What choices do I have for tools to use, and what pro's/con's are attached to them. From what i've read so far qt seems like it might be a good choice, aside from the high entry barrier of learning how to do everything the qt way.

I'm looking for information on any of the above.

Hey,

I've put some of my sample programs / tiny little programs up on the net:
http://harryhaaren.blogspot.com/

There's nothing too complicated, as im still learning threading and advanced GUI / Worker stuff myself.

If your using JACK then it takes care of some of the RT stuff for you... :-)

-Harry