On Nov 29, 2007, at 1:02 PM, Dan Lund wrote:
> That's what Xlib is, the X/Window library collection that displays all
> that good stuff, and QT provides the motif. It does the same as
> Motif/Lesstif, just with programmable configurability.
> It's not terribly high-level, it's just a C++ class set, basically.
> In the end, it's still C++. Though i have to admit, I'm a huge fan of
> QT programming structure.
Thanks. I didn't understand that.
> I haven't used QT on OS/X but from my reading about it, it interfaces
> with the Cocoa libraries.
> That should only save like... 50mb maybe. Perhaps the OS/X version
> has less stuff to it? (I mean, stripped down to just libraries and
> such with no tools, etc)
This seems to be the case.
> Hmm i didn't realize many people did graphics apps in ruby or python.
> I guess you have a point if someone was using those two languages for
> a graphics app and wanted it to be portable across *nix distributions.
> Same with Perl too, or C++ for that matter, or insert other language
> that links to QT
It's weird, but but I see links in the Ruby, Python and C++ frameworks
to QT but none from Perl. I guess Apple thinks that no one writes GUI
apps in Perl.
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