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NiLuJe · 03-31-2023, 02:14 AM

But to answer the actual question, @elinkser was pretty spot on.

Qt can "work", but it isn't for the faint of heart (like, at all), and the QPA you'll have to go through (the one used by UMR) currently has, to various degrees, compatibility issues with a fair amount of boards (for good reason: doing this right is a massive PITA, especially when you don't have access to most of the devices); so if that's a concern to you, I'd keep to Plato & KOReader, *especially* if you're just looking at code to see how stuff works.

(I... wouldn't necessarily recommend looking at FBInk's code without first a basic understanding how how "interestingly" weird this shit can be ;p. But you'll certainly get to experience my numerous rants about that across the comments if you do ;p).

03-31-2023, 02:14 AM	#5
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	But to answer the actual question, @elinkser was pretty spot on. Qt can "work", but it isn't for the faint of heart (like, at all), and the QPA you'll have to go through (the one used by UMR) currently has, to various degrees, compatibility issues with a fair amount of boards (for good reason: doing this right is a massive PITA, especially when you don't have access to most of the devices); so if that's a concern to you, I'd keep to Plato & KOReader, especially if you're just looking at code to see how stuff works. (I... wouldn't necessarily recommend looking at FBInk's code without first a basic understanding how how "interestingly" weird this shit can be ;p. But you'll certainly get to experience my numerous rants about that across the comments if you do ;p). Last edited by NiLuJe; 03-31-2023 at 02:17 AM.