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Mastering Qt 5

You're reading from   Mastering Qt 5 Create stunning cross-platform applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786467126
Length 526 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Robin Penea Robin Penea
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Guillaume Lazar Guillaume Lazar
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Get Your Qt Feet Wet FREE CHAPTER 2. Discovering QMake Secrets 3. Dividing Your Project and Ruling Your Code 4. Conquering the Desktop UI 5. Dominating the Mobile UI 6. Even Qt Deserves a Slice of Raspberry Pi 7. Third-Party Libraries Without a Headache 8. Animations - Its Alive, Alive! 9. Keeping Your Sanity with Multithreading 10. Need IPC? Get Your Minions to Work 11. Having Fun with Serialization 12. You Shall (Not) Pass with QTest 13. All Packed and Ready to Deploy 14. Qt Hat Tips and Tricks

Bringing PlaybackWorker to life

The user can play a sound live with a mouse click or a keyboard key. But when he records an awesome beat, the application must be able to play it again with the PlaybackWorker class. Let's see how MainWindow uses this worker. Here is the MainWindow.h related to the PlaybackWorker class:

class MainWindow : public QMainWindow 
{ 
... 
private slots: 
    void playSoundEffect(int soundId); 
    void clearPlayback(); 
    void stopPlayback(); 
    ... 
 
private: 
    void startPlayback(); 
    ... 
 
private: 
    PlaybackWorker* mPlaybackWorker; 
    QThread* mPlaybackThread; 
    ... 
}; 

As you can see, MainWindow has PlaybackWorker and a QThread member variables. Let's see the implementation of startPlayback():

void MainWindow::startPlayback() 
{ 
    clearPlayback(); 
 
    mPlaybackThread = new QThread(); 
 
    mPlaybackWorker = new PlaybackWorker(mTrack); 
    mPlaybackWorker->moveToThread(mPlaybackThread...
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