[Qt-interest] Are there any disadvantages with OT

[David Ching]

"BRM" <bm_witness at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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>> I disagree. I've seen several craptacular GUIs developed with other
>> toolkits, and I think it has a lot more to do with the skill of the
>> developer than the widget toolkit used.
>
> Very much agreed. +10
>
> Doesn't matter what toolkit you use (aside from Java, for the most part), 
> it's very much dependent on the skill of the developer as to the quality 
> of the GUI.
> Especially how much attention they pay to the minor details - keyboard 
> short-cuts, widget placements, etc.
>
> Fact is, Qt does make a lot of it far more simple to develop and manage 
> than most anything else.
> Qt's functionality is on-par (and probably very superior to) that of 
> prototyping a GUI with Visual Basic.
>
> In fact, if you use QtCreator, you can mimic the whole Visual Basic 
> experience - but have a far more powerful language (C++) at your hands.
> I haven't seen _any_ other toolkit do that, not to mention giving you 
> _more_ bang-for-the-buck (so to speak) since you can arrange a lot of the 
> GUI driving via Qt Designer without having to write much code due to 
> signals/slots.
>

<sigh>  I'm not getting my point across.  No arguments that Qt is simpler 
and faster, and more enjoyable to develop with.  That does not negate the 
fact that to develop the kinds of UI you can do in minutes with .NET would 
take days in Qt because of the lack of widgets.  For example, please tell me 
how I would quickly use Qt to develop the apps shown in 
http://www.telerik.com/products/winforms/sample-applications.aspx

I honestly hope you can, because I would far rather use Qt than .NET to 
develop these kinds of apps.  But I don't know how.

-- David