[Qt-interest] Anyone using Qt Designer in embedded projects?

[Bo Thorsen]

Den 06-09-2010 08:07, Kustaa Nyholm skrev:
> ...thats about it, is anyone using it?
>
> Any thoughts appreciated.
>
> My personal feeling after a few months of using it is that it is more bother
> and than it is worth.
>
> Embedded user interfaces tend not to fit so well to the standard widgets,
> require pixel perfect positioning, are very dynamic, and the effort to
> support custom widgets in the Designer so that the UI expert can
> drag widgets around is away from the other project tasks.
>
> Cut/copy/paste/search/replace work so much better at code (or any
> text, say xml) level that using an interactive GUI editor.
>
> Not to mention macros and defines and such.

If you are writing for a specific version of a phone and don't care 
about maintainability, then you are correct. If you intend to support 
phones with different screens, then you have a problem. Maintaining user 
interfaces in designer is just so much easier than hand written code.

You can't just say that designer is good or bad for embedded work. For 
some things it works well, for other things it doesn't. It's up to you 
to choose the right tool for the problem at hand.

In my experience, I have used designer less on embedded code than I do 
on desktop code, so you do have something of a point. But I have used 
designer with great success on some embedded projects.

Bo Thorsen,
Fionia Software.

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