it.

>  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.
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>> I am not sure if we can consider .NET 3.5 to be a native lib but a QT GUI
application will be of a more size when compare to

> 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
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>> I am using Qt plugins compiling statically so that shouldnt be a problem
either.

> 3) Name one C++ framework where you don’t deriver and write your own
> wrappers?
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 >> I agree with you on this :) .

> 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?
>
 Well I am not sure of others but was not quite comfortable using Qt Layout
Managers in my application. Probably need to look into it more.

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

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> My #1 -  over use of pImpl methodology sometimes prevents derivation from
> working….
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>> Thanks for sharing this.

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> *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
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> Some of disadvantages or rather not really disadvantages but some
> additional works which might be time consuming are:
>
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> 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.
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> 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.
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>  On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Yuvraj <
> yuvraj.ragupathi at indieontech.com> wrote:
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> shariff wrote:
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> > Dear All,
> >
> > Can any one tell me are there any disadvantages with QT.
> > I came across with this question during a discussion with one of my
> > friend.
> > He heard about some disadvantages of QT and asked me about it.
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> >  Thank you
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> > Regards,
> > Shariff
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> What he heard about disadvantages of QT ?
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> Thanks
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