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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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