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Mastering Qt 5

By : Guillaume Lazar, Robin Penea
Book Image

Mastering Qt 5

By: Guillaume Lazar, Robin Penea

Overview of this book

Qt 5.7 is an application development framework that provides a great user experience and develops full-capability applications with Qt Widgets, QML, and even Qt 3D. This book will address challenges in successfully developing cross-platform applications with the Qt framework. Cross-platform development needs a well-organized project. Using this book, you will have a better understanding of the Qt framework and the tools to resolve serious issues such as linking, debugging, and multithreading. Your journey will start with the new Qt 5 features. Then you will explore different platforms and learn to tame them. Every chapter along the way is a logical step that you must take to master Qt. The journey will end in an application that has been tested and is ready to be shipped.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering Qt 5
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Interacting with sockets from the application


The next project to complete is mandelbrot-app. It will contain the QTcpServer that will interact with the workers and the picture drawing of the Mandelbrot set. As a reminder, the diagram of the mandelbrot-app architecture is shown here:

We will build this application from the ground up. Let's start with the class responsible for maintaining the connection with a specific Worker: WorkerClient. This class will live in its specific QThread and will interact with a Worker class using the same  QTcpSocket/QDataStream mechanism we covered in the last section.

In mandelbrot-app, create a new C++ class named WorkerClient and update  WorkerClient.h like so:

#include <QTcpSocket> 
#include <QList> 
#include <QDataStream> 
 
#include "JobRequest.h" 
#include "JobResult.h" 
#include "Message.h" 
 
class WorkerClient : public QObject 
{ 
    Q_OBJECT 
public: 
    WorkerClient(int socketDescriptor); 
 
private: 
    int mSocketDescriptor...