GUI controls for instrumentation

[Joe Desbonnet]

Qt is a widget library / GUI framework. In most projects I've been
involved with our preferred language and platform determined the
choice of widget library, not the other way around.

Qt would be a great option if your are committed to C++. However it
would be a mistake to be forced to use C++ just to use Qt.

BTW: from experience Java is very portable across Windows / Linux for
server side and client side applications. Of course you need to test
as you develop on both platforms -- that applies to perl, python etc
also.  Outside of Linux/Windows you do have to work a little harder to
maintain portability with Java.

Getting a bit OT and religious for fedora I think...

Joe.




On 3/28/06, Lamont R. Peterson <lamont at gurulabs.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 26 March 2006 10:27am, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Le dimanche 26 mars 2006 à 17:58 +0100, Dariusz J. Garbowski a écrit :
> > > On 03/26/2006 05:05 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > > > Le samedi 25 mars 2006 à 12:06 +0000, Dariusz J. Garbowski a écrit :
> > > >> .
> > > >> But I can see that in some environments Java on the desktop may be a
> > > >> support issue.
> > > >
> > > > Java is only write-once, run everywhere if you define everywhere as a
> > > > very specific static OS image :(
> > >
> > > Come to think of that... Any multi-platform, multi-os or even
> > > multi-distro (where w95/w98/w2k/wxp can be called "distro" for the
> > > purpose of this argument) will suffer from mentioned support issues
> >
> > Sure, but other software communities recognize the problem and try to
> > create tools to ease the pain. Sun java is unfortunately often in denial
> > and lala-lala land when you try to tell them there is a wide margin
> > between write once and run everywhere in the actual world
>
> I have yet to write Qt code on one platform that required any tweaking (except
> to add Windows Registry use when the "need" arose) to compile on all other
> platforms for which Qt is available and to which I have access.
>
> Qt is great write once, compile many places portability.
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