[Fwd: New Qt 2.0]

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Due to the talk about GUI development tools at recent meetings,
I'm forwarding this email I received to the list for everyone:

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: New Qt 2.0
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 13:36:33 +0000
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To: Bruce Smith <bruce@armintl.com>

July 7, 1999



OSLO, Norway--(BUSINESS WIRE) via NewsEdge
Corporation -- Troll Tech (www.troll-tech.com) is proud to
announce the release of version 2 of Qt, the multi-platform
C++ Graphical User Interface framework. This major new
version introduces a wide range of powerful features, including
support for application internationalization, formatted document
display, custom look and feel (themes), and Unicode for
non-european alphabets. 

The Qt library provides application developers with the full
functionality required to make state-of-the-art GUI
applications for Unix/X11 and Microsoft Windows. Qt provides
a fully object-oriented, cross-platform alternative to the
Motif/Xt and Microsoft Foundation Classes libraries. Qt thus
gives C++ developers the portability benefits of Java, without
Java's performance penalty. 

"This release is the result of nearly a year of development effort
extending and improving the highly popular Qt 1.4 product,"
said Haavard Nord, CEO of Troll Tech. "When we started
releasing development snapshots of Qt 2.0 in January, many
KDE developers and other free software programmers started
using it. This created a very productive bazaar-like development
environment, which provided invaluable feedback for our
development team." 

Qt 2.0 introduces more than 40 new classes in the Qt API
(Application Programmers Interface). In addition, Qt 2.0 adds a
wide range of improvements and functionality enhancements.
Full details are available at www.troll-tech.com/changes/. 

Qt 2.0 retains a high degree of source code compatibility with
the Qt 1.x series, so applications based on earlier Qt versions
can be ported to Qt 2.0 with little effort. A detailed porting
guide is included in the Qt reference documentation. 

Troll Tech enables their customers to rapidly develop efficient,
maintainable, commercial-grade software by providing software
components, development tools, as well as technical support,
contract and consulting services. Troll Tech's flagship product
Qt is a cross-platform C++ user interface framework. It
provides application developers with all the functionality needed
to build state-of-the-art graphical user interfaces. Qt is fully
object-oriented, easily extensible, and allows true component
programming. It is supported on Windows 95/98/NT, Linux, Sun
Solaris, HP-UX, Digital Unix, IBM AIX, SGI IRIX and a wide
range of other platforms. Since the commercial introduction of
Qt in early 1996, Qt is used worldwide as the basis of many
hundreds of successful applications. Qt is also the basis of the
popular KDE Linux desktop environment, included in all major
Linux distributions. Troll Tech AS is located in Oslo, Norway. Qt
is a trademark of Troll Tech AS. 

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