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Application Development with Qt Creator

You're reading from   Application Development with Qt Creator Build cross-platform applications and GUIs using Qt 5 and C++

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2020
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ISBN-13 9781789951752
Length 426 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Lee Zhi Eng Lee Zhi Eng
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Basics
2. Getting Started with Qt Creator FREE CHAPTER 3. Building Applications with Qt Creator 4. Designing Your Application with Qt Designer 5. Qt Foundations 6. Developing Applications with Qt Widgets 7. Section 2: Advanced Features
8. Drawing with Qt 9. Doing More with Qt Quick 10. Implementing Multimedia with Qt Quick 11. Sensors and Qt Quick 12. Section 3: Practical Matters
13. Localizing Your Application with Qt Linguist 14. Optimizing Performance with Qt Creator 15. Developing Mobile Applications with Qt Creator 16. Embedded and IoT Development with Qt Creator 17. Qt Tips and Tricks 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we took a whirlwind tour of the Qt Widgets module. We learned about some of the basic widgets available, and the signals, slots, and properties they provide. We also learned about Qt's application of the MVC paradigm and how, for complex widgets like such as and tree views, Qt separates concerns into a model and a view, letting us implement new data models for our applications, or create new views based on those data models. Then, we learned about Qt's support for the WebEngine browser, letting us build hybrid applications that incorporate the best of JavaScript and HTML with the best of Qt. Finally, we learned about the new additions to Qt Widgets and how they help in application development and language support.

In the next chapter, we move on from widgets to low-level drawing, which we can use to either implement our own widgets or basic pixel...

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