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Qt Designer and Scalable Interfaces
by Mario on Tuesday 02/Dec/2003, @20:31

"With glade you layout interfaces, instead of painting them. You place widgets by creating container widgets like tables which hold the "real" widgets. The advantage of this method is scalable interfaces. What do interfaces consist of? Text, icons and widgets. If you use svg icons you have completely scalable interfaces with Gnome *now*. E.g. you rarely have to worry if text in less concise languages than English will fit on your widgets. Gtk will take care of it and dynamically resize the widgets at runtime. Users with bad eye-sight or running higher resolutions than normal can choose large systems fonts. Pixel-oriented interface design is primitive and a thing of the past."

This sounds very beneficial to me, is it really true that in QtDesigner a widget is not scalable automatically? It sounds like it is very outdated if this is true, in fact what are its benefits if this is true?

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Re: Qt Designer and Scalable Interfaces
by Rayiner H. on Tuesday 02/Dec/2003, @22:18

I need to run larger-than-usual fonts (high-res LCD) and so scalability is very important to me. KDE/Qt's is very good (but so its GTK+'s for that matter :) Certainly, its better than Windows XP, and (as I hear) OS X's.

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Re: Qt Designer and Scalable Interfaces
by Mario on Wednesday 03/Dec/2003, @00:52

It seems that this is nothing unique and Qt can do all of this too.

Here are some more responses to the same question from another forum:

"Also, Qt comes with default widget spacing, avoiding
having to specify it in "a million places" when coding
a UI.

When it comes to fitting non-Enlish text and i18n.
Have a quick look at Qt Linquist. You do _not_ need to
be a programmer to be a Qt translator."

and

"It seems to me what you describe looks pretty like the use of QLayout and derivatives...
Whatever it looks like, Gtk *is* pixel-based. Have a look at classes : QVBox, QGrid, QLayout,
QHBoxLayout, and so on... and of course you can use them in designer."

and more responses here: http://dot.kde.org/1070400758/

Sorry, I double posted, I wanted to make sure someone answered.

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Re: Qt Designer and Scalable Interfaces
by Navindra Umanee on Wednesday 03/Dec/2003, @02:37

You posted your troll three times in three different threads. Stop spamming this forum with your trolls, please. I am getting complaints about you in my Inbox.

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I'm not trolling, it's a adamn question!!!
by Mario on Thursday 04/Dec/2003, @23:01

I simply put up a quote from a comment I found at OSNEWS and asked if it was true, did not say it was or not.

I really didn't know.

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Re: I'm not trolling, it's a adamn question!!!
by Datschge on Friday 05/Dec/2003, @07:58

Please stop posting the same post several times then.

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Re: Qt Designer and Scalable Interfaces
by Henrique Pinto on Wednesday 03/Dec/2003, @15:24

> This sounds very beneficial to me, is it really true that in
> QtDesigner a widget is not scalable automatically?

Layout management is available in Qt Designer for ages.

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Re: Qt Designer and Scalable Interfaces
by David on Thursday 04/Dec/2003, @06:31

This person obviously hasn't used Qt Designer. Scaleable layouts and widgets have been an integral part of Qt Designer for years. I have long slaved over scaleable UI issues in Visual Basic - it is an area where Microsoft has lagged behind. Strangely, Visual Studio now incorporates some UI development and layouts that are somewhat Qt-like.

Is it me or are we seeing more trolls from people regarding Qt from seemingly GTK or Gnome oriented people? I know we see people trolling regarding GTK from a Qt perspective, but I'm starting to see some sort of reasonably targetted campaign to undermine Qt from many quarters. It could be targetted or it could be a lot of coincidental stuff because 'the other side' feels desperate, I don't know.

Although I've used Glade for some GTK development and it is certainly good at what it does, it is no where near being as good as a combination of Qt Designer and KDevelop for developing on a more full-time basis. KDevelop may even end up be better at creating Gnome/GTK apps than anything Gnome based! Perhaps there may be some issues with cross-language support that can be addressed, but in terms of overall development structure KDE is streets ahead of anything.

I've seen some stupid trolls over the past few weeks and held my tongue because I didn't want any stupid flame-wars to occur. This is just my penny's worth and people can agree and disagree privately as they please.

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