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From: JTait@wyrddreams.demon.co.uk
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Subject: Re: Animation (again)
Date: 8 Feb 1999 23:02:28 -0000
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You're right of course - Qt has the QGLWidget, QGLContext and QGLFormat 
classes, but I'm not sure what they offer over standard widgets.  I do
know you still need an OpenGL lib to link to (Mesa seems to be the accepted
standard).

I have a personal preference for the GTK/GDK option, it's neat and it looks
nice, though of course it isn't OO.  I also found it more stable, Qt seems
to have a few annoying glitches involving window positioning and redraws, 
though that could be a symptom of bad programming practise - I learned what
I know of Qt from the LICQ source and the Qt docs.

It really is a matter of personal preference though - if you're comfortable
with Qt there really isn't any reason why you shouldn't go with that.

Craig Graham (c_graham@hinge.mistral.co.uk) wrote:


: JTait@wyrddreams.demon.co.uk wrote:

: 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?

: Craig
: (up early 'coz he's living with Staff Nurse Robinson)

And who exactly is Staff Nurse Robinson?
(I'm sure I didn't want to ask that....)
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