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Re: KDE & Companies: Ask Trolltech Anything
by Erik Engheim on Sunday 08/Jul/2001, @11:20

Qt is the best C++ GUI toolkit I have ever used. I am not sure it actually exist anything better. Apart from a number of lesser known I have tried MFC and Borland C++ Builder. Builder was okay but not nearly as good as Qt I think. MFC I really hated.

Being a very strong Qt advocate I have always suggested Qt to people wanting to do GUI programs and always suggested it in projects I have joined. However dispite Qt's excenlence it is often not choosen. In the last project we did MFC was choosen dispite most of my group said we hated MFC and loved Qt. Our employer dispite not knowing either toolkit very well choose MFC because they saw it as a industry standard and that not enough people knew Qt.

With this background here is my questions:
1.What would you say to companies who choose MFC over Qt because most GUI programmer know MFC? Further the company does not care about portability.

(I really like to know because I want to know what I should argue to persvuade them to don't be so stupid).

2.Are you activly trying to make universities and colleges teach Qt GUI programming?

3.When Qt comes to Mac will Linux and Windows users be able to use the Aqua theme?

4.Will there be a non comercial version of Qt for Mac?

5.Does Trolltech have any thoughts on Microsofts .NET and what it will do to Qt?

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Re: KDE & Companies: Ask Trolltech Anything
by Justin on Sunday 08/Jul/2001, @18:39

For number 3, I noticed in the build process of Qt3.0 Beta2 the command line option to g++ "-DQT_NO_AQUA" or something to that extent. I thought about maybe removing the flag, but when I checked the styles folder in the package there was no sign of the Aqua style source code. So it probably would have ended up a broken compile.

My guess is Apple would have a fit if Aqua worked on X11 and Windows too.

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Re: KDE & Companies: Ask Trolltech Anything
by anonymous on Monday 09/Jul/2001, @17:19

I wouldn't be surprised if the aqua style is deliberately only available on Qt/Mac for licensing reasons ;)

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