Yet another GUI toolkit question...

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk
Mon Feb 13 05:04:21 EST 2006


On Monday 13 February 2006 12:33 am, John J. Lee wrote:
> Kevin Walzer <sw at wordtech-software.com> writes:
> [...]
>
> > Commercial Qt is a little out of my price range.
>
> Commercial *PyQt* (including a license for Qt for use only with PyQt)
> is $400 (USD) per developer (plus an extra $300/year if you want
> upgrades).  That's compared to Qt license for use *with C++* varying
> from $1690 to $6260.  So PyQt is 4-15 times cheaper than old-fashioned
> C++ Qt!
>
> http://www.thekompany.com/products/blackadder/
>
>
> Apparently you get mxODBC in that price, too.  And the Blackadder
> development environment itself, of course, though personally I
> wouldn't use it.
>
> PyQt 4 now seems to exist, though not as a stable release yet, so I
> imagine it'll be a bit longer untill there's a release of Blackadder
> that supports Qt 4.  I recall the PyQt 2 --> PyQt 3 upgrade as being
> fairly painless (in terms of code changes), though.

There will never be a release of Blackadder that supports PyQt4.

Phil



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