Qt port checked in

[tomb]

Hi,

A port of the wx gui is now available in hg tip. It's a fairly straight port, most stuff is there except the network tab.
When it's functionality complete I will refactor it to make it more OO/Qt-ish. Then we can start discussing changes for 0.7
As it's still a WIP it's not built by default, excecute 'make luxrenderqt' to build it.

In time the idea is that it will replace the wx-based gui, which has grown to be a PITA to build on some platforms (especially on mac).

Edit: thanks to Cperrin88 for helping out a n00b with Qt Designer

T

[lempour]

oh, 0.7 will have QT gui only?

[tomb]

That's not up to me really We'll see how it pans out

[jeanphi]

Hi,

oh, 0.7 will have QT gui only?

Why the ? is there an issue with using Qt instead of wxWidgets?

Jeanphi

[lempour]

well, for me it's another library installed and loaded in the memory and breaking the UI consistence (I'm running gtk+ desktop).
I know that from the developers point of view the situation is totally different. Of course I respect the decision and amount of that was put into it - then I have to get prepared and find myself some decent Qt-GTK wrappers and themes. Still, for me I'd better see luxgui along the GTK+ line (as wxwidgets on linux wrap around the gtk+ libs)

[jeanphi]

Hi,

Ok, I see, we'll have to take that into account, as most users will face the same problem. We should really chack the size of the dependencies, requiring users to install hundreds of Mo to run Lux would indeed be bad. However Indigo uses Qt on Windows and the package is quite small.

Jeanphi

[jensverwiebe]

Hi Tomb

I did now initial cmake-adaption and build for OSX too:







Just to assure it works. I Rendered something , o.k. too.
Some sidenotes:

- compiling is a lot faster with QT-frameworks
- as you can see on 64bit OSX, now the first time we have coloured log ( wx is broken )
- app-size drops to less than the half ( 9 MB from 23 MB ) , but indeed you have to install QTCore, QTGui and QTOpenGL ( once )

Jens

[SATtva]

What minimum QT version is required?

[tomb]

ATM 4.5 - when and if this moves out of "experimental", I plan on using 4.6 features (which is in beta these days).

[SATtva]

Okay, thanks.