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Qt for Mac

Qt is a comprehensive application framework for developing Mac® applications that can also be deployed across many other desktop and embedded operating systems without rewriting the source code.

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Qt supports the following Mac platforms:

  • Mac OS X 10.3 (32-bit)
  • Mac OS X 10.4 (32-bit)
  • Mac OS X 10.5 (32-bit)

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Qt supports the following platforms:
Embedded Linux
Mac OS
Windows
Linux/X11
Windows CE

Key Features for Mac Development

Integrated Development Tools

Qt includes a set of integrated development tools to speed development on the Mac platform.

Screenshot - Qt Designer: Mac

 

 

 

The Qt Designer drag and drop visual GUI builder.
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Qt Development tools include:

 

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Rich Class Library

The Qt class library includes all the functionality needed to build advanced GUI applications.

  • Complete set of customizable UI controls/widgets
  • Native Aqua look and feel, with Aqua-style widgets
  • 3D graphics support with OpenGL integration
  • Powerful multi-threading features
  • 2D graphics canvas capable of handling millions of items
  • Integrated Phonon multimedia framework
  • WebKit integration
  • Networking, XML and databse functionality
  • ECMA standard scripting engine

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Supports Intel Hardware and Universal Binaries

 
Logo - Mac Universal BinariesQt is written without making assumptions about the number representation, endianness or architecture of the underlying processor. To support Intel hardware on the Apple platforms, Qt customers simply need to recompile their apps.

 

 

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