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Application Development with Qt Creator

Application Development with Qt Creator

By : Eng
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Application Development with Qt Creator

Application Development with Qt Creator

2.3 (4)
By: Eng

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)
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Section 1: The Basics
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Section 2: Advanced Features
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Section 3: Practical Matters

Managing the widget layout with layouts

Qt Widgets includes a robust layout system to control the presentation of widgets on the display. Layouts are basically similar to widgets; they can be placed on an application, get named, become a parent to other widgets, and many others.

However, unlike widgets, their sole purpose is for managing the widgets and their positions in your application. The following screenshot illustrates the purpose of layouts. Do note that we're only showing one type of layout here (a vertical layout), and there are many other types of layouts that we will talk about later:

In Qt Creator Designer, you can pick from the following layouts:

  • QBoxLayout: This lays out its view children horizontally or vertically.
  • QHBoxLayout: This lays out its view children horizontally.
  • QVBoxLayout: This lays out its view children vertically.
  • QFormLayout: This lays out...

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