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Mastering Qt 5 - Second Edition

By : Guillaume Lazar, Robin Penea
Book Image

Mastering Qt 5 - Second Edition

By: Guillaume Lazar, Robin Penea

Overview of this book

Qt 5.11 is an app development framework that provides a great user experience and develops full capability applications with Qt Widgets, QML, and even Qt 3D. Whether you're building GUI prototypes or fully-fledged cross-platform GUI applications with a native look and feel, Mastering Qt 5 is your fastest, easiest, and most powerful solution. This book addresses various challenges and teaches you to successfully develop cross-platform applications using the Qt framework, with the help of well-organized projects. Working through this book, you will gain a better understanding of the Qt framework, as well as the tools required to resolve serious issues, such as linking, debugging, and multithreading. You'll start off your journey by discovering the new Qt 5.11 features, soon followed by exploring different platforms and learning to tame them. In addition to this, you'll interact with a gamepad using Qt Gamepad. Each chapter is a logical step for you to complete in order to master Qt. By the end of this book, you'll have created an application that has been tested and is ready to be shipped.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Managing your workspace with sessions

It is common for a commercial product to be composed of several Qt projects. In this book, we regularly encountered such a practice. An example would be an application composed of a core project and a GUI project. The Qt subdirs project can be used to handle interdependent projects within the same application.

However, when your product grows up, you will want to open some unrelated projects in Qt Creator. In that case, you should use a session. A session is a complete snapshot of your workspace in Qt Creator. You can easily create a new session from File | Session Manager | New (do not forget to switch to the new session). For example, you could create a session, Mastering Qt5, and load all project examples into a common workspace.

Sessions are useful when you need to quickly switch between two different workspaces. The following items in...