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Hands-On Embedded Programming with Qt

You're reading from   Hands-On Embedded Programming with Qt Develop high performance applications for embedded systems with C++ and Qt 5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789952063
Length 416 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with Embedded Qt FREE CHAPTER
2. Setting Up the Environment 3. Writing Your First Qt Application 4. Running Your First Application on the Target 5. Section 2: Working with Embedded Qt
6. Important Qt Concepts 7. Managing the Overall Workflow 8. Exploring GUI Technologies 9. Adding More Features 10. Section 3: Deep Dive into Embedded Qt
11. Qt in the Embedded World 12. Exploring the IoT with Qt 13. Using More Qt-Related Technologies 14. Section 4: Advanced Techniques and Best Practices
15. Debugging, Logging, and Monitoring Qt Applications 16. Responsive Application Programming - Threads 17. Qt Best Practices 18. Assessments 19. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A: BigProject Requirements
1. Appendix B: Bonus Code - Simplifying Q_PROPERTY

Remote GUI

We live in an age of web-connected devices, and the marketing department wants to be able to say that BigProject can be accessed from the web:

  • Req 24: The system shall be accessible through a web client.

One of the more interesting features to emerge from Qt in 5.12 is support for remote GUIs using WebGL. Using this, the GUI for an application is accessed through a WebGL-compatible web browser (in other words, Chrome, Edge, or Safari).

QML-based applications can be run through WebGL by simply instructing them to run against the WebGL display platform:

[On Target]$ your-qt-application -platform webgl:port=port#

Preparing the Target

The distribution of Yocto we are using comes with a firewall already enabled on...

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