Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Craig Graham Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics Subject: Re: Animation (again) Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 07:02:06 +0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 40 Message-ID: <36BBE8ED.59B478E4@hinge.mistral.co.uk> References: <36B2FCAE.2F14@bristol.ac.uk> <36B4E106.48BF4111@hinge.mistral.co.uk> <36B582DC.11E8@bristol.ac.uk> <36B5B738.622F1599@hinge.mistral.co.uk> <794p6o$q127@scea> <36B62A86.DB4EC3E@hinge.mistral.co.uk> <795o9b$q129@scea> <36B98F26.3B8243D5@bristol.ac.uk> <36B9BFBD.76653EFA@hinge.mistral.co.uk> <79g0en$mc9@wyrddreams.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1-s39-71-telehouse.mistral.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en JTait@wyrddreams.demon.co.uk wrote: > : two (OpenGL on Linux, KDE/Qt interface) as a learning experience on that > : platform. I've just started collecting the tool's I need to do it (GUI > : designers, debuggers, > : etc). QtEZ is what I'm looking at for now - anyone know of any other tasty > : GUI > : layout tools on Linux (with a strong nod to KDE & the Qt librarys...). > > I'm sure people will disagree with me, but personally I'd recommend against > using the Qt libs. I think the issue with whether or not they are Open > Source has been rectified with the latest release, but there are better > quality toolkits out there. *8O) *Shrug's* I've not written anything serious on Unix since I did a 3D modelling program on the HP730's at uni. years ago. I used the VXP GUI designer and Motif library's for that. I'm not about to pay out for Motif though, and Qt seems real easy to get into (ie. it took me approx 2 hours to get the hang of writing apps with it). If you know of a better free toolkit (with nice GUI/app builder tools available) I'd be interested to look at it before I actually start coding. One thing though - Qt has an OpenGL widget class to make it simple to add the 3D support. Do any other toolkit's have something similar? On last thing though, there's a totally free clone of Qt being produced.....Harmony or something. Should solve any release license problems by the time I finish the thing. > James_likes_being_contraversial Craig (up early 'coz he's living with Staff Nurse Robinson)