I have been using Qt Creator for the last year. It has been good but as of lately when I reinstalled my OS (Ubuntu) I cannot get the additional libraries (QtCharts) to work with Qt making my program I made useless. I was hoping to find something that is C++ based (sorry no python or java). I have been contemplating using GTK but I am unsure of its charting capabilities. Any suggestions?
Alternative to QT
- Thread starter gaihosa
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I've been through this myself. I've used Qt in the past for work but for my own purposes it's too heavy and intrusive.
The first alternative I used for a couple of years was wxWidgets. It's actually pretty nice and has a lighter-weight framework than Qt.
I recently switched from wxWidgets to fltk. fltk is very lightweight but you have to do more work yourself.
Philosophically I don't like GUI frameworks like Qt. The main problem with Qt is your whole application is Qt-flavored from top to bottom. The reason for this is Qt and similar frameworks define all their own types, from Qstring to Qthread. I wanted to use C++ native types whenever possible. Also, Qt and similar drive the design where your code runs within Qt. Again, philosophically what I wanted was a lightweight GUI library that *my* code would call, not the other way around.
The first alternative I used for a couple of years was wxWidgets. It's actually pretty nice and has a lighter-weight framework than Qt.
I recently switched from wxWidgets to fltk. fltk is very lightweight but you have to do more work yourself.
Philosophically I don't like GUI frameworks like Qt. The main problem with Qt is your whole application is Qt-flavored from top to bottom. The reason for this is Qt and similar frameworks define all their own types, from Qstring to Qthread. I wanted to use C++ native types whenever possible. Also, Qt and similar drive the design where your code runs within Qt. Again, philosophically what I wanted was a lightweight GUI library that *my* code would call, not the other way around.
Thank you for the reply. I agree with your points but there were some up sides also. I do really like the slot and slots. The real problem I am having is reinstalling it. For whatever reason I can't get the module qt charts to connect to it.
I was looking at the those other libraries you mentioned. Nice to know you had a good experience with both of them. Which one would you recommend for charting?