Qt vs. WxWidgets in 2013

[Skywalker42]

I have been reading up on these frameworks and they both seem very impressive and popular but
all the opinions I could get comparing them are 2 years and older.

Have anyone here used both recently and have an informed opinion ?

I plan to use the "best one" as a framework for cross platform development in C++;

If you use either one, what do you consider it's strong points, compared to the other ?

WxWidgets is open source and free for commercial use, but what's the latest with Qt ?

Thanks.

 

[_kabal_]

Qt seems pretty widely supported. Blackberry 10 cascades is built on qt.

Haven't used either though

 

[frodob]

Have you considered JUCE at all? I used it extensively a few years back, and it's an absolute pleasure to use. The support on the forums is also top notch.

For commercial applications, you'll have to purchase a license, but it's worth it. The details are on the web page.

 

[realbigdreamer]

I would definitely recommend Qt. The documentation is great and it is very easy to learn. The libraries are really powerful and you can now also port your Qt project to Android with ease.

Something I did using Qt a few weeks ago:

http://gabrielvisagie.blogspot.com/p/the-outcasts-cyber-tale.html

 

[noxibox]

WxWidgets is open source and free for commercial use, but what's the latest with Qt ?

These days it has an LGPL option, and it comes with source code.

 

[mydoghasworms]

Only saw this now because I was looking at information on exactly the same thing. I saw a very good opinion on StackOverflow, where opinions are not allowed , and what the answerer said is pretty much that wxWidgets is really only a GUI framework, whereas Qt has all sorts of other libraries for pretty much everything you could want to do in an app (e.g. database integration, networking and loads, loads more).

See here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/19355534/274354

Here is also a good dissection: http://stackoverflow.com/a/2889385/274354

 

[shauntir]

+1 for Qt. Used it back in 2008 as out third year C++ advanced programming.

WxWidgets is mostly GUI. Qt is a huge library set and wraps a lot of the standard C++ constructs from stl. If that is what you like...