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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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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

Creating a Qt Quick project


This chapter will follow the same project structure we covered in Chapter 4Conquering the Desktop UI: a parent project ch05-gallery-mobile.pro will host our two subprojects, gallery-core and the new gallery-mobile.

In Qt creator, you can create a Qt Quick subproject from FileNew File or ProjectApplicationQt Quick Controls ApplicationChoose.

The wizard will allow you to customize your project creation:

  • Location

    • Choose a project name (gallery-mobile) and a location

  • Details

    • Deselect With ui.qml file

    • Deselect Enable native styling

  • Kits

    • Select your desktop kit

    • Select at least one mobile kit

  • Summary

    • Be sure to add gallery-mobile as a subproject of ch05-gallery-mobile.pro

Let's take some time to explain why we created our project with these options.

The first thing to analyze is the application template. By default, Qt Quick only provides basic QML components (RectangleImageText, and so on). Advanced components will be handled by Qt Quick modules. For this project...

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