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framelesshelper | qwindowkit | |
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3 | 2 | |
826 | 300 | |
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9.2 | 9.5 | |
4 months ago | 2 days ago | |
C++ | C++ | |
MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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framelesshelper
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Overall, I love Qt. I started studying QML 2 weeks ago to implement a Kanban view based on the underlined Markdown styled todo items in the text editor, and it's been really great so far. Property bindings, signals & slots, integration with C++, it all makes so much sense, much more than other declarative languages/frameworks (looking at you, React) imo.
Qt has been around for years, the documentation is extensive and the community is large and supportive. With QML I faced many problems, especially half-assed examples/documentation, Qt Creator's intellisense doesn't work well with QML sometimes, etc... But the tradeoff is worth it. I'm getting things done in a much faster pace with QML.
A problem that is common both in Qt and other cross-platform frameworks is that you end up writing some custom code for each operating system to make the look and feel more native. But I think it's getting better with awesome open-source projects taking care of beautiful native window decorations[1].
[1] https://github.com/wangwenx190/framelesshelper
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QStyleHelper - (QML and Widgets) Change QStyle/QPalette easily Fluent/Mica /w W11 and detect dark/light system
Love what I see here. This could possibly work perfectly together with FramelessHelper (github.com/wangwenx190/framelesshelper) which I use in my own application.
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I re-released my screenshot application, it is now open source
I evaluated first because I wanted to achieve a true frameless window styling which is way harder to do in widgets than in QML. I stumbled upon FramelessHelper (https://github.com/wangwenx190/framelesshelper) then (which is also available for QML) and I started in widgets. It fully depends on what you like more. I am still not a fan of writing JavaScript for desktop applications (except extensions) and since I've started with Qt I always used Widgets. I just feel more home on this side.
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9 years of Apple text editor solo dev
You can use Rust with QML[1].
QML is actually pretty amazing. I've been building my block editor[2] view entirely in QML while the model is in C++. This separation of logic and presentation works great. And yes, there are some crashes sometimes (that I find quite easy to debug thanks to the built-in debugger), but take for example a similar app that's built with Rust and Dart[3], in my testing there were still memory leaks that caused my computer to hang. It's better to know you have a bug than for it to be hidden from you.
I agree with parent commenter, saying these cross-platform frameworks will end up supporting the least common denominator set of features. But I found with external open source libraries, the community is catching up very fast. For example, you want the awesome translucency macOS apps have for your Qt app? Here you go[4]. Many such cases. It's also pretty straightforward to add your own custom OS-dependent code, especially so, if someone already open sourced his approach. I recently wanted to move the traffic light buttons on macOS for my app, but couldn't figure the Objective-C code for that. I ended up looking at either Tauri or Electron source code and found my answer.
[1] https://github.com/woboq/qmetaobject-rs
[2] https://www.get-plume.com/
[3] https://www.appflowy.io/
[4] https://github.com/stdware/qwindowkit
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