Re: [Opencfd-develop] GUI toolkits

[Anton K. <an...@ku...>]

The last thing. Sorry...

MFC is not acceptable for the open source project. Indeed, if QT is 
GPL'd for Linux (or free windows project, please read the licence!) MFC 
is never and will be never licensed for free usage. You have to buy .Net 
toolkit and so on still. That license is expensive.

Finally, MFC and GPL together is nonsense!

Anton

Daniel Labrosse wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I've thought about using this WxWidgets (formerly WxWindows) GUI 
> toolkit some time ago but my gut feelings are as follows....
>
> 1. Never used it so it▓s a learning curve
> 2. I'm not sure how stable it is and I don▓t know any commercial 
> projects written in it.
> 3. If we agree to use Open Cascade, it has out of the box support MFC 
> and QT not WxWidgets
>
> Personally, I think at this stage platform independence is minor 
> issue. The sooner we get coding the quicker we will get a prototype 
> working. I▓ve also looked at using Java for the GUI but I▓m reluctant 
> to start using it since most of the engine will be coded in C++ and 
> JNI bridging/JVM incompatibilities will only cause headaches. So C++ 
> is definitely the way to go!
>
> I think we should use either QT or MFC for the GUI. Here are my pros 
> and cons or both:
>
> MFC Pros:
> Stable toolkit,
> Used everywhere,
> Knowledge base: There are hundreds of MFC developers out there so 
> it▓ll be easy to recruit developers. Also, I▓m currently developing an 
> MFC application where I work!
>
> MFC Cons:
> You are locked into using windows
>
> QT Pros:
> Stable toolkit
> Better design than MFC
> Cross platform
>
> QT Cons:
> Free Licensing is only available to Linux, which effectively locks us 
> into using Linux and alienates approximately 80% of our potential users.
>
>
> If we get a prototype up and running using MFC then in the future we 
> can port our code to Linux toolkit. For now, the most important thing 
> is to get working version up and running! Let me know what you guys 
> think.
>
> -Dano
>
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