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Just wondered what interest there would be in a Qt/KDE based Max GUI module?
Wanting a break from my svn module, I spent yesterday tinkering around with accessing the Qt API through Max, and I have to say that it was interesting to say the least.
Not knowing a ***** about C++ has made it a wee bit of a challenge, given it's built entirely in that language, but I seem to have this scary ability to be able to make it up as I go...
By tea time, I had a Qt Max window generating size, movement and close events :-)
I'm sure if I knew how to use C++, I could do a better job, but it seems to be working. I guess Skid would say that calling directly back into the Max module from my glue code isn't a good idea, but it works.
I was scratching my head for the rest of the evening trying to implement title-less windows, etc, but, as it turned out having then tried to run a Qt example (toplevel) which lets you choose different styles for a window, that it wasn't ME that was the issue. Most of the styles simply didn't work on my (FC6) linux. Either in Gnome or KDE.
Anyhoo, I then split off the module, and started looking at a "KDE" version, which works slightly differently.
As another question to raise, would people prefer a Qt or KDE based module, or both, or neither? :-p
Just wondered what interest there would be in a Qt/KDE based Max GUI module?
Wanting a break from my svn module, I spent yesterday tinkering around with accessing the Qt API through Max, and I have to say that it was interesting to say the least.
Not knowing a ***** about C++ has made it a wee bit of a challenge, given it's built entirely in that language, but I seem to have this scary ability to be able to make it up as I go...
By tea time, I had a Qt Max window generating size, movement and close events :-)
I'm sure if I knew how to use C++, I could do a better job, but it seems to be working. I guess Skid would say that calling directly back into the Max module from my glue code isn't a good idea, but it works.
I was scratching my head for the rest of the evening trying to implement title-less windows, etc, but, as it turned out having then tried to run a Qt example (toplevel) which lets you choose different styles for a window, that it wasn't ME that was the issue. Most of the styles simply didn't work on my (FC6) linux. Either in Gnome or KDE.
Anyhoo, I then split off the module, and started looking at a "KDE" version, which works slightly differently.
As another question to raise, would people prefer a Qt or KDE based module, or both, or neither? :-p