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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)

Creating views

In cm-ui, right-click on views.qrc and select Add New…. Select Qt > QML File and click on Choose...:

Create the SplashView.qml file in cm-ui/ui/views. Repeat this process until you’ve created all the following views:

File

Purpose

SplashView.qml

Placeholder view displayed while the UI is loading.

DashboardView.qml

The central “home” view.

CreateClientView.qml

View for entering details of a new client.

EditClientView.qml

View for reading/updating the existing client details.

FindClientView.qml

View for searching for the existing clients.

Edit views.qrc in the Plain Text Editor as we have done previously. You will see that our new views have been added to a new qresource block with the default prefix of the following:

<RCC>
    <qresource prefix="/views">
        <file...