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1. Introduction
QtEZ is a GUI application builder which utilizes the Qt Toolkit. It can
also be used to create applications utilizing the KDE libraries and widgets.
QtEZ allows a programmer to create an application using visual techniques,
run the application from within QtEZ for testing purposes, and then dump
the project to Source Code (C++, complete with Makefile) for distribution
or further programming. While the original author, Sam Magnuson claims
that this was not the original idea, that is what QtEZ has become.
1.1 Changes
QtEZ was started by Sam Magnuson and actively developed by him through
version 0.77a. His versions utilized the 1.x versions of the Qt toolkit.
After he ceased active development in August of 1998, various additions
were made by a few others on a widely scattered and uncordinated ad hoc
basis. In early 1999 Jan Prokop started to actively release revisions based
on Sam's original work. Not content to merely add widgets, Jan redesigned
several major components and gave QtEZ a decidedly more modern look. One
of the many additions made during this time was the adaptation of
FINE v2.1 by Bojan Kverh as a source viewer and editor within QtEZ.
In late summer of 1999 QtEZ was ported to use Qt version 2.x, which
was released under a more open source friendly license than earlier versions.
The versions written to be used with Qt version 2.x and above are labeled
version 0.82 and above.
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