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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

Flashing the thumbnail in a sequence


For this last animation, we want to display a blue flash on each filter preview when the thumbnail is updated. We do not want to flash all previews at the same time, but in a sequence, one by one. This feature will be achieved in two parts:

  • Create a color animation in FilterWidget to display a blue flash

  • Build a sequential animation group in MainWindow containing all FilterWidget color animations

Let's start to add the color animation. Update FilterWidget.h as shown in the following snippet:

#include <QGraphicsColorizeEffect> 
 
class FilterWidget : public QWidget 
{ 
    Q_OBJECT 
 
public: 
    explicit FilterWidget(Filter& filter, QWidget *parent = 0); 
    ~FilterWidget(); 
    ... 
    QPropertyAnimation* colorAnimation(); 
 
private: 
    ... 
    QPropertyAnimation mSelectionAnimation; 
    QPropertyAnimation* mColorAnimation; 
    QGraphicsColorizeEffect mColorEffect; 
}; 

This time we do not want to affect the opacity, but rather colorize...