> After watching the webinar "The Curse of Choice: An overview of GUI > technologies in Qt?"[1] I am even more confused as to what to use for > our new desktop app. Here are a few of the background details. The app > will be cross platform to desktop systems, not embedded at all. The app > will be displaying some "image" data from hdf5 files and performing some > "real" time basic image manipulations (gamma corrections, coloring of > data) on that data. The app will eventually call out to some existing > libraries to perform some long running analysis/simulations. We are > currently using Qt 5.6.2 due to its long term maintenance guarantees. > > In the past I have used QGraphics* classes to show images and perform > basic zoom, save, compositing functions but the webinar makes it pretty > clear NOT to use those classes any more. The webinar seems to push QML > and the Qt Quick classes as the way forward for desktop apps. One of the > issues that we might have with QML is the need to apply styling to those > widgets, none of us are UX/Styling experts by any stretch of the > imagination. I took a look at QOpenGLWidget to display/manipulate the > images so that we get an accelerated canvas to use. That looked > promising in combination with traditional QWidgets. > > I would like to hear other peoples experiences & suggestions as to what > they are doing. I don't want to write the app and then have to figure > out how to port it to another Qt technology in a year or so after our > funding has run out.
The mantra is to use QML. However I would recommend 5.7, since that has the new QtQuickControls 2, which addresses many issues with the original Qt Quick Controls, and has Layouts that you'll recognize. _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
