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Re: Any RAD improvements?
by Bryan Feeney on Tuesday 26/Aug/2003, @08:30

You forgot a compiler! ;-) Course if you buy a compiler on Windows/Mac you'd get a full IDE with it. And of course on Unix there IS a stable verison of KDevelop. And there's QDesigner for application design, which when merged with the IDE of your choice gives you a powerful RAD system.

At the end of the day coming up with an IDE that hooks up with all the compilers and source control systems on all Qt's platforms is a complex project, and one that a lot of organisations won't need. E.g. they might have Visual C++ as a compiler, in which case they've got the IDE and SourceSafe for version control. Same with Unix: they've G++, KDevelop and CVS. An experienced professional developer should be able to set these up.

Don't see how new widgets and alpha-blending will help with "productivity". The widgets seem okay to an on-and-off again hobbiest like me, alpha-blending is handled by styles, don't see any great reason to have it in apps (there's always OpenGL). It's the utility classes that speed up implementaiton, a Qt equivalent to the KDE's KConfig and Java's Properties would be nice, implemented in a cross platform manner using, e.g. files on Unix and the registry on Windows. Some crypto classes would be nice too (nothing too exotic, SHA, MD5, DES, Blowfish if possible). These could possibly be worked into support for TLS networking. While I've never used it people do seem to want some sort of component technology as well.

I will concede that by and large this seems to be a behind-the-scenes release. The work on threading is great and must have taken time. Same with the optimisations. The fact is Qt is maturing, there aren't a lot of big huge leaps forward left for it to make!

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Re: Any RAD improvements?
by Vélizar VESSELINOV on Tuesday 26/Aug/2003, @16:51

> It's the utility classes that speed up implementaiton, a Qt equivalent to the KDE's KConfig and Java's Properties would be nice, implemented in a cross platform manner using, e.g. files on Unix and the registry on Windows.

You can use QSettings class, it works without any problems (Windows: registry or UNIX: ~/.qt/.${appname}rc).

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