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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!omega.metrics.com!omega.metrics.com!not-for-mail From: info@troll.no Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.announce Subject: SOFTWARE: Qt 1.0 released (c++ gui library) Followup-To: poster Date: 27 Sep 1996 05:42:01 -0400 Organization: Troll Tech AS, fax +47 22646949 Lines: 76 Sender: tomh@omega.metrics.com Approved: tomh@metrics.com Message-ID: <52g7h9$4co@omega.metrics.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: omega.metrics.com X-Followup-To: sorry, but there isn't any truly appropriate group since the demise of comp.windows.misc X-URL: http://www.troll.no/ Qt is a complete and well-developed object-oriented framework for developing graphical user interface applications using C++. It has been used professionally for over a year. Troll Tech is proud to release a free version of Qt for the X Window System. This release, Qt 1.0, is free for free software development on all operating systems that support the X Window System and includes the complete Qt source code for X and makefiles for Linux, Solaris, SunOS, FreeBSD, OSF/1, Irix, BSD/OS, NetBSD, SCO and HP-UX. New platforms may be added in the future. Qt has excellent documentation: 450 pages of postscript and fully cross-referenced online html documentation. See it on the web: http://www.troll.no/qt/ Qt is easy to learn, with consistent naming across all the classes and a 14-chapter on-line tutorial with links into the rest of the documentation. Qt dramatically cuts down on development time and complexity in writing user interface software for the X Window System. It allows the programmer to focus directly on the programming task, and not mess around with low-level X11 code. Qt is fully object-oriented. All widgets and dialogs are C++ objects, and, using inheritance, creation of new widgets is easy and natural. Qt's revolutionary signal/slot mechanism provides true component programming. Reusable components can work together without any knowledge of each other, and in a type-safe way. Qt has a very fast paint engine, in some cases ten times faster than most other toolkits. You have full access to low-level painting functionality. Painting is device independent, so the same code that draws on the screen can generate printer output. You can also do arbitrary clipping, rotation, and scaling - simply and fast. Qt is very fast and compact because it is based directly on Xlib and uses neither Motif nor X Intrinsics. Qt's widgets (user interface objects) emulate the Motif look and feel, with slight improvements. Qt is available under several licenses: - for commercial use - for use with free software (X only) - for shareware developers (X only) Note that the toolkit is the same, only the licenses differ. The Qt GUI toolkit is copyright Troll Tech AS. It is available (at the time of writing) for Windows 95/NT and several variations of Unix (X11 release 5 or later). See http://www.troll.no/ for more availability information, or fax Troll Tech at +47 22646949. Qt can be downloaded from http://www.troll.no/dl/ or via anonymous FTP from ftp.troll.no. Join the qt-interest mailing list by sending a message containing the single word "subscribe" to qt-interest-request@nvg.unit.no. You can contact Troll Tech at Troll Tech AS Postboks 6133 Etterstad N-0602 Oslo Norway fax: +47 22646949 email: sales@troll.no -- [ /tom haapanen -- tomh@metrics.com -- software metrics inc -- waterloo, ont ] [ "how does a project get to be a year late? ] [ ... one day at a time." -- frederick brooks ]