Application Development With Qt Creator · 2nd Edition by Rischpater, Ray -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Application Development with Qt Creator Second Edition

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Preface

What this book covers What you need for this book Who this book is for Conventions Reader feedback Customer support

Downloading the example code Errata Piracy Questions

1. Getting Started with Qt Creator

Downloading Qt and Qt Creator Finding your way around Qt Creator Your first application – Hello World Hello World using the QtGui library Hello World using Qt Quick Summary

2. Building Applications with Qt Creator

Getting started – our sample library Learning the landscape – the Build menu and the .pro files Linking against our sample library Getting lost and found again – debugging

Setting breakpoints and stepping through your program Examining variables and memory Examining the call stack

The Projects pane and building your project A review – running and debugging your application Summary

3. Designing Your Application with Qt Designer

Code interlude – signals and slots Creating forms in Qt Designer

Creating the main form Using application resources

Instantiating forms, message boxes, and dialogs in your application Wiring the Qt Widgets' application logic

Learning more about Qt Widgets

Code interlude – Qt Quick and the QML syntax Creating Qt Quick applications in Qt Designer

Creating a reusable button The calculator's main view Learning more about Qt Quick and QML

Summary

4. Qt Foundations

Representing data using Qt's core classes

Working with key-value pairs

Multithreading in Qt Accessing files using Qt Accessing HTTP resources using Qt

Performing HTTP requests

Parsing XML using Qt

Using XML parsing with HTTP Implementing WorkerThread

Summary

5. Developing Applications with Qt Widgets

Your main application and its menus Simple Qt Widgets Managing the widget layout with layouts Model-view-controller programming with Qt

Analyzing a concrete model subclass

Rendering web content with QWebView Summary

6. Drawing with Qt

What we need to start drawing with Qt Drawing with QPainter on QPaintDevice instances Drawing off screen Creating custom widgets The Graphics View Framework Summary

7. Doing More with Qt Quick

The fundamental concepts of Qt Quick States and transitions in Qt Quick Integrating Qt Quick and C++ Putting it all together – an image gallery application Summary

8. Multimedia and Qt Quick

Multimedia in Qt Playing audio clips and sound effects Playing video clips Accessing the camera Summary

9. Sensors and Qt Quick

Sensors in Qt Determining the device location Obtaining a device's position – a simple example Summary

10. Localizing Your Application with Qt Linguist

Understanding the task of localization Marking strings for localization Localizing your application with QLinguist Including localized strings in your application Localizing special parameters – currencies and dates with QLocale Summary

11. Optimizing Performance with Qt Creator

The QML performance analyzer

QtSlowButton – a Qt Quick application in need of performance tuning

Finding memory leaks with Valgrind

QtLeakyButton – a Qt C++ application in need of memory help

Summary

12. Developing Mobile Applications with Qt Creator

A mobile software development primer

User attention is at a premium Computational resources are at a premium Network resources are at a premium Storage resources are at a premium To port or not to port? A word on testing

Setting up Qt Creator for Android

Downloading all the pieces Setting environment variables Finishing the Android SDK installation Configuring Qt Creator Building and running your application

Supporting other mobile platforms Summary

13. Qt Tips and Tricks

Writing console applications with Qt Creator Integrating Qt Creator with version control systems Configuring the coding style and coding format options Building projects from the command line Setting the Qt Quick window display options Learning more about Qt Debugging Qt's signal-slot connections Summary

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