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QT5 Blueprints

You're reading from   QT5 Blueprints Design, build, and deploy cross-platform GUI projects using the amazingly powerful Qt 5 framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784394615
Length 272 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Symeon Huang Symeon Huang
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Creating Your First Qt Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a Beautiful Cross-platform Clock 3. Cooking an RSS Reader with Qt Quick 4. Controlling Camera and Taking Photos 5. Extending Paint Applications with Plugins 6. Getting Wired and Managing Downloads 7. Parsing JSON and XML Documents to Use Online APIs 8. Enabling Your Qt Application to Support Other Languages 9. Deploying Applications on Other Devices 10. Don't Panic When You Encounter These Issues Index

Creating an installer


Although it's quick to use an archive file to distribute your application, it seems more professional if you provide users with an installer. Qt offers Qt Installer Framework whose latest open source version, 1.5.0 for now, can be obtained from http://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt-installer-framework/1.5.0/.

For the sake of convenience, let's create a folder named dist under the Qt Installer Framework installation path, D:\Qt\QtIFW-1.5.0. This folder is used to store all the application projects that need to be packaged.

Then, create a folder named internationalization under dist. Inside internationalization, create two folders, config and packages.

The name of the directory inside the packages directory acts as a domain-like, or say Java-style, identifier. In this example, we have two packages, one is the application while the other one is a translation. Therefore, it adds to the two folders in the packages directory, com.demo.internationalization, and com.demo...

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