Edward Diener wrote:
On 9/1/2010 3:38 PM, Ralf Globisch wrote:
Giorgio Zoppi 09/01/10 2:17 PM>>> I don't know if there's enough space for this. There are a plenty of GUIs Framework, like Qt or wxWindows, which are more advanced.
wxWindows is horrendous as a modern C++ GUI library. It uses C++ as it was used some 15 to 20 years ago and makes endless excuses about why its dialect of C++ must never be upgraded centered around support for hopelessly non-compliant C++ compilers.
Qt is a proprietary framework, also not using modern C++ but its own in-house ideas instead, which have long ago been superceded by modern C++ constructs such as in Boost libraries.
It's not clear whether those "modern C++ constructs" bring much practical advantage.
Furthermore one can not create commercial applications with it without either releasing the source code or paying Trolltech, or whoever owns them now, some large amount of money.
This is not true. You can use Qt for all kind of projects, including commercial closed-source, without paying a dime. It's under LGPL on all platforms, and "L" matters -- it means you are only prevented from making local modifications to Qt and distributing modified version. - Volodya