Recently Alfkil has ported the Qt gui toolkit to AOS4 and thanks to that seems that great tools can be ported then.
I guess if It's difficult to port from Aos to MOS as I think It bring us new doftware.

What do you think?

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I dont think it is worth effort. But if someone decide to port QT to MorphOS I can help to build a shared library.

As I know, Qt apps are death slow on OS4.

Trolltech spent years polishing Qt to be a good and fast library.
It is funny to hear, that a guy just ported it to OS4 in some months. It's not a big surprize, that it just not works soo much well.

I think, the porting is a waste of time.

I have read that the last version is fast enough. Much faster than the old one.

I bet it is (was?) slow on SAM-class hardware, but it should be alright on used Macs.

Just out of curiousity, where is the source code of that port? I don't have plans to port it but I wanted to have a quick look to see what the guy did.

> where is the source code of that port?

http://sourceforge.net/p/qtamigaosnative/code/131/tree/trunk/src/

Thanks

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You can't "know', because it's not true. It is even reasonably usable on my Sam440ep (667 MHz). And I think is was no waste of time, in more than one regard.

"easonably usable" can mean a lot of differnet things for a lot of different people...

(heck I remember some people claiming that the 1st TimberMilf alpha was useable !!)

For me it's stop where it is again another alien toolkit used to infest a system with nonports.

Oh, yes. I know that feeling - all those (Open)GL, SDL, Cairo stuff. Not even Envoy is used most of the time - most people use TCP/IP stacks nowadays. Even Icons are PNF format - not IFF for some unknown reason. Ah, nevermind, it's all so disappointing...

You have to use only Qt based programs if you want but I think It´s good to have options, programs to can use....Yes, I prefer original Amiga stuff but there are not so many coders out there.

Porting Qt is better than nothing.
But preferable would be rewriting the app based on MUI using open source libraries.

Porting a Qt application would be a complete rewrite in most cases. I don't think of this as a zero-sum game, people who would port Qt applications are probably not interested in rewriting almost everything from scratch.

[ Edited by BSzili 28.07.2013 - 20:11 ]

If QT runs reasonably fast and can be made to integrate seamlessly with the MorphOS user interface, this should be a good thing.

That said, due to the inherent complexity of a rich framework such as QT, getting everything to run well and stably should take quite some effort and time.

if it allows to make SoulSeekQT portable, i vote for it with both hands up.

Did anything ever become of this? I'd sure love to see a port of DiskImagery64 to MorphOS!!!

Given the size of the framework, it would have been quite an achievement if someone have ported it in just ~2,5 months.

edit: BTW, a Qt port is among my future plans, perhaps as a joint bounty with AROS. But that's not going to happen anytime soon.

[ Edited by BSzili 09.10.2013 - 11:00 ]

Great! I'll be ready to donate then...

@red/ round'n'square

Both apps (with just looking at the screenshots) seem to have relativly little in GUI, with most of the code/functionality happening offscreen.

Doing a proper MUI-port for either of those should be easily doable IF that backend code is portable.
If it ain't you wouldn't find much help within a QT-port.

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So I guess Soulseek is out, QT or no QT.

[ Edited by Kronos 10.10.2013 - 15:00 ]

redrumloa,
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Hm, at least it seems to build just nicely. Haven't tested all functionality, but so far it works. Alas, wrong system for this forum, I assume...

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Seeing that link I though I would end up somewhere here:

http://www.ruthe.de/ ;)

Downloaded DI64 and after removing images and text files I was down to just 250k of source. Someone withe descent knowledge of C64 images and MUI could probraly rewrite/port that within a weekend...

Kronos,
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Yep, that's the other one - who invented the "Indernett".

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Absolutely possible - but typing "qmake" and gmake" is still faster...

Kronos,
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You think a small bounty would bear fruit?

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You mean like 50$ aka "not even one night out" ?? *runs*

Just typed "make" in the "diskimage-0.95" subdir and that created a bunch of working binaries (working as in : don't crash and ouput a simple useage pattern).

Might see if I can install & recompile it under OSX sometimes later (maybe this WE). But for now it seems it just a bunch of rather simple GUIs running those binaries and than displaying the result. Not sure what that "net" subdir is supposed to do. Running those images from 1 computer in an emulator on another ? Why not just use samba,ftp etc ??

If you want a proper port (which I won't promise here&now) you'd need to walk me through what this app can actually do, and which parts of it you really need.

Some changing/adding/removing files from those images should atleast be doable.

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Actually "diskimage-0.95" is a small link-lib and the tools are just the test cases for, API seems straightforward, so writing a MUI-class that put the filenames into a ListView and then reads/write the file to/from a directory on the MorphOS-side (where you could modify/display them) can be with ease.