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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

Understanding model and view

As mentioned before, Qt Quick applications are different from traditional Qt Widgets applications. You are going to write QML instead of C++ code. So, let's create a new project, a Qt Quick application named RSS_Reader. This time, we will use Qt Quick 2.3 as the component set. Since we won't use the widgets provided by Qt Quick Controls, we'll write our own widgets.

Before getting our hands dirty, let's sketch out what this application looks like. According to the following diagram, there will be two sections. The left-hand panel provides some categories so that users can choose interesting categories. The right-hand panel is the main area, which displays news under the current category. This is a typical RSS news reader's user interface.

Understanding model and view

We can implement the Categories panel by using ListView. This type (we say "type" instead of "class" in QML) is used to display data from all sorts of list models. So let's edit...

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