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QT5 Blueprints

You're reading from   QT5 Blueprints Design, build, and deploy cross-platform GUI projects using the amazingly powerful Qt 5 framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784394615
Length 272 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Symeon Huang Symeon Huang
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Creating Your First Qt Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a Beautiful Cross-platform Clock 3. Cooking an RSS Reader with Qt Quick 4. Controlling Camera and Taking Photos 5. Extending Paint Applications with Plugins 6. Getting Wired and Managing Downloads 7. Parsing JSON and XML Documents to Use Online APIs 8. Enabling Your Qt Application to Support Other Languages 9. Deploying Applications on Other Devices 10. Don't Panic When You Encounter These Issues Index

Merging plugins and main program projects


It is a tedious thing that opens several projects and builds them in order. This is not a big deal given that we have just two plugins and a main program. However, it'll become a serious inefficiency issue once the number of plugins increase. Therefore, it is a better practice to merge the plugins into the main project and get them built in a specified order every time we click on the Build button. It's totally feasible and is commonly seen in Qt projects.

Firstly, we move all the files in the painter_demo directory, except for the EllipsePlugin and TextPlugin folders, into a newly created main folder.

Then, rename the painter_demo.pro to main.pro in the main folder while creating a new painter_demo.pro project file outside in the painter_demo directory. This new painter_demo.pro project file needs to have contents as shown in the following code:

TEMPLATE  = subdirs
CONFIG   += ordered
SUBDIRS   = TextPlugin \
            EllipsePlugin \
          ...
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