Qt-interest Archive, June 2007
why no visual studio integration?
Message 1 in thread
Why is there no visual studio integration from Trolltech in the opensource
versions?
IMHO it's only a good way to keep those interested in learning Qt to stay
away. You use Studio for the IDE so mingw is out of the question.
I'm not a troll, I'm just curios to know why? There must be a good reason
that I can't think of.
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Message 2 in thread
>Why is there no visual studio integration from Trolltech in the opensource
>versions?
>IMHO it's only a good way to keep those interested in learning Qt to stay
>away. You use Studio for the IDE so mingw is out of the question.
>
>I'm not a troll, I'm just curios to know why? There must be a good reason
>that I can't think of.
>
Imho Qt is fairly good to use with visual studio and the open source
version. A Qt project file is created easily and fast and and makes yoru
code easily ported to otehr platforms. Qmake then automatically creates your
visual studio project file and takes care about all the build steps in VS.
Why would i have to use MinGW??? VS works just fine... ok i dont have the
integrated designer. I dont lose much by switching to another window and use
my designer there. Also i dont use teh integrated help of VS. I like the Qt
Assistant. ALl information i need is available there.
if you are interested in learning Qt with visual studio, the opensource
version offers all you need. I learned it that way!!! (or i am still trying
to)
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Message 3 in thread
"Bastian Dittmar" <keulerman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Imho Qt is fairly good to use with visual studio and the open source
> version. A Qt project file is created easily and fast and and makes yoru
> code easily ported to otehr platforms. Qmake then automatically creates
> your visual studio project file and takes care about all the build steps
> in VS. Why would i have to use MinGW??? VS works just fine... ok i dont
> have the integrated designer. I dont lose much by switching to another
> window and use my designer there. Also i dont use teh integrated help of
> VS. I like the Qt Assistant. ALl information i need is available there.
> if you are interested in learning Qt with visual studio, the opensource
> version offers all you need. I learned it that way!!! (or i am still
> trying to)
The integrated designer is pretty cool but I don't use it
enough to comment on that.
I agree with you that QtAssistant is nicer than the integrated help
in most cases.
IMO it's the moc management that makes
the integration useful. Just add the headers to your project
and they get moc'd when needed. No need to run QMake
at all. And the ability to switch Qt versions is pretty
slick as well.
As to why Qt doesn't supply VS Integration with the
open source version, you'd have to ask them. AFAIK
the open source version only supports MinGW anyway.
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Message 4 in thread
>
> The integrated designer is pretty cool but I don't use it
> enough to comment on that.
>
> I agree with you that QtAssistant is nicer than the integrated help
> in most cases.
>
> IMO it's the moc management that makes
> the integration useful. Just add the headers to your project
> and they get moc'd when needed. No need to run QMake
> at all. And the ability to switch Qt versions is pretty
> slick as well.
>
> As to why Qt doesn't supply VS Integration with the
> open source version, you'd have to ask them. AFAIK
> the open source version only supports MinGW anyway.
But if you used qmake -tp vc on the projects outside of VS is not that
hard, and in 4.2 qmake -tp vc -r works great for solutions with multiple
projects.
Scott
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Message 5 in thread
On 13.06.07 22:18:59, debian@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Why is there no visual studio integration from Trolltech in the opensource
> versions?
> IMHO it's only a good way to keep those interested in learning Qt to stay
> away. You use Studio for the IDE so mingw is out of the question.
Huh? AFAIK mingw with Eclipse/CDT is very much an alternative to VS.
> I'm not a troll, I'm just curios to know why? There must be a good reason
> that I can't think of.
Well one reason is that the open-source Version doesn't support VS, so
there's no reason to supply the integration stuff.
Andreas
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Message 6 in thread
debian@xxxxxxxxx schrieb:
> Why is there no visual studio integration from Trolltech in the opensource
> versions?
Commercial reasons I guess - this subject has been discussed extensively
around the time when 4.0 came out, so you are 0.3 versions too late with
your question ;)
Cheers, Oliver
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