An announcement from the Qt# project . . .

We've been hard at work over the last several weeks and now we're finally ready to bring you the latest release of Qt#. Changes include:

• Preliminary support for Qt# on Microsoft.Net (manyoso)
• CreateDelegate and multiple custom slots (manyoso)
• Object tracking and determinstic destruction of unmanaged resources… (n1ko)
• Support for events and localized Event Handling (manyoso)
• A nice set of tutorials that guide the developer in the differences between Qt/C++ and Qt# (marcusU)
• Debianized packages of qtcsharp and libqtc (n1ko)
• Generated initial API docs courtesy of Portable.NET's documentation tools (manyoso)

Screenshots are now available here. You'll also find evidence of our true cross-platform intentions ;-) Support for the Sharp Zaurus and MacOSX should be forthcoming. We also have browsable documentation online and a tutorials package on our download page.

What is Qt# ?

Qt# — a cross-platform GUI toolkit for Mono and Portable.Net — is a set of classes that bind any CIL language to the Qt toolkit. The bindings are in alpha phase right now, but development is moving quickly.

Currently, the bindings consist of 476 Qt classes converted to C#. The classes compile and have been used in a few demos including one that displays its own source. The bindings depend upon the QtC bindings by Richard Dale. You can find QtC and Qt# in KDE's cvs repository. We are using the Mono project's compiler, runtime and class libraries to test and build Qt#, so you will be able to develop using completely free software. The Qt# library also sporadically works on the DotGNU Portable.NET CLR. We're currently working with the DotGNU folks to solve the problems on this platform

Qt# is free software, licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

 
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