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kojacker is offline kojacker
2010-05-29 , 18:29
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#208
Originally Posted by Lullen View Post
I think there need to be more guides that do not expect you to do some thinking on your own(trolltech guides can be hard). This is my first qt program I write, even my first c++ program and I have had some problems with guides that expect you to understand a bit but you don't. I think that a lot of the problem I have been struggling have been the enviroment and a lot of that have been fixed in the new SDK. Before that I had big problems with compiling etc so I never wrote more then 10 lines of code.
I must admit, I had the same thoughts. Personally I dont find Qt very good, added to that I'm a Java programmer and stayed away from C++ all my life. So Qt is not a favorite option for me. What I did was turn to Python, using the best bit of Qt, the Qt Designer, only for the application GUI and then finishing the application by using Python as the implementation language - PyQt is Python bindings for the C++ Qt modules and methods so I can do all the same stuff but it's much easier to get started imo You also have other packages such as PyGame for, as the name suggests, more gaming related applications. You can find out more about pymaemo at the wiki http://wiki.maemo.org/PyMaemo, also the tutorial link in the first post goes through the environment setup for working with Qt and Python - it's very good imo.
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