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Application Development with Qt Creator - Second Edition

You're reading from   Application Development with Qt Creator - Second Edition Design and build dazzling cross-platform applications using Qt and Qt Quick

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784398675
Length 264 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Qt Creator 2. Building Applications with Qt Creator FREE CHAPTER 3. Designing Your Application with Qt Designer 4. Qt Foundations 5. Developing Applications with Qt Widgets 6. Drawing with Qt 7. Doing More with Qt Quick 8. Multimedia and Qt Quick 9. Sensors and Qt Quick 10. Localizing Your Application with Qt Linguist 11. Optimizing Performance with Qt Creator 12. Developing Mobile Applications with Qt Creator 13. Qt Tips and Tricks Index

Chapter 4. Qt Foundations

Qt is a truly cross-platform framework for building applications. As such, it has a large number of core classes to manage data as well as wrappers around platform services such as threading, the filesystem, network I/O, and of course, graphics.

In this chapter, we discuss some of Qt's core classes that you will find especially handy while writing your applications. In this discussion, we will focus on the bits of Qt that are especially helpful when constructing the business logic for your application. We will begin with a discussion on a handful of useful data classes. After that, we will look at Qt's support for multithreading, a key tool in keeping applications feeling responsive. Next, we will look at file and HTTP I/O, an important component in many applications. We will close with a look at Qt's XML parser, which you can use to create networked applications or use to load XML data from the filesystem.

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