My firm has been using QtJambi for about a year now, to create a desktop application intended for use on touch screens.
We choose QtJambi because we wanted the power and flexibility of Qt (Designer Ui files, huge collection of utility classes, cross platform, etc) but the majority of our application's libraries are written in Java. The major pain point for us was difficulty in getting QtJambi working on the RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 family of Linux distros with an rpm installer package and compatibility with recent Qt versions. I managed to get everything compiled with a couple of weeks worth of work, and since then we've had no real problems. Having an easier time with packaging and installation in the future would certainly be nice. If anyone wants the src.rpm I created (its out of date by now, I'm sure) just tell me how to transfer it to ya. Michael Jones Software Engineer CyberMetrix 2860 N National Rd #A Columbus, IN 47201-4746 USA 812-375-5868 On Thu 02 Feb 2012 09:51:54 AM EST, Pierce Krouse wrote: > I have been using Qt Jambi as the gui front end for a desktop > application for going on three years now. It’s not perfect, but for > our purposes the only alternative to Qt Jambi was the Eclipse RCP > platform. My experience with RCP and its underlying libraries was not > good, it was over-engineered in my opinion, so the learning curve was > higher than it needed to be. Qt Jambi, despite its flaws, worked much > better for me, and continues to be a stable option. > > *From:*qt-jambi-interest-bounces+pkrouse=synopsys....@qt.nokia.com > [mailto:qt-jambi-interest-bounces+pkrouse=synopsys....@qt.nokia.com] > *On Behalf Of *Erik De Rijcke > *Sent:* Thursday, February 02, 2012 7:11 AM > *To:* Samu Voutilainen > *Cc:* qt-jambi-interest@qt.nokia.com > *Subject:* Re: [Qt-jambi-interest] Qt-Jambi Status for real world > application > > Hi, > > I am currently writing a DE with qtjambi as the ui back-end. So to > answer your question: it is possible because I just did it. :) > > However there are some drawbacks in qtjambi compared to classic qt. A > lot of low level X related functions are not available in qtjambi > while they are in qt and this can sometimes be a bit of pita. > > For example retrieving the xlib connection pointer in jambi is not > (yet?) possible. You can work around it by creating a seperate X > display connection but that makes your new 'window manager' connection > think all your qtjambi widgets are clients it needs to manage (which > results in decorations decorating decarations...). To solve this you > will have to create all jambi widgets with the override redirect flag set. > > There are a lot of other small issues that arise in jambi because of > the absence of these X related functions. For example it is not > possible to create a qpixmap in jambi from an existing X pixmap id, no > pictureId for widgets for use with the XRender protocol etc. > > Oh yes I almost forgot: > > http://trinity.netcat.be > > gl & hf :) > > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Samu Voutilainen <s...@smar.fi > <mailto:s...@smar.fi>> wrote: > > On Thursday 02 February 2012 12:05:40 Cvetoslav Ludmiloff wrote: > > Thanks for quick and encouraging response. > > I will try it soon and see what happened. > > Cvetoslav Ludmiloff > > http://archstable.blogspot.com/ > > Please tell your experiences to us, why it was good and why it was bad. > > All feedback helps us to make using the project easier :) > > -- > > Samu Voutilainen > > > _______________________________________________ > Qt-jambi-interest mailing list > Qt-jambi-interest@qt.nokia.com <mailto:Qt-jambi-interest@qt.nokia.com> > http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-jambi-interest > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qt-jambi-interest mailing list > Qt-jambi-interest@qt.nokia.com > http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-jambi-interest _______________________________________________ Qt-jambi-interest mailing list Qt-jambi-interest@qt.nokia.com http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-jambi-interest
