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Learn Qt 5

By : Nicholas Sherriff
Book Image

Learn Qt 5

By: Nicholas Sherriff

Overview of this book

Qt is a mature and powerful framework for delivering sophisticated applications across a multitude of platforms. It has a rich history in the Linux world, is widely used in embedded devices, and has made great strides in the Mobile arena over the past few years. However, in the Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X worlds, the dominance of C#/.NET and Objective-C/Cocoa means that Qt is often overlooked. This book demonstrates the power and flexibility of the Qt framework for desktop application development and shows how you can write your application once and deploy it to multiple operating systems. Build a complete real-world line of business (LOB) solution from scratch, with distinct C++ library, QML user interface, and QtTest-driven unit-test projects. This is a suite of essential techniques that cover the core requirements for most LOB applications and will empower you to progress from a blank page to shipped application.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Style resource

First off, let’s create a new resource file to contain the non-QML visual elements we will need. In the cm-ui project, Add New... > Qt > Qt Resource File:

Name the file assets.qrc and place it in cm/cm-ui. Your new file will automatically open in the Resource Editor, which I don’t find to be a particularly helpful editor, so close it. You will see that the assets.qrc file has been added to the Resources section of the cm-ui project. Right-click on it and select Add New… > Qt > QML File. Call the file Style.qml and save it to cm/cm-ui/assets.

Edit the assets.qrc file in the Plain Text Editor in the same way we did for the views:

<RCC>
    <qresource prefix="/assets">
        <file alias="Style.qml">assets/Style.qml</file>
    </qresource>
</RCC>

Now, edit Style.qml and we’...