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Qt4 Ported to Haiku, Developer Preview Release Available

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th Oct 2009 11:02 UTC

The Haiku alpha is barely out the door, and we already have another important news item about the open source reimplementation of the BeOS. About 18 months ago, Evgeny Abdraimov started porting the Qt4 graphical toolkit to Haiku, and now, we ave some seriously epic screenshots showing a multitude of Qt4 applications running in Haiku, as well as a developer preview release.

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Good for the platform

by stew on Tue 27th Oct 2009 12:45 UTC

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2005-07-06

I can understand how one can fear that this could impact the development of native applications, but I think this does more good than bad for Haiku. More applications for Haiku makes it more attractive to users - and with it, more attractive to developers who then hopefully will dive into Haiku's code and help with fixing and developing.

I guess now I have to port wxWidgets to restore the balance of power ;-)

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RE: Good for the platform

by cipri on Tue 27th Oct 2009 14:08 in reply to "Good for the platform"

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2007-02-15

I think wxWidgets would be important, because this way codeblocks could be be ported, and Haiku really needs a good IDE like codeblocks.

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RE[2]: Good for the platform

by Timmmm on Wed 28th Oct 2009 16:25 in reply to "RE: Good for the platform"

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2006-07-25

QtCreator is much better than code::blocks, and it is less than a year old.

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