BLS wrote:
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"BLS" <windev...@hotmail.de> wrote in message
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Bill Baxter wrote:
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:42 AM, naryl <c...@ngs.ru> wrote:
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:40:19 +0300, Bill Baxter <wbax...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Qt 4.5 to be LGPL
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F14%2F1312210
Now we just need a D port...
--bb
There is a binding currently in development.
http://code.google.com/p/qtd/
Excellent. I didn't know anyone was working on it. Qt is simply the
best damn GUI toolkit there is. But I wouldn't touch it with a meter
long chopstick when it was GPL.
I guess the D port is going to have MOC too?
--bb
I am just curious: Why QT is such a damned cool toolkit ?
In other words, how is it better than wxWidgets ?
I've never used QT but QT is IMO more comparable to SWING in that it
mimics native controls/widgets...so semi-optimal.
...and what the heck is MOC ?
Bjoern
From what I gather from having recently been trying to read up on Qt:
- The newer verions of Qt actually use the real native widgets, unlike
older versions of Qt.
- MOC is a preprocessor packaged with Qt. Qt uses this concept of
"signals" and "sockets", which are apperently just like using a
delegate collection (ie, like "(void delegate())[]" or C#/WinForm's
event system, or something like that). Problem is, the original
version of Qt is made for C++, which doesn't have proper delegates (at
least not last I checked). So they hacked it together using a special
preprocessor for C++ code.
Phobos as well as Tango are offering support for signals and
slots...does this mean that MOC/D is not not needed for a QtD ? Sorry
for my ignorance, but I can't get it.
Bjoern
PS seems there is an upcoming D-preprocessor project on dsource.
two notes:
1. my personal view - assert(pre-processor is evil)
2. there's more to S&S than just an array of delegates - they are weak
refs so that destruction of an object disconnects automatically the
apropriate signals. but there is a weakref lib for D written by Bill
IIRC, that could be utilized in qtD. no pre-processor needed.
