On May 5, 2009, at 1:48 AM, Jey Han Lau wrote: > We are currently trying to build a GUI application on Maemo, and after > listening to suggestions from a few Maemo developers we started > prototyping it with Python and Qt. > > Python and Qt seems easy since the UI code designed from Qt designer > can > be converted into python automatically. But soon we came to realize > that > only the UI code (in xml) is converted, any functions, methods or code > written in C++ for the original Qt application has to be manually > translated into Python. Seems reasonable but now we aren't so sure if > this is the best approach anymore... > > The application we are building isn't too complicated (but will have > quite some number of screens/forms), and will contain SOAP web service > calls, and some file writing/reading. We've got the web service call > working using ZSI, so all that is left to decide is the UI framework > to > be used. Qt seems to be a better choice initially since it comes > with a > designer IDE that allows us to design the GUI more easily. > > Before we move on to spend more time using Python and Qt to develop > our > program, we'd like to hear some comments from you developers : )
If the strength of your development team is in C++, then prototype your application in C++. Qt is built on C++. The python bindings are very useful to prototype quickly if you are strong in python (Qt has other bindings as well, including perl bindings which are a SoC project.) But there is no need to prototype first in python - it gives you no special advantages aside from the fact that most prefer to code in python versus C++ and that some consider prototyping to be much faster in python. Jeremiah _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
