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Application Development with Qt Creator - Third Edition

By : Lee Zhi Eng, Ray Rischpater
Book Image

Application Development with Qt Creator - Third Edition

By: Lee Zhi Eng, Ray Rischpater

Overview of this book

Qt is a powerful development framework that serves as a complete toolset for building cross-platform applications, helping you reduce development time and improve productivity. Completely revised and updated to cover C++17 and the latest developments in Qt 5.12, this comprehensive guide is the third edition of Application Development with Qt Creator. You'll start by designing a user interface using Qt Designer and learn how to instantiate custom messages, forms, and dialogues. You'll then understand Qt's support for multithreading, a key tool for making applications responsive, and the use of Qt's Model-View-Controller (MVC) to display data and content. As you advance, you'll learn to draw images on screen using Graphics View Framework and create custom widgets that interoperate with Qt Widgets. This Qt programming book takes you through Qt Creator's latest features, such as Qt Quick Controls 2, enhanced CMake support, a new graphical editor for SCXML, and a model editor. You'll even work with multimedia and sensors using Qt Quick, and finally develop applications for mobile, IoT, and embedded devices using Qt Creator. By the end of this Qt book, you'll be able to create your own cross-platform applications from scratch using Qt Creator and the C++ programming language.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics
7
Section 2: Advanced Features
12
Section 3: Practical Matters

Qt Tips and Tricks

In the previous chapters, we discussed what makes Qt great for software development: how to edit, compile, and debug applications; how to profile their execution and memory performance; how to localize them for different regions of the world; as well as how to make mobile applications that run on Android phones and tablets.

In this chapter, we will discuss a collection of tips and tricks that you should know about when using Qt Creator and Qt, which will have you writing software like a pro.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Writing console applications with Qt Creator
  • Integration with version control systems
  • Configuring the coding style and coding format options
  • Applying a new theme to Qt Creator
  • Setting the Qt Quick window display options
  • Building projects from CMake and the command line
  • Running multiple debuggers simultaneously
  • Learning...