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Cross-Platform Development with Qt 6 and Modern C++

You're reading from   Cross-Platform Development with Qt 6 and Modern C++ Design and build applications with modern graphical user interfaces without worrying about platform dependency

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800204584
Length 442 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Basics
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Qt 6 FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Introduction to Qt Creator 4. Chapter 3: GUI Design Using Qt Widgets 5. Chapter 4: Qt Quick and QML 6. Section 2: Cross-Platform Development
7. Chapter 5: Cross-Platform Development 8. Section 3: Advanced Programming, Debugging, and Deployment
9. Chapter 6: Signals and Slots 10. Chapter 7: Model View Programming 11. Chapter 8: Graphics and Animations 12. Chapter 9: Testing and Debugging 13. Chapter 10: Deploying Qt Applications 14. Chapter 11: Internationalization 15. Chapter 12: Performance Considerations 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Porting from Qt 5 into Qt 6

Qt 6 is a major change to the Qt framework, therefore it breaks some of the backward compatibility. So, before upgrading to Qt 6, make sure that your Qt 5 application is updated to Qt 5.15. Porting will be easier from Qt 5.15 to Qt 6, with the fewest number of changes. However, APIs marked as deprecated or obsolete in Qt 5.15 may have been removed from Qt 6.0.

The CMake APIs in Qt 5 and Qt 6 are almost identical in terms of semantics. As a result, Qt 5.15 introduced versionless targets and commands, allowing CMake code to be written that is completely independent of Qt versions. Versionless imported targets are most useful for projects that require both Qt 5 and Qt 6 compilation. It is not recommended to use them by default because of the missing target properties. You can read more on this at the following link: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/cmake-qt5-and-qt6-compatibility.html.

Some of the classes and modules have been removed in Qt 6, but these are kept...

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