Re: [Interest] Using Widgets for new projects

2017-05-17 Thread Marco Piccolino
Thank you Konrad, useful thoughts. Best, Marco Piccolino 2017-05-17 11:50 GMT+02:00 Konrad Rosenbaum : > Hi, > > On Wed, May 17, 2017 07:56, Marco Piccolino wrote: > > In what scenarios would it still make sense to use QtWidgets for new > > projects? > > First off: both technologies are fully su

Re: [Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 68, Issue 13

2017-05-17 Thread Roland Hughes
Andr?, Yes, they hid designer in qttools, I don't know why, but they did. The problem is this stuff isn't setup to build by itself. roland@roland-HP-Compaq-8100-Elite-SFF-PC:~/QtCreator-build/qttools/qttools-build$ make -j5 > build.log /home/roland/QtCreator-build/qttools/src/pixeltool/qpixe

Re: [Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 68, Issue 13

2017-05-17 Thread Roland Hughes
Andr, I tried that. I have Qt from the repo installed and I built a few of my own projects from the command line without issue. Tried to follow these instructions but they just didn't work. https://wiki.qt.io/Building_Qt_Creator_from_Git Technically these instructions never worked. mkdir qt

Re: [Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 68, Issue 13

2017-05-17 Thread Roland Hughes
Wow! Thanks! The KDE crowd used to be so adamant about keeping "their" process. Maybe they finally stepped into the light? Roland On 05/17/2017 03:06 PM, Jean-Michaël Celerier wrote: On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 9:30 PM, Roland Hughes mailto:rol...@logikalsolutions.com>> wrote: Unless t

Re: [Interest] Using Widgets for new projects

2017-05-17 Thread Samuel Gaist
> On 17 May 2017, at 18:45, Benjamin TERRIER wrote: > > 2017-05-17 18:14 GMT+02:00 Jérôme Godbout : >> I don't say all desktop application should be done into Qml, but just that >> it's doable into Qml no matter the application you have. > > No, it is not always doable. > > Let's say I want to

Re: [Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 68, Issue 13

2017-05-17 Thread Jean-Michaël Celerier
On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 9:30 PM, Roland Hughes wrote: > Unless the KDevelop crown did a complete and total about face with their > re-write and dropping of of most languages, Qt development with KDevelop > didn't use .pro files or the same make system. If that has changed I would > like a link to

Re: [Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 68, Issue 13

2017-05-17 Thread Roland Hughes
Shawn, On 05/17/2017 04:51 AM, interest-requ...@qt-project.org wrote: so Eclipse is next best option. No, KDevelop does things completely different from Qt What does that mean? Unless the KDevelop crown did a complete and total about face with their re-write and dropping of of most languag

Re: [Interest] Using Widgets for new projects

2017-05-17 Thread Benjamin TERRIER
2017-05-17 18:14 GMT+02:00 Jérôme Godbout : > I don't say all desktop application should be done into Qml, but just that > it's doable into Qml no matter the application you have. No, it is not always doable. Let's say I want to make a desktop app that looks native. If I want to do it with QtQuic

Re: [Interest] Using Widgets for new projects

2017-05-17 Thread Jérôme Godbout
We went down the Qml road for 3D CAD application and it's doable, you only need to make a good 3D render to texture view elements until the 3D can catch up. With Canvas and render to a texture I don't see any real limitation. Maybe the boilers plate is increase compare to QWidgets but still doable.

Re: [Interest] Using Widgets for new projects

2017-05-17 Thread william.croc...@analog.com
It's not tomorrow that you will design an airplane on an Android tablet, control the CERN particle accelerator from a Windows phone or monitor the country electricity distribution network grid from an Apple iPod. Well said! Hear! Hear! Bill (Oh, damn. Where was that closest Starbucks again.

Re: [Interest] Using Widgets for new projects

2017-05-17 Thread Ch'Gans
On 17 May 2017 at 21:12, Till Oliver Knoll wrote: > > > Am 17.05.2017 um 03:14 schrieb Tuukka Turunen : > > > > Hi, > > > > If you make a desktop application widgets are often a solid choice – > especially if you want the application to look like other apps in that OS > and not create your own sty

Re: [Interest] Using Widgets for new projects

2017-05-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/17/2017 12:12 PM, Till Oliver Knoll wrote: The good thing: you can easily "mix" those technologies. I thought that too, but it turned out it's not possible where it mattered the most: Android. I wanted to replace *some* widgets with QML on Android, but it's not possible. You have to p

Re: [Interest] Using Widgets for new projects

2017-05-17 Thread Konrad Rosenbaum
Hi, On Wed, May 17, 2017 07:56, Marco Piccolino wrote: > In what scenarios would it still make sense to use QtWidgets for new > projects? First off: both technologies are fully supported. Widgets are not obsolete. It depends on your target platform and target audience: App for mobile phones or

Re: [Interest] Using Widgets for new projects

2017-05-17 Thread Till Oliver Knoll
> Am 17.05.2017 um 03:14 schrieb Tuukka Turunen : > > > Hi, > > If you make a desktop application widgets are often a solid choice – > especially if you want the application to look like other apps in that OS and > not create your own style for the app. Qt Creator, for example, is an > ap

Re: [Interest] Using Widgets for new projects

2017-05-17 Thread Marco Piccolino
Thank you Tuukka. M 2017-05-17 8:14 GMT+02:00 Tuukka Turunen : > > > Hi, > > > > If you make a desktop application widgets are often a solid choice – > especially if you want the application to look like other apps in that OS > and not create your own style for the app. Qt Creator, for example,