New Cross-Platform IDE and SDK makes Qt ideal for students and researchers
Knut Yrvin, Qt Community Manager, explains how the new Qt SDK helps students and researchers with their studies
Oslo - 3rd March 2009 - Qt Software recently released a brand new cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) – Qt Creator – and for the first time offers a complete Qt SDK. With these new additions, Qt has never been easier to start programming cross-platform rich GUI applications on Windows, Linux and Mac. Quickly install the Qt SDK onto your preferred platform, and the whole developer environment, including the Qt libaries, are ready for use.
Open for study, changes and peer review
Qt’s benefits extend beyond ease of cross-platform development; Qt is developed in accordance with scientific principles. Every part is open for study, changes, improvements and peer review. This is excellent for learning and science where no part is hidden or limited. Qt is free software and based on standard C++, which is standard on many operating systems. By using Qt, students are not locked to a single operating system, but can choose where to develop, deploy and use their application.
Because Qt runs natively, requring no virtual layer or resource hungry abstractions, Qt applications deliver excellent performance, even on resource-constrained systems such as mobile phones, netbooks and embedded devices. With the first release, Qt Creator will be best suited for development targeting desktop systems. Later this year, we will include support for cross-device development on mobile and embedded platforms.
Getting Started
Qt SDK packages – which contain both the Qt Creator IDE and the Qt libraries – are available for download from the Qt Software website. Qt Creator comes pre-loaded with full Qt documentation and example code, so new users can begin trying out their own Qt-based projects immediately.
For more information about Qt, Qt Creator and the Qt SDK, visit our Qt 4.5 feature overview.
