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What is Qt?  I think it is a GUI library - anyone have more info?  What makes it a good match for Tcl - or at least, of interest (other than academic)?



[NEM] - Qt is the library used by [KDE] applications isn't it?
[CL] answers:  yes and no.  KDE itself is constructed with Qt;
that's true.  It's possible to launch an application made with
any X toolkit from KDE, though, so what people ''think'' are 
"KDE applications" might only be X applications.

[Mike Tuxford] points out: Qt, while currently 'free' to use is privately copyrighted IP and is subject to change. There have been previous concerns that the Qt license could change and in todays dog-eat-dog market one can never know when the company might be bought out and the license changed. A GPL'd alternative would be [GTK] which is used by the Gnome X environment.














[George Petasis] observes that "Under Qt, the programmer can
control only a few aspects of how the widget looks. The vast majority
of the appearance of the widget is determined by the theme."
Also surprising, from a [Tk] programmer's perspective, is that a button
can't be simultaneously decorated with an image and a label.

George has prototyped a [TkQt] at
[ftp://www.iit.demokritos.gr/pub/skel/petasis/tcl/TkQt.tar.gz].
An alternate URL for the same file is
[http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/~petasis/Tcl/TkQt.tar.gz].







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[CL] collects more Qt references at http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.windows.misc/Qt.html .