Saturday 25 July 2009

Qt did MaxGUI

I forgot to mention, last time, that in the beginning of 2007 I knocked together a basic MaxGUI module using Qt as a backend. It was mostly done as some C++ practise, as I was essentially picking it up (C++) as I went along learning the API itself.

Interestingly, it mostly worked, but at the time, being GPL only on Windows, I wasn't overly keen on supporting it - and it's not like there aren't already enough MaxGUI modules floating around as it is!

One advantage to the "MaxGUI wrap" thing, is of course that one only needs to wrap a very small portion of the API, rather than every single method and class. The disadvantage is obvious - in that you only get a nibble of the whole Qt cake.

But you know me... experiment, tinker, kludge...

.. perhaps I'll resurrect it enough to have MaxIDE working in Qt...

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