Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Anyone planned a GTK2-based Multitracker?
From: Samuel Abels (spam_AT_debain.org)
Date: Fri Apr 09 2004 - 23:52:11 EEST
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 22:18, Arnold Krille wrote:
> > As nice as Ardour may be, I personaly still prefer the interfaces of
> > modern UI toolkits, in combination with a nice Object Oriented language
> > (aka C++ :) ).
>
> If you want to write C++, why do you want GTK??? Use a C++-toolkit like Qt.
Despite the fact that this is often discussed as a matter of religion, I
prefer gtkmm because it fits better into the GNOME environment.
Also, this is from the gtkmm-documentation:
http://www.murrayc.com/murray/talks/2002/GUADEC3/notes/html/index.html#id2759245
"QT originates from a time when C++ was not standardised or well
supported by compilers. Its design today is still based upon the choices
available at that time, so it does not play well with more up-to-date
code. Development of QT is still effectively closed - There is still no
public development mailing list, and TrollTech have the normal corporate
conservatism. As an open-source project, its design would have been
improved through public debate, and it would have been possible to
jettison the baggage.
QT duplicates a lot of stuff that is now in the standard library, such
as containers and type information. Most significantly, they modified
the C++ language to provide signals, so that it's difficult to use QT
classes with non-QT classes. gtkmm was able to use standard C++ to
provide signals without changing the C++ language. And we use of
Standard C++ Library containers such as std::string, std::list,
std::vector and their iterators. We even provide STL-style interfaces to
other things such as container children, allowing you to use iterators
and push_back(), etc with these."
So, in essence, gtkmm does it in a more C++ way. :-) (But please let us
not make this a flame; may everyone be free to choose whatever toolkit
he likes best. ;) )
-Samuel
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