If its anything like the simple form and window design methods used in Visual Basic it will prove and excellent tool. Its also easier to standardise librarys and standards for use in multiple types of window managers and for cross compilation. Likely only the second good idea Gates ever used. When you have a problem or a paid project to write do you want to spend time on silly issues of look and feel or on the core processing which is to be performed by the product. Look and feel is overhead its not worth a lot of time. Also in *nix we have open source which allows millions to contribute to standards and improvements. Now thats what I call Rapid Application Developement. CWSIV On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 09:48, dries wrote:
Steven T. Hatton wrote :
Has anybody worked with KDevelop? IMO this is one of the most important projects in the Linux Community, and especially in the KDE environment. If you've ever worked with JBuilder, you will know what IDE features can add to the development environment. There is NOTHING comperable for C++ that I know of on Linux. http://www.kdevelop.org/ I like JBuilder, and I like doing business with Borland, so I feel kind of bad holding them up as competition, but JBuilder is mark to meet, IMO.
I've been working a bit with KDevelop. I had no previous experience with this kind of 'draw and fill in' kind of programming tools. I have had some trouble attaching functionality to UI-elements. This mainly because there are not many good examples that start from an "i've never used a tool like this" perspective. On the other hand once i got started i must admit it is good to use. The main problem i've encountered is that the few tutorials out there are not really explaining why they do what they do. And that there are 2 kinds of tutorials, the ones that just get you started and the ones that startout with multipledocument stuff and other rather complex stuff.
That's why i (still) allways use the 'KDE-mini' type of application, this is because i wan't some gui stuff done in a simple manner.
Things i still don't understand well :
1) What is the 'real approved' method to attach my QT-designer gui to my program (now i just inherit it to the gui to the application like this :
DevEnv::DevEnv(QWidget *parent, const char *name) : MainForm(parent, name)
2) How can i change the complete gui in a window by clicking a button of the current gui in that window ? (functionality i want for some reason (don't ask me why)).
But in general i would say KDevelop is a powerfull application that (in my opinion) could be even more powerfull (and attractive to new users) if more easy to follow tutorials at more levels of experience were added.
Grtz Dries
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