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You're reading from Qt5 C++ GUI Programming Cookbook Practical recipes for building cross-platform GUI applications, widgets, and animations with Qt 5

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789803822

Length 428 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Concepts

GUI Application Development

Authors (2):

Lee Z Eng

Lee Zhi Eng

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Look-and-Feel Customization with Qt Designer FREE CHAPTER

2. Event Handling - Signals and Slots

3. States and Animations with Qt and QML

4. QPainter and 2D Graphics

5. OpenGL Implementation

6. Using Network and Managing Large Documents

7. Threading Basics - Asynchronous Programming

8. Building a Touch Screen Application with Qt5

9. XML Parsing Made Easy

10. Conversion Library

11. Accessing Databases with SQL Driver and Qt

12. Develop Web Applications using Qt WebEngine

13. Performance Optimization

14. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Introduction

Most modern software runs its processes in parallel and offloads tasks to different threads to take advantage of modern CPU multicore architecture. In this way, software can be more efficient by running multiple processes simultaneously without affecting performance. In this chapter, we will learn how to make use of threads to boost our Qt 5 application's performance and efficiency.

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Authors (1)

Lee Zhi Eng

Lee Zhi Eng is a self-taught programmer who worked as an artist and programmer at several game studios before becoming a part-time lecturer for 2 years at a university, teaching game development subjects related to Unity and Unreal Engine. He has not only taken part in various projects related to games, interactive apps, and virtual reality but has also participated in multiple projects that are more oriented toward software and system development. When he is not writing code, he enjoys traveling, photography, and exploring new technologies.

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