Just seems like we are splitting hairs on what general means. I'm just interested if anyone uses Qt in this fashion, and if they do how? It seems like Qt would be perfect for such a task. There are other ways to use VISA, but I'm not interested in those.
When I refer to techno babble, I"m referring to what some people call the mathematician's answer. Technically correct but otherwise worthless. Microsoft has lots of documentation like that. (not saying they are the only ones) Their best practices for security on older system, is useless information but its still correct.
I think I might ask this question a different way in the C++ gurus programming. Since you are right you don't need Qt to use the libraries, but I'm not for sure what other free tools are out there. I don't like wxWidgets, tutorials are a pain to use.