[Qt-interest] Are there any disadvantages with OT

[David Ching]

"BRM" <bm_witness at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:857149.73114.qm at web65410.mail.ac4.yahoo.com...
> 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.
>

The minor details are important but do not dictate the overall "quality of 
the GUI", IMHO.


> 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.
>

Disagree, Visual Studio has much better designers than Qt Designer, 
especially the VB/C# ones.  All the events (signals) generated by the 
control are listed in a property inspector, and you double-click the event 
to generate a handler for it.  3rd party components can even write their own 
designer extensions so you can use their own UI to edit their properties.

-- David