[SDL] Qt + SDL

Sam Lantinga slouken at devolution.com
Thu Sep 7 06:54:03 PDT 2000


> > The possibility exists that Qt will be ported to SDL as a framebuffer
> > target, so that Qt would provide a widget toolkit on top of the existing
> > SDL framework.  I would like to see this with GTk as well. :)
> > It's also possible that TrollTech may port SDL as a widget in the Qt
> > heirarchy, in the same way that SDL currently uses X11.  This would
> > allow "embedded" SDL framebuffer output within a normal GUI framework.

> Oh my god ...
> I'm writing useless (wasteable) code ;-)

> Alex 'ParaGUI' Pipelka

Nah, custom UI toolkits will always have a place.  For example, can Qt
float truetype fonts on an image background?  Well maybe! :)  But it's
not as designed for it as ParaGUI is. :)

See ya,
	-Sam Lantinga, Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software



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