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You're reading from Mastering Qt 5 Create stunning cross-platform applications using C++ with Qt Widgets and QML with Qt Quick

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788995399

Length 534 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Authors (2):

Robin Penea

Guillaume Lazar

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

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 Multimedia and Serialization

12. You Shall (Not) Pass with QTest

13. All Packed and Ready to Deploy

14. Qt Hat Tips and Tricks

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Conquering the Desktop UI

In the previous chapter, we built the brain of our gallery using Qt models. It is now time to build a desktop application using this engine. This software will use all the features offered by the gallery-core library, leading to a completely usable gallery on your computer.

The first task will be to link your project-shared library to this new application. Then you will learn how to create custom widgets, when to use Qt views, and how to synchronize them with the model.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

Creating a GUI linked to a core shared library
Listing your albums with AlbumListWidget
Creating a ThumbnailProxyModel
Displaying a picture with PictureWidget

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Authors (2)

Guillaume Lazar

Guillaume Lazar is a software engineer living in France, near Paris. He has worked in different companies, from start-ups to multinationals, for the last 10 years. He took the opportunity to observe and learn many team organizations and technologies. In 2014, he founded his own software development company at the age of 27. The current hierarchical organization that applies to most companies seems obsolete to him. With his own company, he wants to try a different approach. Although he defines himself as a Qt framework lover, he likes to mix different technologies and platforms. He also spends time on game development, machine learning, and electronics, because "things" become "alive".

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Robin Penea

Robin Penea has been working in the software industry for a more than a decade. He worked in start-ups and large companies with many technologies that ranged from embedded software to web development. Armed with this experience, he wrote the Mastering Qt 5 book to spread what he loves the most about the programming craft: proper design and quality code. The teaching bug has bitten him, and he continues to share what he learned online using videos. When he is not tinkering with some new technology, he is either on a wall, rock-climbing, or playing music on his piano. You can reach him via Twitter @synapticrob.

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