Thread: [Under consideration] An easy way for a Windows user to start developing in Qt for Maemo 5
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2009-10-25 , 19:21
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tekojo,

without worrying about the keystone generic Qt classes you mentioned, I think what attila77 said a couple of pages back is very relevant and will need catering for with the tablet classes.

Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
I might have missed something here, but how will you solve the problem of Maemo APIs if you develop with Qt Creator on a desktop platform ? Only the simplest of apps can be developed in Creator and then 'just compiled in SB', and even then, you WILL have ifdefs. Try to access the address book, the desktop, widgets, MAFW, the location framework, accelerometers, cellular or IM functionality and suddently you find yourself in the middle of nowhere...
even if these nokia mobile platform * classes return dummy data when run on the desktop initially (perhaps the API could be generic enough to allow outlook contact lookup etc) it would help integration. this is sasler said in reply.

is it possible to use some the C definitions in use for the current libraries to construct the revision 0.01 binding classes of the required functions based on their APIs?
(i know it is in python, but not sure how to go about it in Qt)

thats just just thinking about something like hermes or some of the requested/implemented widgets.


* named to attempt to cater for symbian too
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