Re: Tk's lack of "chrome" (prompted by Re: Tk::FunkyButton ?)
Rob Seegel <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lang.perl.tk |
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Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: >Paul Falbe <[email protected]> writes: > > >>Now seems a good time to mention some work we've been doing >>with froglogic.com. I needed to do some programming for PDAs running >>Qtopia. Since, I am better programmer in PerlTk then C++/Qt >>I commissioned Harri Porten of froglogic.com to build me >>perlTk emmulator if you will using the Qt toolkit instead >>of Tk. The project is far enough along that I have a 7300+ >>Pq (Perl with Qt) project. The syntax is perlTk but >>uses Qt. >> >> > >Sounds interesting. >Qt is another option. My preference for gtk is mainly biased by >non-western language support - but I haven't looked at Qt recently. > > I have to admit I'm a little biased towards Qt myself. I prefer it's API, and it has decent I18N support. There may be some licensing concerns using it however. It carries a dual license, which allows free use within Open source efforts, but carries another license for commercial efforts. I should point out that I don't personally find this unreasonable - the Trolltech has every right to make money from their product which they support very well, IMO. I do realize that for some, this could be a problem. Rob -++**==--++**==--++**==--++**==--++**==--++**==--++**== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe ptk" to [email protected]