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Mastering Qt 5

You're reading from   Mastering Qt 5 Create stunning cross-platform applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786467126
Length 526 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Robin Penea Robin Penea
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Get Your Qt Feet Wet FREE CHAPTER 2. Discovering QMake Secrets 3. Dividing Your Project and Ruling Your Code 4. Conquering the Desktop UI 5. Dominating the Mobile UI 6. Even Qt Deserves a Slice of Raspberry Pi 7. Third-Party Libraries Without a Headache 8. Animations - Its Alive, Alive! 9. Keeping Your Sanity with Multithreading 10. Need IPC? Get Your Minions to Work 11. Having Fun with Serialization 12. You Shall (Not) Pass with QTest 13. All Packed and Ready to Deploy 14. Qt Hat Tips and Tricks

Displaying a picture with PictureWidget


This widget will be called to display a picture at its full size. We also add some buttons to go to the previous/next picture or delete the current one.

Let's start to analyze the PictureWidget.ui form, here is the design view:

Here are the details:

  • backButton: This object requests to display the gallery

  • deleteButton: This object removes the picture from the album

  • nameLabel: This object displays the picture name

  • nextButton: This object selects the next picture in the album

  • previousButton: This object selects the previous picture in the album

  • pictureLabel: This object displays the picture

We can now take a look at the header PictureWidget.h:

#include <QWidget> 
#include <QItemSelection> 
 
namespace Ui { 
class PictureWidget; 
} 
 
class PictureModel; 
class QItemSelectionModel; 
class ThumbnailProxyModel; 
 
class PictureWidget : public QWidget 
{ 
    Q_OBJECT 
 
public: 
    explicit PictureWidget(QWidget *parent = 0); 
    ~PictureWidget(); 
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