Hi AdderD,

re: Viewer - yeah that is something that a variety of MoI users could be interested in as well, so it would be cool if you could mention your progress on this forum as well if you remember! :)


> I think that a lot of what is going on in MoI's GUI *could*
> be done in QT but at a greater (and maybe much greater)
> development cost.

Certainly it is possible, but my best guess would be that it leans quite a bit towards the "much greater" side...

Also, maybe you're not aware of this but I'm the only developer working on MoI, so it is important for me to try and leverage already existing stuff when it is possible to do so.

Otherwise I would end up spending all my time working on the engine stuff and not on actually designing the UI. Leveraging an HTML engine gives me a significant amount of text and layout handling power along with it, which meets my particular needs better.


> QT now (I think it's new in 4.3 or 4.5) supports a forms
> based layout that might be closer to what you need it to do

I've taken a very brief look at that (that's the Qt Designer stuff you are referring to?), but it seems to be oriented more towards making kind of traditional dialog box windows as far as I can tell.

And don't get me wrong, it certainly looks like there is a lot of functionality and useful stuff in Qt as well, for a lot of projects I'm sure that it would be a great choice just using its normal stuff. I happen to have a pretty different UI than what is typically done though so it tends to be harder for me to benefit from a prepackaged toolkit to the same degree.


> And, for what it's worth, I think MoI looks pretty sweet!
> Keep up that good work.

Thanks!

- Michael