Book Image

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

Creating user interfaces with Qt Designer

Let's create a simple calculator application, using Qt Designer and two forms: one form that takes the arguments for an arithmetic operation, and a second dialog form to present the results.

Bear in mind that we will be using these forms in the following sections of this chapter as well. We'll do this twice in this chapter, first to show how to do this using Qt Widgets, and second, by using Qt Quick. The example is contrived but will show you how to create multiple user interface forms in both environments, and will give you practice in working with signals and slots.

F1 is the keystroke you can use in Qt Creator to get help. As you write code in this and subsequent chapters, for any class or method you're curious about, select it and hit F1. You'll be taken to Qt's Help mode, with documentation about that class...