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Qt 5.6.0 released

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Re: Qt 5.6.0 released

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Post by tosseraccount »

FigBug wrote: post #19
Cyph0n wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

JUCE seems interesting. What kind of difference in executable size are we talking about, approximately?

Pretty big. If you want to use LGPL Qt you need to dynamically link, so deploying will get you around 20 MB of libraries. You can do a command line JUCE app in a few hundred KB, or a GUI app in not much more.

Is the support for static linking good in JUCE, such that you can release non trivial programs in a single binary with reliance only on system libraries that are pretty much guaranteed to be there.

Re: Qt 5.6.0 released

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Post by distances »

tomjen3 wrote: post #34
justsaysmthng wrote: post #5

I've used Qt many years ago (2007) and I liked the experience, but I had to move away from it because our company decided to go native on all fronts.. For internal tools/prototypes I was using JUCE for my UI needs, which is much smaller in scale that Qt, but it produced very slim executables, was fast and good enough for my needs (plus I loved the API). I still think this a great framework for small UIs and tools, es…

Can I use the new fancy compiler stuff like Lambdas with QT? Does it still require a meta compiler?

Lambdas can be used e.g. with the new signal-slot syntax [1]. And yes, Qt uses the meta compiler, and it's hopefully going to stay that way as moc has a clear positive impact both on features and speed [2].

[1] https://wiki.qt.io/New_Signal_Slot_Syntax

[2] https://woboq.com/blog/moc-myths.html

Re: Qt 5.6.0 released

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Post by ThePhysicist »

pen2l wrote: post #23
ThePhysicist wrote: post #11

Qt is easily the best cross-platform UI kit that I have used, especially in combination with Python, which turns it into THE rapid prototyping tool. For my research I used PyQt/PySide to build lots of UI components for controlling my lab equipment, visualizing my data and running code in an interactive way. While doing this kind of thing using a native toolkit (MFC, GTK) would have been possible, it would probably ha…

> For my research I used PyQt/PySide to build lots of UI components for controlling my lab equipment, visualizing my data and running code in an interactive way. While doing this kind of thing using a native toolkit (MFC, GTK) would have been possible, it would probably have been much difficult and time-consuming. Neat. What kind of equipment were you controlling with? Is any of your code available? (I'm doing the sa…

All kinds of lab equipment, mostly interfaced via Visa and/or Gpib. My code is on Github:

https://github.com/adewes/pyview

https://github.com/adewes/python-qubit-setup

Re: Qt 5.6.0 released

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Post by dekhn »

Qt is one of the nicest frameworks I've worked with. I write code that I expect to run (and look roughly the same) on all 3 major plats (win, linux, osx) and Qt does this a lot better than the alternatives.

But what I really appreciate about Qt is the entire system was designed from the ground up by grownups who understand how to deploy software and have it last for over a decade. most of the frameworks today feel like they were developed by kids with little experience to solve limited problems now ,and then fall over as they evolve into something more complex.

Re: Qt 5.6.0 released

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Post by Ramiuz »

Will it be worth it/extremely hard to learn C++ just to use Qt? (I always read here and reddit about how hard/inefficient/easy to fail is everything is in C++)

(Eng. background and software dev full time)

Re: Qt 5.6.0 released

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Post by hugh4life »

My problem with Qt is that it seems like only Python has language bindings that are good long term bet for a project. I'd like to see bindings for Go, Rust, Node.js, and C#/.NET Core with dependable long term commitment to quality. I think there's more a business case to do these than there ever were for Qt Jambi(Swing and SWT existed) or PySide(basically, duplicating PyQt because it's GPL not LGPL).

Re: Qt 5.6.0 released

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Post by distances »

officialchicken wrote: post #15

Only one question: what changed in the License? Each version of Qt since 4.0 has been getting progressively away from open source.

This is a strange accusation, and I'd like to hear what gives you that impression. As far as I know, Qt has been getting more open, with the Free Qt foundation including new platforms and all.
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