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Mastering Qt 5

By : Guillaume Lazar, Robin Penea
Book Image

Mastering Qt 5

By: Guillaume Lazar, Robin Penea

Overview of this book

Qt 5.7 is an application development framework that provides a great user experience and develops full-capability applications with Qt Widgets, QML, and even Qt 3D. This book will address challenges in successfully developing cross-platform applications with the Qt framework. Cross-platform development needs a well-organized project. Using this book, you will have a better understanding of the Qt framework and the tools to resolve serious issues such as linking, debugging, and multithreading. Your journey will start with the new Qt 5 features. Then you will explore different platforms and learn to tame them. Every chapter along the way is a logical step that you must take to master Qt. The journey will end in an application that has been tested and is ready to be shipped.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering Qt 5
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Preparing an SDK


Before diving into the code, we have to take a moment to reflect on how we are going to structure it. This chapter has two goals:

  • Cover the Qt Plugin system in more depth

  • Study and integrate the Qt Animation Framework

The first part of the chapter will focus on the plugin system. What we aim to do is provide a way to build plugins that can be integrated in our application to third-party developers. These plugins should be dynamically loaded. The application will be a direct offspring of the example project from Chapter 7Third-Party Libraries Without a Headache. The features will be exactly the same, except it will be using this new plugin system and will have fancy animations.

The structure of the project will be as follows:

The parent project is ch08-image-animation, which is composed of the following:

  • filter-plugin-original: A library project, which is the implementation of the original filter

  • filter-plugin-grayscale: A library project, which is the implementation of the grayscale...