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Is the Glade GUI designer a good option for a beginner?
I am a student of Computer Science and I already have basic programming experience in Python 2.x, 3.x, C++, and HTML. I never made a program with a GUI. I have just programmed games, scripts/plugins, ...
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Porting a linux application to windows with Qt by a total noob [closed]
I have already started it seems with the wrong approach of creating a MSVC project and ripping out linux #includes. Then hacking in Glib and Boost libraries and watching MSVC project errors go from 4 ...
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Implementing network support with C++ in QtCreator [closed]
I've started using QtCreator to write and develop some code for desktop applications and now I want to include network support with it to link to REST API's with DropBox or some other stuff like that. ...
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QT-C++ vs Generic C++ and STL
Been brushing up on my C++ lately, on Ubuntu QQ. I love the Qt framework for everything, especially building GUI's. I became quite familiar with it when using PyQt over the last few years.
When ...
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How do objects fit into modern C++ (stl, policy-classes, functional) style?
I'm a bit confused so the question is a bit confusing. TL;dr: how to mix STL and OOP?
From the comment to Best overview to modern C++ paradigms? and ...
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which version of Windows should use I to develop an app
I need to develop a Windows application which can be installed on any version of Windows from XP through 7.
Which version of Windows should I use for application development. I'll be using ...
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Which GUI framework for a GUI newbie but expert C++ developer? [closed]
I have an API that streams short event messages for a human audience. I wish to display this in a beautiful dynamic display to users.
What GUI framework would work best with this data? I'm assuming ...
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C++ Typecasting VS performance
Let's say we're designing a video game. We have some sprites on the map and we want to call some method of the particular sprite at some particular position.
We are using one broadly-known C++ ...
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How to structure unit testing of huge libraries?
I am writing unit tests for a library written in Qt/C++.
The library is rather big, with lots of functionalities. I have a separate unitTest folder which I have my UnitTest.cpp in there. Having all ...
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Qt (C++) vs. JavaFX: What is the relative size of each developer community?
I am deciding between Qt (in C++) and JavaFX for GUI development for an application with a complex back-end (the back-end will be written in C++). If I use JavaFX for the GUI, I will be using JNI to ...
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Necessitas or Java for android application development [closed]
I'm a Qt/C++ developer for Windows and Linux. Now I need to switch to Android OS and program for this operating system. I'm wondering whether it is reasonable to stay with Qt and use Necessitas ...
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Automated Qt testing framework
Can someone recommend a good robust "Free" testing framework for Qt?
Our requirements:
Should be able to test basic mouse click / mouse move events
Should be able to handle non-widget view ...
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Programming C++ using Qt4 [closed]
Hey guys I am really new to the C++ programing I have a little knowledge in C and a bit more in C++, but I do not know them enough to call myself a programmer. I am working as a PHP Web Developer I ...
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PyQt application architecture
I'm trying to give a sound structure to a PyQt application that implements a card game. So far I have the following classes:
Ui_Game: this describes the ui of course and is responsible of
reacting ...
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JavaFX 2.0 vs Qt for cross platform stand-alone application [closed]
I need a bit of advice from you developers who deal with cross-platform applications (specifically programs with a GUI).
I will be creating an application soon that needs to be cross-platform and so ...
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Cross-platform desktop programming: C++ vs. Python [closed]
Alright, to start off, I have experience as an amateur Obj-C/Cocoa and Ruby w/Rails programmer. These are great, but they aren't really helpful for writing cross-platform applications (hopefully ...
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How can I get more programming experience [closed]
I am going to be a third year computer science student and I have read Head first Java, Head First C, and I am currently reading C++ which is the language that I like the most since it has a good ...
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Should I contract someone to help me with an existing project?
I have a paid Android app that I made by myself this past summer and I've been working on it throughout the year. The app is geared toward a professional niche market (but there are people all around ...
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Qt Certification Exams
I'm wondering about doing a Qt Certification Exam this year, but I'm not 100% sure the investment is worth.
I'm considering it because I think it could be a nice + on my resume, and as you know, I'm ...
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Is Multithreading Appropriate for Setting up Multiple Windows in the Same Application?
I am currently working with a Qt Application which tries to use multi threading to accomplish two task
To Prevent the Main Thread's Event Loop from being blocked
To increase computation efficiency
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Which license for a scientific software [closed]
Me and a friend developed an advanced scientific visualization application and would like to understand which licensing should be better for us both in terms of income maximization and as possibility ...
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Is Learning C++ Through The Qt Framework Really Learning C++
The problem I have, is that most of the C++ books I read spend almost forever on syntax and the basics of the language, e.g. for and loops while, arrays, lists, pointers, etc.
But they never seem to ...
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How is C++ in QT different from the standard C++ libraries?
I want my app to be able to manipulate images and create watermarks and also needs to run on both windows and mac. Hence I've been investigating QT.
