Why should I use KWWidgets instead of Qt, MFC or wxWidgets?
It comes down to a few basic issues including widget set features, the license, documentation, and supporting tools. Qt, MFC and wxWidgets are arguably well featured; they have been in development for years and they already have a large user-base. While Qt still requires a commercial license for proprietary software, KWWidgets adopts a much less restrictive BSD-style license with no such limitations. Most toolkits provide more or less the same core widget set. KWWidgets, on the other hand, is targeted at scientific and medical visualization. While it provides both core widgets as well as advanced composite widgets, KWWidgets provides sophisticated interface to the visualization library VTK, offering high-level 2D and 3D visualization-oriented widgets such as surface material editors, simple animation generators, transfer function editors, annotation editors, window/level and volume property preset editors, text property editors, 2D and 3D rendering widgets, etc. To create these high-le
