After working extensively with Microsoft development tools, I migrated to ubuntu and QT for research purposes.
QT is a great framework, up to now there’s nothing I needed and it’s not there.
However the tools-ecosystem around QT is a bit behind microsoft’s ecosystem (V.Studio, Expression Suite)
More specifically, QT Creator is quite nice, but the lack of a ‘standard’ tool like MS-Blend (which I think is a must, complementary to V.Studio) or the various Adobe tools is pretty apparent, in the case of developing fancy interfaces, animations etc. And Animations (e.g. menu’s apperaing/disapperaing from the side) are a bit painful to hardcode without a ‘graphical’-tool.
Do you have any tool to propose for this reason, that I’m not aware of?
PS – Just to avoid misunderstandings, I know about qml/Qt_Quick/qdesigner/qt_Animation – http://doc.qt.digia.com/qt/animation-overview.html. I’m referring to accombining software that make’s life easier and reduces time needed for hardcoding stuff
Direct answer:
No there is no tool available in Qt arena that matches the capabilities of Microsoft Blend.
There is this question, which discusses a similar situation; a comparison between .NET and Qt in terms of UI designing.