Hello, I am very happy to report to the wider public that I made a huge amount of improvements on Qt. I just implemented drawing images on a Canvas! =) I didn't test, but it should work for all supported image format (xpm, bmp, ico, png).
I also implemented TLabel with Font support. Also TMainMenu, TPopUpMenu, OpenDialog, SaveDialog, DirectoryDialog, ProgressBar, etc, etc, etc. full list here: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Roadmap#Widgetset_dependent_components Here is a screenshot: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Qt_Interface#Screenshots Disclaimer: First I just sent a patch which implements lot's of things, and it isn't applied yet, so it's better to wait the patch to test for yourselves. You can check if it was applied here: http://www.freepascal.org/mantis/view.php?id=7582 Second, despite all my progress this is still very much work in progress. Do not attempt to use the Qt interface for a serious work unless you are prepared to not only work on your software, but also on the Qt interface. Hapilly, I did a lot of documentation about the inner workings on LCL on the process, so this should be easier then ever. And Qt is very easy to use. Advantages of Qt: Qt doesn't need X11 to run on Mac OS X, so it's much better then Gtk 1 to deploy applications on this platform. Phil created a bundle that packages a compiled Qt with Lazarus software together for distribution. Qt is just very easy to use, very well documented and with good community support, so it's much easier to develop Qt-LCL then to develop Gtk-LCL for example (Just my oppinion. Also, that's one of the reasons I created Qt-LCL. I wanted the advantages of a modern widgetset, but Gtk is painful ). Qt is native on some PDAs. It runs alone without X11 or Gtk directly on the framebuffer, so it's one more platform for us. Note that the current widgetset doesn't work with Qt/Embedded 4, but with some work on it it could. Disadvantages of Qt: The Free Qt libs are licensed under GPL, so all software produced with FreeQt-LCL must also be GPL. There is a non-Free version, but it's price is ridiculously high (or is it that I am poor?) (Qt non-free is around 2000 dolars per platform per developer) -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
