ideas for QT3Win32

Ralf Habacker ralf.habacker at freenet.de
Sun Dec 28 22:46:33 CET 2003


>I'm a big fan of the QT3 for Win32, I've learned some for Linux QT3, and =
>I'll be waiting for it to be available for windows.

>I'm also hoping in the future that this will mean a windows port of KDE. =
> I hope this will be possible as it's a lot less disorganized than =
>windows explorer.

We would like to see this too and we would like to see more developers working 
on this ports. 

>However I noticed an idea, that I don't know if you folks had.  What if =
>instead of commenting out the connections to the X server and replacing =
>them with MFC connections, why not just write an application that can =
>run as a win32 service much like windows WOWEXEC that runs MFC16 files =
>on MFC32?  basically an executable that will take communication to the X =
>server into itself and communicate this to MFC?  Instead of doing it the =
>way the X server for Cygwin did, (That is through cygwin).

Qt does not use MFC, it uses the native win32 api. Using mfc would add an 
additional unwanted function layer, so I think this idea will not give any 
advantage. 

  
Ralf 



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