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Learn Qt 5

By : Nicholas Sherriff

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Learn Qt 5

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By: Nicholas Sherriff

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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.

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Hello Qt

Installing Qt

Summary

Project Structure

Projects, MVC, and unit testing

Mastering MVC

Summary

User Interface

Creating views

StackView

Anchors

Sizing

Navigation

Summary

Style

Style resource

Font Awesome

Components

Styling the navigation bar

Summary

Data

JSON

Object hierarchy

DataDecorators

Entities

Entity collections

Data models

Custom TextBox

Summary

Unit Testing

Unit testing

The default Qt approach

Custom approach

DataDecorator tests

Entity Tests

Mocking

Summary

Persistence

SQLite

Panels

Summary

Web Requests

Network access

Web Requests

Summary

Wrapping Up

Object factory

Summary

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In this chapter, we extended our reach outside of our application and began interacting with external APIs using HTTP requests over the internet. We abstracted the Qt functionality using our own interfaces to improve decoupling and make our components more test friendly. We took a quick look at RSS and its structure and how to process XML node trees using Qt’s XML module. Finally, we reinforced the great UI work we’ve been doing and added an interactive view to display an RSS feed and launch the default web browser for a given URL.

In Chapter 9, Wrapping Up, we will take a look at the steps required to package our application for deployment to other computers.