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Qt5 C++ GUI Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Qt5 C++ GUI Programming Cookbook Practical recipes for building cross-platform GUI applications, widgets, and animations with Qt 5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789803822
Length 428 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Lee  Z Eng Lee Z Eng
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Lee Zhi Eng Lee Zhi Eng
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Look-and-Feel Customization with Qt Designer FREE CHAPTER 2. Event Handling - Signals and Slots 3. States and Animations with Qt and QML 4. QPainter and 2D Graphics 5. OpenGL Implementation 6. Using Network and Managing Large Documents 7. Threading Basics - Asynchronous Programming 8. Building a Touch Screen Application with Qt5 9. XML Parsing Made Easy 10. Conversion Library 11. Accessing Databases with SQL Driver and Qt 12. Develop Web Applications using Qt WebEngine 13. Performance Optimization 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting up OpenGL in Qt

In this recipe, we will learn how to set up OpenGL in Qt 5.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to learn how to set up OpenGL in Qt:

  1. Create a new Qt Widgets Application by going to File | New File or Project.
  2. We will remove the mainwindow.ui file because we are not going to use it in this example. Right-click on the mainwindow.ui file and select Remove File from the dropdown menu. Then, a message box will appear and ask for your confirmation. Tick Delete file permanently and press the OK button.
  3. Repeat Step 2 for both mainwindow.h and mainwindow.cpp as well. We don't need these two files in this project either.
  4. Open up your project file (.pro) and add the OpenGL module to your project by adding...
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