Considering Qt for WinCE
Hi all,
I am considering to learn and use Qt to develop a navigation software for WinCE 6. However i’m worried if I will be able to do the following things in Qt
1. I need to connect to WinCe comm port
2. I need to make use of custom fonts
3. Does Qt have it’s own 2d rendering engine or it wraps gdi? I want antialiasing.
Can anyone tell me how to do that in Qt.
Thanks
5 replies
> 1. I need to connect to WinCe comm port
There is no direct support in Qt for doing this. But no big problem, you’d just have to write some C / C++ code calling whatever Microsoft provides for communicating with the ports.
> 2. I need to make use of custom fonts
I’d just try and install the font on the device, then run the example spesified here http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.6/qfontdatabase.html#details to get the list of all the fonts it finds to see if Qt picks it up.
Or you could try and just load it directly: http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.6/qfontdatabase.html#addApplicationFont – I’m not sure if it works for WinCE though :)
> 3. Does Qt have it’s own 2d rendering engine or it wraps gdi? I want antialiasing.
Yes, Qt has it’s own rendering engine. It doesn’t use GDI for anything but blit – so yeah, you get antialiasing.
Good luck :)
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