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Hands-On GUI Programming with C++ and Qt5

You're reading from   Hands-On GUI Programming with C++ and Qt5 Build stunning cross-platform applications and widgets with the most powerful GUI framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788397827
Length 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Lee Zhi Eng Lee Zhi Eng
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Preface 1. Introduction to Qt FREE CHAPTER 2. Qt Widgets and Style Sheets 3. Database Connection 4. Graphs and Charts 5. Item Views and Dialogs 6. Integrating Web Content 7. Map Viewer 8. Graphics View 9. The Camera Module 10. Instant Messaging 11. Implementing a Graphics Editor 12. Cloud Storage 13. Multimedia Viewers 14. Qt Quick and QML 15. Cross-Platform Development 16. Testing and Debugging 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating your own web browser

Once upon a time, Qt used a different module called WebKit to render web contents on its user interface. However, the WebKit module has been completely deprecated since version 5.5 and replaced by a new module called WebEngine.

The new WebEngine module is based on the Chromium framework built by Google, and it will only work on the Visual C++ compiler on the Windows platform. Therefore, if you're running Windows, please make sure that you have installed Microsoft Visual Studio on your computer as well as all the MSVC components for Qt that match the version of Visual Studio installed on your computer. Other than that, the Qt WebEngine component is also required for this particular chapter. If you have skipped the components during Qt's installation, all you need to do is to run the same installer again and install it there:

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