[ML-General] qt training

[Susan Spencer]

Hey Chris,

Is that the "*Qt Wading Pool with ctag (aka just the basics)*" talk?
Maybe you could schedule the date for it and people can figure out if they
can attend.

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Chris Bero <bigbero at gmail.com> wrote:

> David and mailing list,
>
> I meant to reply to this earlier, sorry for the delay.
>
> I've added an intro to Qt talk for Eat-n-Educate
> <https://256.makerslocal.org/wiki/Eat-n-Educate#Yet_to_be_scheduled>. I
> only know the bare basics: Qt-Creator, auto-generated makefiles, QWidgets
> Applications for desktop, etc.
>
> What's going to happen here is that I'll get bogged down with school in
> about a month and not have time for a real EnE talk, but if there are any
> questions or starting pointers I can help with then I'll be more than happy
> to speak with anyone interested.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Bero
>
> Chris Bero
>
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 6:55 PM, david <ainut at knology.net> wrote:
>
>> 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>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>
>>> ainut at knology.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Whatever happened to the Qt effort, please?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> David Merchant
>>>>
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