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[Rok Markovič <rok@...>]

Hi

In our company we Qt for almost 5 years now. We have never been dissapointed 
by it. I do not want to make any advertisment, but please take a look at the 
documentation of QGraphicsScene, QGraphicsItem,.... IMHO this are very well 
written classes from which others could learn. Also Qt uses its own renderer. 
Practice has shown that it is very fast and efficient too. (smooth zooming of 
couple of thousand items). (Win and linux).

There was already an idea to switch from wxWidgets to Qt. Is there any 
estimate of the time needed for conversion?

Please note that I am just making my opinion!

Rok

Dne četrtek 18. februarja 2010 ob 09:22:43 ste napisali:
> > I was suggesting from the beginning the escape of msw/cairo for this
> > reason, moreover GDI+ was dumped in the latest windows releases as the
> > standard is now Direct2D:
> > (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd370990(VS.85).aspx) HW
> > accelerated, so users are cut in two slices with a cut between XP and
> > Vista.
> 
> During my entire 27 year software career, any developer who has been
> marching to the Microsoft drumbeat, is always mumbling to
> himself..."must I really follow this parade, while we all watch
> Microsoft learn how to program" (taking wrong turns, changing
> direction, wasting developer's money).
> 
> It gets expensive if continued. I'd be embarrassed to say how much
> money it has cost me, and you would not believe it. In the entire list
> of items on the table, the worst component comes from Microsoft
> (GDI+). And the worst decision made among all developers supporting
> all components under discussion, was made by the guy who decided to base
> his work on Microsoft, wxGraphicsContext on GDI+.
> 
> Now, we see Microsoft make a sharp turn again, abandoning GDI+, hosing
> the poor cool-aid drinker with his own cool-aid (the developer of
> wxGraphicsContext on GDI+). Who cares what Direct2D is, whatever,
> yawn. Build on it, and it will be yanked out from under you in a few
> years, or covered in some other API that they want you to switch to.
> 
> 
> Just a couple of observations. This crap cannot go unnoticed.
> 
> 
> 1996 was when I jumped ship, its been the same since 1985 when they
> introduced OS2 as co-equal partners with IBM, rallied folks like me, and
> then shot us in the head when they turned around against the parade and
> killed everyone that they had rallied up, slapping their partner IBM in
> the face too.
> 
> 
> All things being equal, I would prefer a C++ API to a C one. A C API
> is bound to infest the code somewhat, but if it is hidden C then this is
> moot obviously.
> 
> 
> Dick
> 
> 
> 
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