Mastering Qt 5 · 2nd Edition by Lazar, Guillaume -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright and Credits

Mastering Qt 5 Second Edition

Dedication Packt Upsell

Why subscribe? PacktPub.com

Contributors

About the authors About the reviewers Packt is searching for authors like you

Preface

Who this book is for What this book covers To get the most out of this book

Download the example code files Conventions used

Get in touch

Reviews

Get Your Qt Feet Wet

Qt project basic structure MainWindow structure Qt Designer interface Signals and slots Custom QWidget Adding a task Using a QDialog Distributing code responsibility Emitting a custom signal using lambdas Simplifying with the auto type and a range-based for loop Summary

Discovering qmake Secrets

Designing a cross-platform project

Adding the Windows implementation Adding the Linux implementation Adding the macOS implementation

Transforming SysInfo into a singleton Exploring Qt Charts CpuWidget using QCharts Memory using Qcharts The .pro file in depth Under the hood of qmake Beneath Q_OBJECT and signals/slots Summary

Dividing Your Project and Ruling Your Code

Designing a maintainable project Defining data classes Storing your data in a database Protecting your code with a smart pointer Implementing the model Summary

Conquering the Desktop UI

Creating a GUI linked to a core shared library Listing your albums with AlbumListWidget Creating ThumbnailProxyModel Displaying the selected album with AlbumWidget Enhancing thumbnails with PictureDelegate Displaying a picture with PictureWidget Composing your Gallery app Summary

Dominating the Mobile UI

Starting with Qt Quick and QML Checking your development environment Creating a Qt Quick project Preparing your Qt Quick gallery entry point Displaying albums with ListView Theming the application with a QML singleton Loading a database on mobile devices Creating a new album from a custom InputDialog Loading images with an ImageProvider Displaying thumbnails in GridView Swiping through full resolution images Summary

Even Qt Deserves a Slice of Raspberry Pi

Discovering Qt3D Configuring Qt for your Raspberry Pi Creating an entry point for your Qt3D code Setting up the scene Assembling your Qt3D entities Preparing the board game Crafting entities from the factory Building a snake engine in JavaScript Varying the HUD with QML states Profiling your QML application Summary

Third-Party Libraries without a Headache

Creating your Qt Designer plugin Configuring the project for Windows Configuring the project for Linux Configuring the project for Mac Implementing your OpenCV filters Designing the UI with FilterWidget Exposing your plugin to Qt Designer Using your Qt Designer plugin Building the image-filter application Summary

Animations - Its Alive, Alive!

Creating an SDK using the Qt Plugin system Creating your plugins Loading your plugins dynamically Using the plugins inside the application Discovering the Animation Framework Making your thumbnails jump Fading in the picture Flashing the thumbnail in a sequence Summary

Keeping Your Sanity with Multithreading

Discovering QThread Flying over Qt multithreading technologies Architecting the Mandelbrot project Defining a Job class with QRunnable Using QThreadPool in MandelbrotCalculator Displaying the fractal with MandelbrotWidget Summary

Need IPC? Get Your Minions to Work

Inter-process communication techniques Architecturing an IPC project Laying down the foundations with an SDK Working with QDataStream and QTcpSocket Interacting with sockets in the worker Interacting with sockets from the application Building your own QTcpServer Summary

Having Fun with Multimedia and Serialization

Architecting the drum machine project Creating a drum track Making your objects serializable with QVariant Serializing objects in JSON format Serializing objects in XML format Serializing objects in binary format Playing low-latency sounds with QSoundEffect Triggering a QButton with your keyboard Bringing PlaybackWorker to life Accepting mouse drag-and-drop events Summary

You Shall (Not) Pass with QTest

Discovering Qt Test Executing your tests Writing factorized tests with datasets Benchmarking your code Testing your GUI Spying on your application with QSignalSpy Summary

All Packed and Ready to Deploy

Packaging your application Packaging for Windows Packaging for Linux with a distribution package Packaging for Linux with AppImage Packaging for OS X Packaging for Android Packaging for iOS Summary

Qt Hat Tips and Tricks

Managing your workspace with sessions Searching with the Locator Increasing the compilation speed Examining memory with Qt Creator Generating random numbers Silencing unused variable warnings Logging custom objects to QDebug Improving log messages Saving your logs to a file Generating a command-line interface Sending and receiving HTTP data Playing with Qt Gamepad Styling QML with Qt Quick Controls 2 Summary

Other Books You May Enjoy