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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

Designing the UI with FilterWidget


Fine. Our filter classes are implemented, and we can now create our custom widget. This widget will take in input, a source, and a thumbnail picture. Then the thumbnail is immediately processed to display a preview of the filter. If the user clicks on the widget, it will process the source picture and trigger a signal with the filtered picture. Keep in mind that this widget will later be dragged and dropped in the Form Editor of Qt Creator. That's why we will provide properties with getters and setters to select a filter from Qt Creator. Please create a new widget called FilterWidget using the Qt Designer Form Class template. The FilterWidget.ui is really simple:

The titleLabel is a QLabel on top of the QWidget. Below, thumbnailLabel will display the filtered picture thumbnail. Let's switch to FilterWidget.h:

class FILTERPLUGINDESIGNERSHARED_EXPORT FilterWidget : public QWidget 
{ 
    Q_OBJECT 
 
    Q_ENUMS(FilterType) 
    Q_PROPERTY(QString title READ...