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Game Programming using Qt 5 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

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Game Programming using Qt 5 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Qt is the leading cross-platform toolkit for all significant desktop, mobile, and embedded platforms and is becoming popular by the day, especially on mobile and embedded devices. It's a powerful tool that perfectly fits the needs of game developers. This book will help you learn the basics of Qt and will equip you with the necessary toolsets to build apps and games. The book begins by how to create an application and prepare a working environment for both desktop and mobile platforms. You will learn how to use built-in Qt widgets and Form Editor to create a GUI application and then learn the basics of creating graphical interfaces and Qt's core concepts. Further, you'll learn to enrich your games by implementing network connectivity and employing scripting. You will learn about Qt's capabilities for handling strings and files, data storage, and serialization. Moving on, you will learn about the new Qt Gamepad module and how to add it in your game and then delve into OpenGL and Vulcan, and how it can be used in Qt applications to implement hardware-accelerated 2D and 3D graphics. You will then explore various facets of Qt Quick: how it can be used in games to add game logic, add game physics, and build astonishing UIs for your games. By the end of this book, you will have developed the skillset to develop interesting games with Qt.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Qt Creator

Now that Qt is installed, we will get familiar with Qt Creator and use it to verify the installation.

Qt Creator's modes

After Qt Creator starts, you should be presented with the following screen:

The panel on the left allows you to switch between different modes of the IDE:

  • Welcome mode: Allows you to quickly open last sessions, projects, load examples, and tutorials.
  • Edit mode: The main mode used to edit the source code of your applications.
  • Design mode: Contains a visual form editor. Design mode is automatically activated when you create or open a Qt Widgets form file (.ui) or a QML form file (.ui.qml).
  • Debug mode: Automatically activated when you launch the application under debugger. It contains additional...