Qt 5 Blueprints

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Design, build, and deploy cross-platform GUI projects using the amazingly powerful Qt 5 framework In Detail Qt is a cross-platform application development framework that provides great visual interfaces for users and intuitive APIs for developers. The current version, Qt 5, provides enormous modules, from threading to interface animations, to ease your pain when developing cross-platform applications. Starting with the basic concepts and fundamentals of Qt 5, Qt 5 Blueprints helps you get familiarized with the layouts and widgets of Qt as you build and debug a test application in Qt Creator. You will pick up the Qt design philosophy throughout the book, which will definitely help you to script your code in a more elegant manner. What You Will Learn Create graphical user interface applications with a customized layout and widgetsExplore how the Model-View-Controller architecture works and relevant classes in QtDevelop a configurable application that is able to save and restore its own settingsWrite both static and dynamic plugins for Qt Widgets and Qt Quick applicationsConvert your single-threaded application to a nonblocking application by moving part of the application to another threadEnable your applications to support other languages dynamically Downloading the example code for this book. You can download the example code files for all Packt books you have purchased from your account at http://www.PacktPub.com. If you purchased this book elsewhere, you can visit http://www.PacktPub.com/support and register to have the files e-mailed directly to you. 1: Creating Your First Qt Application Creating a new project Changing the layout of widgets Understanding the mechanism of signals and slots Connecting two signals Creating a Qt Quick application Connecting C++ slots to QML signals Summary 2: Building a Beautiful Cross-platform Clock Creating a basic digital clock Tweaking the digital clock Saving and restoring settings Building on the Unix platforms Summary 3: Cooking an RSS Reader with Qt Quick Understanding model and view Parsing RSS Feeds by XmlListModel Tweaking the categories Utilizing ScrollView Adding BusyIndicator Making a frameless window Debugging QML Summary 4: Controlling Camera and Taking Photos Accessing the camera in Qt Controlling the camera Displaying errors on the status bar Permanent widgets in the status bar Utilizing the menu bar Using QFileDialog QML camera Summary 5: Extending Paint Applications with Plugins Drawing via QPainter Writing static plugins Writing dynamic plugins Merging plugins and main program projects Creating a C++ plugin for QML applications Summary 6: Getting Wired and Managing Downloads Introducing Qt network programming Utilizing QNetworkAccessManager Making use of the progress bar Writing multithreaded applications Managing a system network session Summary 7: Parsing JSON and XML Documents to Use Online APIs Setting up Qt for Android Parsing JSON results Parsing XML results Building Qt applications for Android Parsing JSON in QML Summary 8: Enabling Your Qt Application to Support Other Languages Internationalization of Qt applications Translating Qt Widgets applications Disambiguating identical texts Changing languages dynamically Translating Qt Quick applications Summary 9: Deploying Applications on Other Devices Releasing Qt applications on Windows Creating an installer Packaging Qt applications on Linux Deploying Qt applications on Android Summary 10: Don't Panic When You Encounter These Issues Commonly encountered issues Debugging Qt applications Debugging Qt Quick applications Useful resources Summary