From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 8 02:38:21 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02AEA106570E for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2012 02:38:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jbiquez@intranet.com.mx) Received: from intranet.com.mx (intranet.com.mx [200.33.246.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C47CA8FC19 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2012 02:38:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from PC2.intranet.com.mx (189.191.76.105) by intranet.com.mx with ESMTP (EIMS X 3.3.9) for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 20:39:18 -0600 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:38:04 -0600 To: FreeBSD Questions From: Jorge Biquez In-Reply-To: References: <3411412722-917504491@intranet.com.mx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Message-ID: <3411513558-703366400@intranet.com.mx> Cc: Subject: Re: Software Development using Freebsd. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:38:21 -0000 Hello all. I have been reading in detail all your comments and advice. Thank you very much for your time. I have clear vision now of what do I need to do. I comment today to my students the help we were getting and all of them send you a BIG "THANK YOU VERY MUCH" comment. I hope that wieth your help and comments I could help them more. Thanks again to all. Have a nice day/night. Jorge Biquez At 06:23 p.m. 07/02/2012, C. P. Ghost wrote: >On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Waitman Gobble wrote: > > > > On Feb 6, 2012 6:13 PM, "C. P. Ghost" wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Jorge Biquez > >> wrote: > >> > Now we will try to have a graphical mode in Freebsd. With that we would > >> > like > >> > to be able to develop graphical applications for Windows (we all know > >> > that's > >> > the market and here some companies is what they are looking), so maybe > >> > sound > >> > crazy but I am looking to develop applications for Windows without using > >> > WIndows or Microsofot products at least. > >> > >> Go for Qt. It is a great cross-platform C++ GUI framework, with plugins to > >> SQL > >> databases, networking and everything you would typically need. There's > >> even > >> PyQt, if you want Python bindings. > >> > >> Check out the examples in the Qt distribution too to get an idea: > >> > >> http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.8/all-examples.html > > > > I agree Qt is a great solution however you are probably going to want to > > ship static binaries to windows clients (only), especially to non-techical > > end users... otherwise it gets kind of insane, much more challenging than > > distributing java based apps IMHO. > > > > But the IDE is fantastic plus you get a nice integration with webkit. > > > > if I remember (been awhile) the license terms are a little different for > > static, would have to re-read carefully. > >I don't know about licensing issues w.r.t. static binaries; but you're >absolutely right: it's definitely worth looking into. > >Another cross-platform GUI is wxWidgets (C++, but has Python >bindings too). It's not as rich a library as Qt IMHO, but quite nice >too. You may want to combine wxWidgets with Poco though (all >of this is in ports, btw). > >-cpghost. > >-- >Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/