K. Frank said: > Hi Larry! > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Is it possible to run a Qt app in a browser? I have googled for this, > > and found some hits, but none seen like they ever worked out. The most > > promising seems to be http://wiki.qt.io/Qt_for_Google_Native_Client > > but the readme link is broken, so that's discouraging. Anyone have any > > pointers on if this can be done and if so how? > > This doesn't answer your question, but as an aside, there is a web-application > framework called Wt: > > https://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt > > Wt shares some of the Qt philosophy -- application code (and the Wt library) > is written in C++, it is widget-based, and it uses signals and slots. I don't know > Wt's history, but I think Qt that significantly influenced the design of Wt. > > Of course, high-level similarities notwithstanding, the details are entirely > different. You couldn't, for example, compile a Qt application into a Wt > application. > > But if you like Qt and were starting a new web-application development > project, Wt could make sense, and if you really needed to port a Qt > application to the web, porting from Qt to Wt would still be a substantive > port, but the similar philosophy might make the port a little smoother. > > > Thanks! > > Good luck! > > K. Frank
I am currently creating a Wt based web application that reuses many of our non-GUI Qt based classes. I works really well based on the prototypes done so far. Theoretically, you could create a QPaintEngine that uses the WPainter interface to draw GUI objects, but I haven't investigated that. Tony _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
