Application Development with Qt Creator - Second Edition

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Application Development with Qt Creator - Second Edition

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Application Development with Qt Creator - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Application Development with Qt Creator Second Edition

Application Development with Qt Creator Second Edition

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

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Preface

Free Chapter

Getting Started with Qt Creator

Getting Started with Qt Creator

Downloading Qt and Qt Creator

Finding your way around Qt Creator

Your first application – Hello World

Hello World using the QtGui library

Hello World using Qt Quick

Building Applications with Qt Creator

Building Applications with Qt Creator

Getting started – our sample library

Learning the landscape – the Build menu and the .pro files

Linking against our sample library

Getting lost and found again – debugging

The Projects pane and building your project

A review – running and debugging your application

Designing Your Application with Qt Designer

Designing Your Application with Qt Designer

Code interlude – signals and slots

Creating forms in Qt Designer

Instantiating forms, message boxes, and dialogs in your application

Wiring the Qt Widgets' application logic

Code interlude – Qt Quick and the QML syntax

Creating Qt Quick applications in Qt Designer

Qt Foundations

Representing data using Qt's core classes

Multithreading in Qt

Accessing files using Qt

Accessing HTTP resources using Qt

Parsing XML using Qt

Developing Applications with Qt Widgets

Developing Applications with Qt Widgets

Your main application and its menus

Simple Qt Widgets

Managing the widget layout with layouts

Model-view-controller programming with Qt

Rendering web content with QWebView

Drawing with Qt

Drawing with Qt

What we need to start drawing with Qt

Drawing with QPainter on QPaintDevice instances

Drawing off screen

Creating custom widgets

The Graphics View Framework

Doing More with Qt Quick

Doing More with Qt Quick

The fundamental concepts of Qt Quick

States and transitions in Qt Quick

Integrating Qt Quick and C++

Putting it all together – an image gallery application

Multimedia and Qt Quick

Multimedia and Qt Quick

Multimedia in Qt

Playing audio clips and sound effects

Playing video clips

Accessing the camera

Sensors and Qt Quick

Sensors and Qt Quick

Determining the device location

Obtaining a device's position – a simple example

Localizing Your Application with Qt Linguist

Localizing Your Application with Qt Linguist

Understanding the task of localization

Marking strings for localization

Localizing your application with QLinguist

Including localized strings in your application

Localizing special parameters – currencies and dates with QLocale

Optimizing Performance with Qt Creator

Optimizing Performance with Qt Creator

The QML performance analyzer

Finding memory leaks with Valgrind

Developing Mobile Applications with Qt Creator

Developing Mobile Applications with Qt Creator

A mobile software development primer

Setting up Qt Creator for Android

Supporting other mobile platforms

Qt Tips and Tricks

Qt Tips and Tricks

Writing console applications with Qt Creator

Integrating Qt Creator with version control systems

Configuring the coding style and coding format options

Building projects from the command line

Setting the Qt Quick window display options

Learning more about Qt

Debugging Qt's signal-slot connections

Index

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Supporting other mobile platforms

In addition to supporting Android, Qt supports iOS and BlackBerry; other platforms might be supported in the future. For more information on Qt's support for mobile platforms, see the Qt documentation at http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/mobiledevelopment.html.