[mythtv-users] Fwd: [directfb-users] Announcement: Qt for DirectFB

[Mike Gibson]

This is interesting for those of us trying to get MythTV working on a
framebuffer without X.  It's qtopia (which is Qt 4), and MythTV uses
Qt 3, but interesting nonetheless.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mike Gibson <megibson at gmail.com>
Date: May 25, 2007 8:26 AM
Subject: Re: [directfb-users] Announcement: Qt for DirectFB
To: haavardw at ifi.uio.no
Cc: directfb-dev at directfb.org, directfb-users at directfb.org


On 5/25/07, Håvard Wall <haavardw at ifi.uio.no> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> just wanted you to know that I've published a DirectFB driver for Qtopia Core
> (Qt for embedded Linux) at
> http://labs.trolltech.com/page/Projects/Qtopia/DirectFB
>
> This means you should be able to write GUI applications using the Qt classes,
> designing widgets using the Designer, loose coupling between objects using
> signals and slots and all the other features of Qt, while using the power of
> DirectFB to do hardware acceleration.


Sweet!  Wow.  This is something I sorta kinda started a while ago but
haven't been able to do much with, see qte-directfb on directfb.org.
However, I was using Qt 3 because I want to run MythTV (Qt 3 app) via
DirectFB.  What do you think the difficulty would be in backporting
this to Qt 3?  Not that I'm asking you to do it, I am curious as to
your professional opinion.

> Hope it will be of use to somebody other than myself -)

If not now, then certainly when MythTV is ported to Qt 4.  But I
imagine that all the embedded folks with DirectFB layers will very
much appreciate it.  It seems to me that lots of the traffic on the
directfb lists are folks interested in DirectFB because of the
availabe GTK layer.

Mike Gibson