How to open another application inside a Qt GUI

[thescouse]

So, if the other computer has google earth installed, it would work alright?
Even if it has Ubuntu installed? Or any other OS for that matter?

[sierdzio]

QAX* set of classes == Qt ActiveX. It works only on Windows. But even there it is not guaranteed to "just work". You need to test yourself ;)

Maybe Google provides some cross-platform library solution that would work on all platforms, I don't know. That is why I have recommended taking a look at Marble: it's Qt-based, powerful and cross-platform.

[thescouse]

I checked Marble, but the job requires to be done on google earth.
So, I have to find a solution for that only. And since most probably the app has to work in Ubuntu, I can't go for QAx... :/

[thescouse]

But thanks for your help... :)

[sierdzio]

You are welcome.

There seems to be a JS API for Google Earth: "link":https://developers.google.com/earth/.

[thescouse]

Thanks again.. ;)

[tackat]

Just out of curiosity: Is there any particular technical reason why you can not use Marble? :) Is there any requirement that we - the Marble authors - could provide/implement for you on the Marble side?

[thescouse]

@tackat
sorry for this late reply..but it was the requirement of the task to do it on google earth specifically :)
so, I can't implement it on Marble.

[tackat]

Thanks for the reply! :)

[thescouse]

In the end I had to ditch Qt for this task.. :) the answer was serial library.. :P