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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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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 1.  Get Your Qt Feet Wet

If you know C++ but have never touched Qt, or if you have made some intermediate Qt applications, this chapter will ensure that your Qt foundations are safe before studying advanced concepts in the following chapters.

We will teach you to create a simple todo application using Qt Creator. This application will display a list of tasks that you can create/update/delete. We will cover the Qt Creator and Qt Designer interfaces, an introduction to the signal/slot mechanism, the creation of a custom widget with custom signals/slots, and its integration into your application.

You will implement a todo app using new C++14 semantics: lambdas, auto variables, and for loops. Each one of these concepts will be explained in depth and will be used throughout the book.

At the end of this chapter, you will be able to create a desktop application with a flexible UI using Qt widgets and new C++ semantics.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Qt project basic structure
  • Qt Designer interface
  • UI fundamentals
  • Signals and slots
  • Custom QWidget
  • C++14 lambda, auto, for each
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