[Mono-list] Qt acquired by Digia

[Daniel Hughes]

I considered using QT for wide margin but I had to rule it out due to the
following:

1. The QT bindings appear to not be maintained.
2. The QT bindings are not included in the debian repros.

Cheer,
Daniel Hughes

On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 6:35 AM, IBBoard <ibboard at gmail.com> wrote:

> There are already Qt libraries for Mono - they're called Qyoto [1], and
> they're maintained by the KDE team. They're basically a thin wrapper around
> Qt using some automated tools. That means that they're far more
> object-oriented friendly than GTK# *except* when it comes to connecting
> methods to events ("signals" in the Qt world), which require the use of a
> string for the signal name, causing errors in connecting events to not
> emerge until you actually run the code.
>
> Anyway, that's how it used to be when I last tried Qt a few years ago. It
> also seemed less stable than GTK# (it crashed out for reasons I couldn't
> understand), and I needed a script to manually run the Qt .ui files through
> a compiler to genereate the .cs files. Great possibilities, but it just
> didn't have the interest to get it all ironed out and working.
>
> I think the biggest reason for the low take-up of Qt support is that Mono
> started as a Gnome-based thing and so focused on GTK. KDE were already
> using Qt/C++ and didn't seem to take up C# as much.
>
>
> [1] http://techbase.kde.org/**Development/Languages/Qyoto<http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Languages/Qyoto>
>
>
>
> On 10/08/12 12:43, philippe.monteil wrote:
>
>> http://blog.qt.nokia.com/
>>
>> Given the multiplateform nature of Qt and Mono, I would really like to
>> see a
>> strong connection between the two...
>>
>>
>>
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