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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

CpuWidget using QCharts

Now that the base class SysInfoWidget is ready, let's implement its first child class: CpuWidget. We will now use the Qt Charts API to display a good-looking widget. The average CPU load will be displayed in a pie graph with a hole in the center, like a partly eaten donut where the eaten part is the percentage of the CPU used. The first step is to add a new C++ class named CpuWidget and make it inherit SysInfoWidget:

#include "SysInfoWidget.h" 
 
class CpuWidget : public SysInfoWidget 
{ 
public: 
    explicit CpuWidget(QWidget* parent = 0); 
}; 

In the constructor, the only parameter needed is a QWidget* parent. Since we provided default values for the startDelayMs and updateSeriesDelayMs variables in SysInfoWidget class, we get the best possible behavior; there is no need to remember it when subclassing SysInfoWidget, but it is still easy to override it if need be.

The next step is to override the updateSeries() function...

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