Active Objects Meet Qt...

The new QP/C++ Development Kit for Qt (https://sourceforge.net/projects/qpc/files/QDK-Cpp_Qt ) allows you to build highly modular, well structured, multithreaded desktop, embedded, or mobile Qt5 applications with dazzling GUI based on the concept of active objects (a.k.a. actors).

QP/C++ complements Qt by providing the high-level structure, while Qt renders the GUI and provides various services. The active object computing model underlying QP raises the level of abstraction and provides a more productive architecture, which is safer to use, more efficient, and easier to understand than the programming with the low-level QThread and QWaitCondition classes of Qt, which are just thin wrappers around the POSIX-threads API.

The QP-Qt integration can be also useful for rapid prototyping (virtual prototyping), simulation, and testing of embedded software on the desktop, including building realistic user interfaces consisting of buttons, knobs, LEDs, dials, and LCD displays (including graphic displays and segment displays). Moving embedded software development from an embedded target to the desktop eliminates the target system bottleneck and dramatically shortens the development time while improving the quality of the software.

All these options get especially attractive if you consider using the QM™ modeling tool for designing QP/Qt applications graphically and generating code automatically.