On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Andre Poenitz < andre.poen...@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 03:18:01PM -0700, Xu Wang wrote: > > Hi, I would like to learn Qt. I learn much better from physical books > than > > online resources, although I've heard the Qt manual is very good. > > > > Does anyone have suggestions for me? > > Your question is a bit off-topic here. Try qt-inter...@qt.nokia.com > or something similar. > I should have been more precise. I'm interested in learning qt4 for pretty much the sole purpose of programming for LyX. As I do not know anything about qt4, I do not know if there are different approaches to learning it, one of which is more useful for LyX. > > Google's first hit for "qt books" is http://developer.qt.nokia.com/books > which happens to be the "official" site. The first one (Blanchette/ > Summerfield) is a very good start. > Even though it's a few years old? > > > How much does Qt change from year to year? I am trying to figure out how > new > > the book that I look for should be. > > It should be Qt _4_. There's about one minor release per year, but > currently Qt 5 is being discussed. This will still take a while though, > and people try fairly hard to keep incompatibilities small, certainly > less than the Qt 3 -> Qt 4 jump six years ago. > > > Is there any chance that LyX will stop using Qt in the recent future? > > Unlikely from my point of view, given that there are no serious > alternatives for the kind of cross-platformness LyX exhibits. > > Andre' > Thank you for your response Andre', Xu
