"John Smith" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Thanks for the reply. I had though that Qt would actually be slower than
.NET due to its massive library size. I have found Qt very simple to use
when setting up the GUI.
Actually, Qt isn't *that* big. You need to distribute QtCore4.dll and
QtGui4.dll, and these total about 7 -10 MB depending on how they are
built. It's way faster than .NET, perormance-wise. The core framework is
much more evolved than MFC's, for example it has classes that have
built-in Base64 and URL encoding, QString is UTF16 native and has member
functions to easily convert to and from Utf8, Ascii, etc. As in, it
solves problems you typically encounter in 2009 and not in 1999! ;)
It's an excellent time to look at Qt. Version 4.5 was released yesterday,
for the first time it is fully LPGL'd, and there is free VS integration
letting you work in Visual Studio (2005 or 2008).
-- David