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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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Guillaume Lazar Guillaume Lazar
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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

Chapter 3.  Dividing Your Project and Ruling Your Code

The last chapter delved into qmake to study what lies beneath the signal/slot system and covered a reasonable approach to implementing platform-specific code. This chapter wants to show you how a project can be properly divided to enjoy the maximum leverage from the Qt framework.

To do this, you will create a gallery application that handles albums and pictures. You will be able to create, read, update and delete any album and display the pictures in a grid of thumbnails or in full resolution. Everything will be persisted in a SQL database.

This chapter lays the foundations of the gallery by creating a core library that will be used in the following two chapters: Chapter 4Conquering the Desktop UI, and Chapter 5Dominating the Mobile UI.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Application/library project separation
  • Database interaction with Qt
  • Smart pointers with C++14
  • Model/View architecture in Qt with an implementation...
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