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Application Development with Qt Creator

You're reading from   Application Development with Qt Creator Build cross-platform applications and GUIs using Qt 5 and C++

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2020
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ISBN-13 9781789951752
Length 426 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Lee Zhi Eng Lee Zhi Eng
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Basics
2. Getting Started with Qt Creator FREE CHAPTER 3. Building Applications with Qt Creator 4. Designing Your Application with Qt Designer 5. Qt Foundations 6. Developing Applications with Qt Widgets 7. Section 2: Advanced Features
8. Drawing with Qt 9. Doing More with Qt Quick 10. Implementing Multimedia with Qt Quick 11. Sensors and Qt Quick 12. Section 3: Practical Matters
13. Localizing Your Application with Qt Linguist 14. Optimizing Performance with Qt Creator 15. Developing Mobile Applications with Qt Creator 16. Embedded and IoT Development with Qt Creator 17. Qt Tips and Tricks 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Configuring the coding style and coding format options

Readable code is crucial, and Qt Creator's default coding style is one that most people find very readable. However, you might be on a project with different coding guidelines, or you might just find that you can't bear a particular facet of how the Qt Creator editor deals with code formatting; maybe it's the positioning of the brackets or how a switch statement gets formatted. Fortunately, Qt Creator is extremely configurable. Go to Tools | Options... | C++ and configure how Qt Creator will format your code, as shown in the following screenshot:

The basic dialog lets you pick popular formatting styles, such as Qt's default format or the format used by most GNU code. You can also click on Edit..., which brings up the code style editor, which you can see in the next screenshot:

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