qt/wxwidgets third party components?

Question

I'm used to working in a Delphi and C# environment which seem to have a rich set of third party components available. I'm currently wanting to do cross-platform programming in C++ using either qt or wxwidgets. Is there a large market for third party components? I was looking at sourceforge and that doesn't seem to show much that is useful (how the hell do you find out what components or features are in a project without downloading the source?). I'm thinking carousel/coverflow components, rich datagrids (like the sort DevExpress provide). Or is this, write your own territory?

Answer 1

There are a number of good quality third party Qt libraries, though I don't know of a centralized resource for finding them.

A few places to start looking:

• http://www.ics.com/products/qt/addons

  ICS provides the QicsTable, a high performance model-view-delegate table library, and resells various libraries by KDAB. (These are all available as a free download.)

• http://www.qtcentre.org/contest-first-edition/finalists

  QtCentre has an annual programming contest which awards interesting Qt-based tools and libraries. This year's contest is still being judged, but the finalists from last year can be seen at the above link. Check out the Custom Widget and Helper Library categories.