Thread: Maemo 6 loosing source compatibility with plain Qt, and Symbian^4
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arlehyn is offline arlehyn
2010-01-15 , 07:43
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#131
Originally Posted by dubik View Post
I said it many times. You can run Qt apps on Maemo and Symbian. Noone is going to remove that. Don't want to write platform specific app with DirectUI, use QWidgets and you will be fine
So what's the purpose of Orbit and DUI then? Ie. what functionality they provide, that will not be available to cross-platform applications? Ie. why would a programmer want to use them in the first place? Ie. will cross-platform apps be seriously crippled in some ways?

Will it be possible to mix plain Qt and Orbit/DUI? What I mean, can Orbit/DUI widgets be insde Qt widgets, or vice versa?

What I'm after is this: Let's say there's some functionality where there exists both Orbit and DUI widget, but no plain Qt widget. So programmer would want to use plain QT for everything else, but us this functionality with something like #ifdef#else#endif around the device specific widget initialization. Is this easily possible, or will it require a lot of wrapper code, or will it be completely unsupported?