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Qt5 C++ GUI Programming Cookbook

By : Lee Zhi Eng
Book Image

Qt5 C++ GUI Programming Cookbook

By: Lee Zhi Eng

Overview of this book

With the advancement of computer technology, the software market is exploding with tons of software choices for the user, making their expectations higher in terms of functionality and the look and feel of the application. Therefore, improving the visual quality of your application is vital in order to overcome the market competition and stand out from the crowd. This book will teach you how to develop functional and appealing software using Qt5 through multiple projects that are interesting and fun. This book covers a variety of topics such as look-and-feel customization, GUI animation, graphics rendering, implementing Google Maps, and more. You will learn tons of useful information, and enjoy the process of working on the creative projects provided in this book
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Qt5 C++ GUI Programming Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up OpenGL in Qt


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

How to do it…

  1. First, let's create a new Qt widgets application by going to File | New File or Project.

  2. Next, 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 drop-down menu. Then, a message box will appear and ask for your confirmation. Tick Delete file permanently and press the OK button.

  3. After that, open up your project file (.pro) and add the OpenGL module to your project by adding an opengl keyword behind QT +=, like so:

    QT += core gui opengl
  4. You also need to add another line in your project file so that it will load both the OpenGL and GLu (OpenGL Utilities) libraries during startup. Without these two libraries, you program will not be able to run:

    LIBS += -lopengl32 -lglu32
  5. Then, open up mainwindow.h and remove several things from it:

    #ifndef MAINWINDOW_H
    #define MAINWINDOW_H
    #include <QMainWindow...