Re: [Interest] Future of Qt with Ios

2014-09-12 Thread Karl Loveridge
Well that is encouraging. Half the battle of this knowing its possible. ___ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest

Re: [Interest] Future of Qt with Ios

2014-09-12 Thread Till Oliver Knoll
Am 12.09.2014 um 14:26 schrieb Karl Loveridge : > ... > My request as an end user is for Qt, at the very least, to make it easy for > us to set up a Widget based on either OpenGL You have it: QGLWidget (deprecated), QOpenGLWidget (new replacement for QGLWidget since Qt 5.4), or QWindow (set its

Re: [Interest] Future of Qt with Ios

2014-09-12 Thread Till Oliver Knoll
Am 12.09.2014 um 09:38 schrieb Till Oliver Knoll : > > ... > Second, it is much more exclusive than you think: it's (still) exclusive to > the A8 chip, so no support in current iPhone and iPads. That's off course wrong: Metal will run on the already released A7 chip found in the current iPhon

[Interest] Future of Qt with Ios

2014-09-12 Thread Karl Loveridge
Our situation is we, are a commercial game company. We have written our own game engine in OpenGL that currently doesn't include Qt. It is written purely in C++. We use Xcode for the Ios and Eclipse for the Android. So here comes Apple with this new tech, Metal. We were invited to Apple to sit

[Interest] Future of Qt with IOS

2014-09-12 Thread Karl Loveridge
To whom it may Concern: I’m really rooting for Qt. I love it so far. I’ve invested about 7 months into a project using Qt. But I’m having some doubts that I wonder if anyone could help me with. I’m concerned that Qt and the iOS are a bit at odds with each other. For instance, Apple just announce

Re: [Interest] Future of Qt with Ios

2014-09-12 Thread Kate Alhola
What version of qt is needed fot ios8 ? Do i need build it or could i use ready made build ? Kate Lähetetty iPadista > Gustavsen Richard kirjoitti 12.9.2014 kello > 10.15: > > We always work to support the latest versions of an OS, also on iOS. So yes, > Qt will build and and run on iOS 8.

Re: [Interest] Future of Qt with Ios

2014-09-12 Thread Gunnar Sletta
On 12 Sep 2014, at 02:10, Karl Loveridge wrote: > I’m really rooting for Qt. I love it so far. I’ve invested about 7 months > into a project using Qt. But I’m having some doubts that I wonder if anyone > could help me with. > > I’m concerned that Qt and the iOS are a bit at odds with each oth

Re: [Interest] Future of Qt with Ios

2014-09-12 Thread Till Oliver Knoll
Am 12.09.2014 um 02:10 schrieb Karl Loveridge : > ... can’t find anything. Is Qt planning on supporting Metal (which is Apple’s > new OpenGL replacement—which is 10x faster than OpenGL)—which is exclusively > Apple. > First off all, Metal is "up to 10x faster", not "10x faster". A PR stateme

Re: [Interest] Future of Qt with Ios

2014-09-12 Thread Gustavsen Richard
We always work to support the latest versions of an OS, also on iOS. So yes, Qt will build and and run on iOS 8. Internally we have been working with the developer preview for some time already. We have no plans for Metal yet, though. -Richard Fra: interest-boun