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Mastering Qt 5 - Second Edition

By : Guillaume Lazar, Robin Penea
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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)

Summary

In this chapter, you learned some tips that will complement your Qt knowledge. You should now have the ability to use Qt Creator with ease and efficiency. The QDebug format should not hold any secrets, and you can now save your logs to a file without even blinking. You can now create a good-looking CLI interface, debug the memory of any program without shaking, and execute an HTTP request with confidence.

This journey will now come to an end. You are prepared for daily challenges. Throughout this book, you saw that the Qt framework is more than just another C++ GUI framework. We designed library/application projects. We crafted cross-platform applications. We added Qt modules, like Qt Charts, Qt 3D, and Qt Gamepad. We integrated a third-party library, with the essential OpenCV. You learned a lot of Qt Creator tips to master this underrated IDE. We sincerely hope that you...