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Game Programming Using Qt: Beginner's Guide

By : Witold Wysota, Witold Wysota, Lorenz Haas
Book Image

Game Programming Using Qt: Beginner's Guide

By: Witold Wysota, Witold Wysota, Lorenz Haas

Overview of this book

Qt is the leading cross-platform toolkit for all significant desktop, mobile, and embedded platforms and is becoming more popular by the day, especially on mobile and embedded devices. Despite its simplicity, it's a powerful tool that perfectly fits game developers’ needs. Using Qt and Qt Quick, it is easy to build fun games or shiny user interfaces. You only need to create your game once and deploy it on all major platforms like iOS, Android, and WinRT without changing a single source file. The book begins with a brief introduction to creating an application and preparing a working environment for both desktop and mobile platforms. It then dives deeper into the basics of creating graphical interfaces and Qt core concepts of data processing and display before you try creating a game. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll learn to enrich your games by implementing network connectivity and employing scripting. We then delve into Qt Quick, OpenGL, and various other tools to add game logic, design animation, add game physics, and build astonishing UI for the games. Towards the final chapters, you’ll learn to exploit mobile device features such as accelerators and sensors to build engaging user experiences. If you are planning to learn about Qt and its associated toolsets to build apps and games, this book is a must have.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Game Programming Using Qt
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 6, Graphics View


Pop quiz – mastering Graphics View

Q1

You should know, for example, that there is a QGraphicsSimpleTextItem that you can use to draw a simple text and that you do not have to deal with QPainter yourself in these situations. You should further know that if you have a more complex text containing bold characters you can use QGraphicsTextItem, which is able of handling rich text.

Q2

The correct answers these questions pertain to the origin points of the different systems.

Q3

Be aware that QObject isn't restricted to the "world of widgets". You can also use it with items.

Q4

The catchword for the correct answer is Parallax Scrolling.

Q5

The correct answer will take into account how you can control the cache and how to affect which parts of the view are actually redrawn when an update is requested.