On Aug 30, 2012, at 22:31 57, Wayne Merricks wrote: > You normally just get stupid problems like fonts wrapping because they are > different sizes on different systems and the like.
Sounds just like Qt. :) > I'd be all for converting to Java as I can write it while I sleep instead of > having to think about all this C stuff but I think I'm leaning towards the > fact that its a lot of work with not a great pay off. I don't know a lot > about QT but I know that QT5 is going web orientated and QT is quite cross > platform once you set it up so it seems like the Java cross platform > advantages will disappear. And that's pretty much my take as well. I'm not "anti-Java", just cognizant of the fact that RD already implemented in a manner that allows for cross-platform development (as well as the purely selfish reason that I know C++ and Qt very well but have done little in Java beyond "Hello World"). > Finally I need to quickly defend Eclipse (Netbeans is OK but I found the auto > generated GUI code it produces to be a complete mess and it put me off using > the whole thing), I haven't found any IDE that comes close to it once you get > used to it, with the tool tip API lookups, auto completion and an awesome > debugger its pretty much Visual Studio but free (albeit without a gui > builder, which suits me). Its a rude awakening going from that to gedit for > C++/QT stuff where the only way I know of debugging is to throw in lots of > console writes and keep compiling until the errors go away (I have the same > problems with PHP so its not just a C/QT thing). IDEs are an intensely personal thing -- every coder has his own favorite. This is one of the nice things about the way TrollTech has done Qt -- it's pretty much IDE agnostic. I wish Apple would get that message -- iOS is a PITR for me to develop for because of all the XCode dependencies. Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | "There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and | | engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far | | the more certain." | | -- Baron Rothschild, ca. 1800 | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