Does QT ship with all the libraries I will need to ...
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How big a problem is Qt's cross-platform GUI? [closed]
I read something on this site saying that Qt's GUI being a big problem that stop programmers from using Qt. They say the problem is that the GUI don't look native, and they are inconsistent. I ...
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Why are all desktop environments but KDE using GTK? [closed]
I recently did some hacking with Qt, and found it quite pleasant. Then I switched distributions on my laptop a couple of time, and noted that only KDE is using Qt, all the others are using the Gnu ...
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Can a small team enter .NET world while most of them are working on OpenSource languages?
We are a team of about 15 employees, in a non-IT enterprise. Today, we mainly develop websites, using PHP, MySQL, etc. We run a bit less than 100 linux servers on ourselves.
But today, we are ...
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Common Qt Producer/Consumer Example: What is the point of multithreading here?
While trying to figure out how to implement a Producer/Consumer Queue in Qt, I stumpled upon several SO answers, blogs and sites linking to this site:
You're doing it wrong...
I got the point of ...
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Architecture of interaction modes (“paint tools”) for a 3D paint program
We are developing a Qt-based application to navigate through and paint on a volume treated as a 3D pixel graphic. The layout of the app consists of three orthogonal slice views on which the user may ...
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Java vs C++ Qt : what choice for a gentle deployment?
I'm going to develop a GUI application which will process xml data via forms. I have selected two options: Java (swing or swt) or Qt.
I've already try a basic tutorial with both Qt (Qt designer) and ...
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Current C++ IDE options: [closed]
Last time I used C++ - in the late 90's, Borland CPP Dev studio 5 was the dominant product for Win 32's. Obviously the landscape has changed a great deal since then. I have been using Delphi and ...
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GUI-Development with QT for OpenGL/C++/MAC
I am a complete newbie considering QT. Would you say it is recommendable to use. I would like to build a GUI for my programm. I need about 10 buttons.(Maybe more) It would also be nice to have a ...
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Why aren't more desktop apps written with Qt?
As far as I know and have understood in my experience with Qt, it's a very good and easy to learn library. It has a very well designed API and is cross-platform, and these are just two of the many ...
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What are the dangerous corners of Qt? [closed]
There's nothing perfect under the sun. Qt is no exception, and it does have limitations: we can't use pixmaps in a thread other than GUI, we can't use QImage with 16-bit-per-channel image format, ...
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Why would Qt be considered harmful? [closed]
A large list of "harmful stuff" related to software development is presented on cat -v. Is Qt harmful? What would be the rationale for considering to Qt harmful? Why would Tcl/Tk be presented as a ...
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Product demo and .net
I have question about using .Net 3.5 or 4.0
I know that .Net is more productive then Qt but i am afraid of problems when my client leave my product because he cant run e.g demo of my app with lack of ...
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Senior project environment selection
My 2 friends and I are preparing our senior project idea for next year. I need some of different ideas while deciding the base environment of the project, especially from software developers/engineers ...
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Has anyone got a good tutorial for QT? [closed]
I'm trying out opencv integrated with QT4.7 but it's been a while since I touched QT4(.1. I think was the last one I used) I noticed most online tutorials are quite dated and I need to start ...
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Open source projects, how to choose?
I would like to join an open source project since I think I am good enough at programming to progress onto reading others code and to modify it. But the proble mis, how would I choose an open source ...
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Qt's future in the light of Nokia-Microsoft partnership
In case you missed it, a lot has happened in the last two day that could potentially impact the Qt framework, for the worse. :-( It will impact the mobile sector in several and probably not currently ...
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How do I improve my skills as a Qt GUI programmer?
I'm a python & Qt programmer and my day job is create small GUI programs to ship with hardware devices.
However, my job is pretty basic: read/write data to the device through a serial port using ...
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Qt plugin for Eclipse/PyDev
I have installed PyDev and want to start with GUI apps. Heard about Qt but how to integrate it with PyDev? Is there any Python IDE that comes bundled with Qt or other GUI frameworks and also Visual ...
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Web technologies on GUI apps
I developed many GUI applications for the Windows platform during my early professional career, and saw several GUI frameworks come, have whole magazines devoted to them, and then fade away. MFC is ...
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PyQt design issues
I've been working on a my first real project using PyQt lately. I've done just a little bit of work in Qt for C++ but nothing more than just messing around. I've found that the Qt python bindings are ...
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Beginner need help on learning Qt programming [closed]
Thought of learning Qt. Need help from experienced ones out here. How should I begin. Some good books to refer. Some good tutorials to learn...
Edit: Also which is the good IDE available out there ...
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Comparing Qt vs. MFC [closed]
For C++ (Win) devs, what is your case for preferring Qt vs. MFC (or vice versa) for UI development on Windows?
