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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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In the first part of this chapter, you familiarized yourself with QNetworkAccessManager. This class is at the heart of your code whenever you want to download or upload files to the internet. After having gone through the different signals that you can use to fetch errors, to get notified about new data or to show the progress, you should now know everything you need on that topic.

The example about the Distance Matrix API depended on your knowledge of QNetworkAccessManager, and it shows you a real-life application case for it. Dealing with JSON as the server's reply format was a summary of Chapter 4, Qt Core Essentials, but it was highly needed since Facebook and Twitter only use JSON to format their network replies.

In the last section, you learned how to set up your own TCP server and clients. This enables you to connect different instances of a game to provide...