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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

Enabling LSP on your Qt Creator

The LSP (short for Language Server Protocol) is one of the latest features added to Qt in recent versions. The LSP makes Qt even more powerful by adding supports for other programming languages other than C++ and QML. By providing a client for the LSP, Qt Creator can provide the following features for programming languages that support the LSP:

  • Code autocompletion
  • Highlighting a symbol when it has a mouseover event
  • Code actions
  • Inspecting code by viewing the document outline
  • Integrating diagnostics from the language server
  • Finding references to a symbol
  • Navigate to a symbol definition

This extends the usefulness of Qt Creator and removes the barrier that keeps Qt within the C++ realm. You could even write your Python project using Qt Creator and execute the code directly without leaving Qt! So, to enable LSP in Qt Creators, go to Help | About...