Hi,

What would be the appropriate newsgroup to discuss using qt5?

Thanks in advance,

Josef

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On 5/30/2026 11:34 PM, Josef M”llers wrote:

Hi,

What would be the appropriate newsgroup to discuss using qt5?

A good question for A.I.? :)

qt5 vs mingw - Google ?? <https://www.google.com/search?channel=entpr&q=qt5+vs+mingw>

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On 30.05.26 17:56, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 5/30/2026 11:34 PM, Josef M”llers wrote:

Hi,

What would be the appropriate newsgroup to discuss using qt5?

A good question for A.I.? :)

qt5 vs mingw - Google ?? <https://www.google.com/search?channel=entpr&q=qt5+vs+mingw>

Thanks for the pointer, but I do not use Windows.

I have now posted a question on the qt forum.

Thanks anyway,

Josef

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Josef M”llers writes:

On 30.05.26 17:56, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 5/30/2026 11:34 PM, Josef M”llers wrote:

Hi,

What would be the appropriate newsgroup to discuss using qt5?

A good question for A.I.? :)

qt5 vs mingw - Google ??
<https://www.google.com/search?channel=entpr&q=qt5+vs+mingw>

Thanks for the pointer, but I do not use Windows.

I have now posted a question on the qt forum.

Thanks anyway,

Sadly, Usenet died before Qt became a thing.


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On 31.05.26 03:55, Sam wrote:

Josef M”llers writes:

On 30.05.26 17:56, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 5/30/2026 11:34 PM, Josef M”llers wrote:

Hi,

What would be the appropriate newsgroup to discuss using qt5?

A good question for A.I.? :)

qt5 vs mingw - Google ??
<https://www.google.com/search?channel=entpr&q=qt5+vs+mingw>

Thanks for the pointer, but I do not use Windows.

I have now posted a question on the qt forum.

Thanks anyway,

Sadly, Usenet died before Qt became a thing.

Sad, but true.

Have a good weekend,

Josef

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On 5/31/2026 12:01 AM, Josef M”llers wrote:

Thanks for the pointer, but I do not use Windows.

You can always use names of tools you don't use as a stepping stone in
Google Searh to find information related to the tools you are using.
Windows do have a lot of desktop users and hence a good point of reference.

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On 2026-05-31 06:24, Stefan Ram wrote:

=?UTF-8?Q?Josef_M=C3=B6llers?= <josef@invalid.invalid> wrote or quoted:

What would be the appropriate newsgroup to discuss using qt5?

There should be a newsgroup "comp.soft-sys.qt" or
"comp.soft-sys.misc". But since these do not exist and
people here in comp.lang.c++ want to keep discussions to
the language proper, the best choice might be the group for
discussing programming under the operating system used.

Not everything has to be on usenet. The best place to go to discuss QT
is <https://forum.qt.io/>.

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On 31.05.26 16:07, James Kuyper wrote:

On 2026-05-31 06:24, Stefan Ram wrote:

=?UTF-8?Q?Josef_M=C3=B6llers?= <josef@invalid.invalid> wrote or quoted:

What would be the appropriate newsgroup to discuss using qt5?

There should be a newsgroup "comp.soft-sys.qt" or
"comp.soft-sys.misc". But since these do not exist and
people here in comp.lang.c++ want to keep discussions to
the language proper, the best choice might be the group for
discussing programming under the operating system used.

Not everything has to be on usenet. The best place to go to discuss QT
is <https://forum.qt.io/>.

Which is exactly where I went and a kind JonB provided me with a pointer
to QMainWindow and its structure with Menu Bar, Central Widget, and
Status Bar. As it turned out, I already had been using a QMainWidget,
albeit incorrectly, so to solve my specific problem, I just

QMainWindow *w = new QMainWindow;
QMenuBar *menuBar = w->menuBar();
// ... populate Menu Bar

setCentralWidget(new QWidget);

Canvas *Drawingarea = new Canvas(w->centralWidget()); Drawingarea->setGeometry(0, 0, 1000, 500);

where "Canvas" is a QWidget with a paintEvent().

Thanks for any help and/or useful suggestions.

Josef

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On 5/31/2026 6:24 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:

=?UTF-8?Q?Josef_M=C3=B6llers?= <josef@invalid.invalid> wrote or quoted:

What would be the appropriate newsgroup to discuss using qt5?

There should be a newsgroup "comp.soft-sys.qt" or
"comp.soft-sys.misc". But since these do not....

I think comp.graphics might be a better starting node. But that branch
is more about image manipulation than programming.

How about comp.games? To write games, you need something like QT and
MingW. You need to understand GUI.

In the end, we naturally come back down to comp.lang !! :)

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W dniu 30.05.2026 oÿ18:01, Josef M”llers pisze:

I have now posted a question on the qt forum.

I just delete my Qt forum account few days ago. Why? I discovered
(ChatGPT told me), that askubunut.com account cost $6.5/month per user,
so I realize that the same must be true for Qt forum. I want to avoid
"secret debt". My in my signature, the last link cover this problem (but currently only in Polish).

So: Ask here about Qt5, if you want to avoid "secret debt".
NOTE: In order to speed-up my coding, recently I subscribe ChatGPT, and
it is really helpful.

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Jacek Marcin Jaworski <jmj@energokod.gda.pl> writes:

W dniu 30.05.2026 oÿ18:01, Josef M”llers pisze:

I have now posted a question on the qt forum.

I just delete my Qt forum account few days ago. Why? I discovered
(ChatGPT told me), that askubunut.com account cost $6.5/month per
user, so I realize that the same must be true for Qt forum. I want to
avoid "secret debt". My in my signature, the last link cover this
problem (but currently only in Polish).

I presume you mean "askubuntu.com". It's part of the Stack Exchange
network, and it's free to users. The Qt forum is unrelated to
askubuntu.com, but it's also free to users, as most online forums
are. There is no "secret debt". There's no way they could charge
you if you didn't give them a credit card or equivalent.

Presumably the owners of both sites have to spend money to keep
them up and running, but the fact that they haven't been shut down
suggests they don't have a problem with it. I don't know what you
think you'd accomplish by deleting your accounts. I don't know
what ChatGPT told you, but it was likely nonsense.

So: Ask here about Qt5, if you want to avoid "secret debt".
NOTE: In order to speed-up my coding, recently I subscribe ChatGPT,
and it is really helpful.

Perhaps, but be careful about trusting anything it tells you.
See above. So-called AI systems tend to be optimized for clarity
and plausibility over accuracy. They don't actually "know" anything.

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