SciTech Software, Inc. today announced that it has completed the initial release of SciTech SNAP Graphics for QT/Embedded. This release is based on SciTech latest System Neutral Access Protocol (SNAP) architecture and shows SciTech’s resolve to further enable the emerging embedded market with a level of graphics performance usually reserved for mainstream desktop machines. Additionally, SciTech began alpha testing on a new Linux version of SciTech SNAP Graphics.
SciTech SNAP Adds Support for QT/Embedded
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Does this mean that we can replace /usr/X11R6 with snap and QT for our GUI?
That would be really cool
Yes, you can run QT/Embedded as your GUI, even without SNAP. Of course, without SNAP, you only get a dumb framebuffer (in other words, very slow graphics). This also means you can only run QT apps, not anything that needs X11. This makes sense for many embedded applications. For general usage, you would probably want to use our X11 SNAP drivers.