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On May 15, 2006, at 8:58 PM, Wojtek Skulski wrote:
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On Mon, 15 May 2006, J Stanley Warford wrote:
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This comment by Rene fits my situation exactly. I have reluctantly
switched my development efforts from BlackBox to C++ using Qt from
Trolltech because the software I distribute (software to support one of
my computer science textbooks) must be cross-platform. That is why I
adopted BlackBox in the first place, when it supported the Mac as well
as MSWindows. I do not have the resources to maintain separate code
trees and separate development environments for different platforms.
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I am curious why did you not switch to Oberon System-3 or its later
incarnation such as Native? As far as I know, System-3 is actively
supported and it is cross-platform.
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Because I am not willing to impose on my users (or myself, for that
matter) the requirement to dual boot to another operating system just
to run an application. That is why I had rejected Oberon earlier,
before BlackBox came on the scene. Cross-platform under the host
operating system is a necessary condition for me.
At this point in time, the only other development environment that
competes for my development efforts is Java. In my opinion, Qt from
Trolltech, with its signals and slots mechanism for GUI widgets is on a
far sounder technical footing than Java. It is not as elegant or
efficient as BlackBox and it is based on C++, which is horrible
compared to CP. I hate C++. However, the Qt API hides a lot of ugliness
behind an effective metacompiler and a visual GUI designer with an XML
backend. Plus, I get Linux/Unix, MSWidows, and Mac OS X versions of my
application all with one code tree.
--Stan
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