[ML-General] qt training

[david]

Sorry, group, I thought this was going just to Susan.

David



On 12/20/2015 06:53 PM, david wrote:
> Susan,
>
> I'm up for it.  Gaining ground on the knowledge of it bit by bit.  And
> I mean that literally.  Even with the books I have, not a single one
> of them can be followed verbatim with Qt 5.5.x.  <sigh>
>
> I did find a gem, though.  With a previous normal Makefile, one can
> use "qmake -project" and generate a Qt project based upon the original
> Makefile.  Usually, some editing required, of course.
>
> Wasn't there a guy who said he might could give us pointers?  I don't
> have those emails as I have to reconstruct X on that machine.  It was
> my normal email computer; this one is just a backup so I don't have a
> lot of history in it.  (Power outage corrupted a few files, yes, even
> on Linux that happens.  I now have a UPS for it, too.)
>
> David
>
>
> On 12/20/2015 05:37 PM, Susan Spencer wrote:
>> hey David,
>> You and I had a thread about this. You didn't get much of a bite on
>> the general thread so we took it offline. I think you had a specific
>> problem installing Qt on a Raspberri Pi which you resolved and then
>> the offline thread died. 
>>
>> I'm still interested in learning more about Qt. There are reasons why
>> a group of people looking into it is a good idea.
>>
>> The documentation is notoriously sparse. And Qt has different
>> development approaches for using Python versus Javascript versus C++,
>> and on top of that there are differences for building
>> mobil/crossplatform apps versus Mac/Linux/Windows compiled apps. 
>>
>> And then there's all the Qt widgets to get to know. Plus the
>> undocumented features like the build option to use a specified number
>> of processors which only works on Windows but not on Linux, because
>> on Linux it will use *all* processors, which can lock up your
>> computer. Plus the version distributed with Ubuntu was created to
>> build apps for their phone (which is now a dead project), and you
>> have to remove that version before you reinstall it from the general
>> distribution repo.
>>
>> Lots of people around here know a particular usage of Qt. It would be
>> super beneficial if we compared notes. 
>>
>> - Susan
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 1:56 AM, Phillip Showers
>> <phillip.showers at gmail.com <mailto:phillip.showers at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     There is no QT effort that I know of.
>>     Phil
>>
>>     On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 4:51 AM, david <ainut at knology.net> wrote:
>>
>>         Whatever happened to the Qt effort, please?
>>
>>         Thanks,
>>         David Merchant
>>
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