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Originally Posted by Nathan
OK, I just checked on the Qt website. It looks like they do have a free version available under the LGPL license. But, if you ever decide you want to sell one of your programs with Qt, you'll have the pay the 4K licensing fee.
WxWidgets has a lot of features, maybe that's what you mean by complex?
If you decide to try out WxWidgets, use the "WxPack," not the "real" version where you have to build the library yourself.
http://wxpack.sourceforge.net/ |
You need to look into LGPL further. You do NOT have to pay for licensing if you want to sell a program later!
I will put in a huge word for Qt here. I've been using it for the last 5-6 years at work for cross platform development. Previous to this, I had used Microsoft MFC and also some other cross platform libraries. Qt is by far the best thought out and most comprehensive solution, and it's now free. I've convinced a few people to spend a weekend with Qt and a 'programming with Qt' book, and they've all been able to get started quickly. Certainly much faster than with straight windows calls or MFC. It was written by programmers for programmers and it shows in the logical design. The extras, such as networking, xml, database, and so on are just great extras.
Steve