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@mrjj It was a widget that showed a diagonal line like y=x, and you could click on it and modify it into a different curve. It is driving me crazy. It is of course possible that I'm remembering it wrong and it is/was not part of the examples supplied with Qt. If I find it, I'll let you know.

@kshegunov said in What should we learn from the code of examples that shipped with QT:

SGaist said in What should we learn from the code of examples that shipped with QT:

That grumpy old programmer you mentioned just did a good job of ruining project maintainability with that philosophy...

Not necessarily. One could extend the argument that if something's hard to read, it shouldn't be there to begin with. Meaning that if something reads as forced, overengineered, artifical etc. it should be rewritten in an "easier" way (thus easier to be read). Which would simply lead to you reinventing most of the "good coding habits". ;)

Fair point I agree with but there's too many should for it to happen easily ;-)

What you indicate is true and has already been widely indicated by the company through the official blog:

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6-build-system https://www.qt.io/blog/versionless-cmake-targets-qt-5.15 https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-roadmap-for-2020

@macfanpl So what do you use for development? Has your project hit 500KLOC yet? How many customers running your app?

Qt is pretty darn slick. If Microsoft's Win32 API had been composed like Qt, they would have conquered the world. The depth and completeness of Qt makes it a robust workhorse. I converted from "Petzold-style" Win32 recently. I transitioned from 32- to 64-bit without batting an eyelash. I'm confident I'll fly by Apple's ARM switch, while my competitors flounder.

Do you understand that there are software companies that develop exclusively for Windows, and they still use Qt because of the productivity?

I have this image in my head of a game show called: Real Time Programming!
People face off and run interpreters to solve problems.
A = announcer
A: Bob makes a bold move in Python. Shorter code yes, but execution speed may be a detriment.
A: Nancy chooses a classic, C++. She is a template wizard from Kentucky.
...
A: The competition is getting intense. Bob is writing list comprehensions like a maniac.
A: Unbelievable, Nancy has just written a recursive template. We have never seen this in a competition before! Truly an amazing feat!
A: Bobs code is struggling, but that move to "push to the internals" has really payed off.
A: It looks like however that it is all over. Nancy's template wizardry has payed off BIG!

@mzimmers said in I have, like, another English question:

As we were leaving, he said "nice meetin' ya," and I thought "hey! English!"

That's one of the things I love in English and German - the amount of different dialects is just amazing! In Poland, "thanks" to communism we all speak in the same way, with only a few minor dialects around.

@koahnig said in Referring to other people in posts here:

Oh, yes. In proper formal German she can.

I was sarcastic with a pinch of mockery for physicists/chemists (as I myself am in that former category). ;)

The politeness of lovable Russian culture is epic. :)

Think more to the south with less timezones. ;)

Wondering what other rules would kick in from other parts of the world.

As far as I can tell germanic, romance and slavic languages use mostly the second person plural for formal speech. It's clumsy nonetheless, I stand by my original claim.

I was thinking about private users.

If you want to build an application to chat with your employees or friends. you have all private Internet access with dynamic IP assignment with Certificates.

How assign Certificates to them?

Qt Creator entered digital age and now you don't need the quill pen to write code :)

@mrjj well,

I‘m only assuming here, as I haven‘t found any details yet.

It has a Visual Studio Solution file, and it runs on modern Win pcs, so MSVC2017 /19 ?

Isn’t stuff like this described in the sln file ?

@fcarney heh -- sorry; I guess I should have brought this to closure.

I got an Intel i5-9600K, an Asus ROG board (similar to what I have at work) and 32GB of memory. Builds are MUCH faster. I think I built a static Qt library in about 75 minutes -- not sure exactly, but much, much faster than before. Having 6 cores definitely makes a big difference.

It's back online since today