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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Design Patterns and Qt 4 | |
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| C++ Introduction | |
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| Overview of C++ | |
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| A Brief History of C++ | |
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| C++ First Example | |
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| Standard Input and Output | |
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| Introduction to Functions | |
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| qmake, Project Files, and Makefile | |
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| Getting Help Online | |
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| Strings | |
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| Streams | |
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| File Streams | |
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| Qt Dialogs for User Input/Output | |
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| Identifiers, Types, and Literals | |
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| C++ Simple Types | |
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| The Keyword const | |
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| Pointers and Memory Access | |
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| Reference Variables | |
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| Const* and *const | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Top of the class | |
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| First, There Was struct | |
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| Class Definitions | |
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| Member Access Specifiers | |
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| Encapsulation | |
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| Introduction to UML | |
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| Friends of a Class | |
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| Constructors | |
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| Destructors | |
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| The Keyword static | |
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| Class Declarations and Definitions | |
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| Copy Constructors and Assignment Operators | |
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| Conversions | |
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| Const Member Functions | |
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| Subobjects | |
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| Exercise: Classes | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Introduction to Qt | |
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| Style Guidelines, Naming Conventions | |
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| The Qt Core Module | |
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| QtCreator--;An IDE for Qt Programming | |
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| Exercises: Introduction to Qt | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Lists | |
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| Introduction to Containers | |
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| Iterators | |
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| Relationships | |
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| Exercise: Relationships | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Functions | |
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| Overloading Functions | |
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| Optional Arguments | |
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| Operator Overloading | |
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| Parameter Passing by Value | |
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| Parameter Passing by Reference | |
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| References to const | |
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| Function Return Values | |
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| Returning References from Functions | |
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| Overloading on const | |
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| Inline Functions | |
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| Functions with Variable-Length Argument Lists | |
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| Exercise: Encryption | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Inheritance and Polymorphism | |
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| Simple Derivation | |
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| Derivation with Polymorphism | |
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| Derivation from an Abstract Base Class | |
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| Inheritance Design | |
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| Overloading, Hiding, and Overriding | |
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| Constructors, Destructors, and Copy Assignment Operators | |
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| Processing Command-Line Arguments | |
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| Containers | |
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| Managed Containers, Composites, and Aggregates | |
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| Containers of Pointers | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Libraries and Design Patterns | |
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| Building and Reusing Libraries | |
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| Exercise: Installing Libraries | |
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| Frameworks and Components | |
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| Design Patterns | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| QObject, QApplication, Signals, and Slots | |
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| Values and Objects | |
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| Composite Pattern: Parents and Children | |
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| QApplication and the Event Loop | |
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| Q_OBJECT and moc: A checklist | |
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| Signals and Slots | |
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| QObject Lifecycle | |
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| QTestLib | |
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| Exercises: QObject, QApplication, Signals, and Slots | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Widgets and Designer | |
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| Widget Categories | |
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| Designer Introduction | |
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| Dialogs | |
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| Form Layout | |
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| Icons, Images, and Resources | |
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| Layout of Widgets | |
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| Designer Integration with Code | |
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| Exercise: Input Forms | |
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| The Event Loop: Revisited | |
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| Paint Events, Drawing Images | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Main Windows and Actions | |
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| QActions, QMenus, and QMenuBars | |
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| Regions and QDockWidgets | |
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| QSettings: Saving and Restoring Application State | |
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| Clipboard and Data Transfer Operations | |
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| The Command Pattern | |
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| tr() and Internationalization | |
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| Exercises: Main Windows and Actions | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Generics and Containers | |
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| Generics and Templates | |
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| Generics, Algorithms, and Operators | |
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| Sorted Map Example | |
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| Function Pointers and Functors | |
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| Flyweight Pattern: Implicitly Shared Classes | |
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| Exercise: Generics | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Meta Objects, Properties, and Reflective Programming | |
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| QMetaObject--;The MetaObject Pattern | |
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| Type Identification and qobject_cast | |
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| Q_PROPERTY Macro--;Describing QObject Properties | |
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| QVariant Class: Accessing Properties | |
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| Dynamic Properties | |
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| MetaTypes, Declaring, and Registering | |
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| invokeMethod() | |
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| Exercises: Reflection | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Models and Views | |
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| Model-View-Controller (MVC) | |
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| Qt Models and Views | |
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| Table Models | |
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| Tree Models | |
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| Smarter Pointers | |
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| Exercises: Models and Views | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Validation and Regular Expressions | |
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| Input Masks | |
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| Validators | |
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| Regular Expressions | |
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| Regular Expression Validation | |
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| Subclassing QValidator | |
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| Exercises: Validation and Regular Expressions | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Parsing XML | |
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| The Qt XML Parsers | |
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| SAX Parsing | |
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| XML, Tree Structures, and DOM | |
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| XML Streams | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| More Design Patterns | |
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| Creational Patterns | |
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| Memento Pattern | |
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| Fa�ade Pattern | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Concurrency | |
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| QProcess and Process Control | |
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| QThread and QtConcurrent | |
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| Exercises: QThread and QtConcurrent | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Database Programming | |
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| QSqlDatabase: Connecting to SQL from Qt | |
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| Queries and Result Sets | |
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| Database Models | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| C++ Language Reference | |
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| Types and Expressions | |
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| Operators | |
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| Statements and Control Structures | |
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| Evaluation of Logical Expressions | |
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| Enumerations | |
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| Signed and Unsigned Integral Types | |
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| Standard Expression Conversions | |
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| Explicit Conversions | |
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| Safer Typecasting Using ANSI C++ Typecasts | |
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| Overloading Special Operators | |
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| Runtime Type Identification | |
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| Member Selection Operators | |
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| Exercises: Types and Expressions | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Scope and Storage Class | |
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| Declarations and Definitions | |
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| Identifier Scope | |
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| Storage Class | |
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| Namespaces | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Memory Access | |
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| Pointer Pathology | |
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| Further Pointer Pathology with Heap Memory | |
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| Memory Access Summary | |
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| Introduction to Arrays | |
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| Pointer Arithmetic | |
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| Arrays, Functions, and Return Values | |
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| Different Kinds of Arrays | |
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| Valid Pointer Operations | |
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| Arrays and Memory: Important Points | |
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| Exercises: Memory Access | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Inheritance in Detail | |
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| Virtual Pointers, virtual Tables | |
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| Polymorphism and virtual Destructors | |
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| Multiple Inheritance | |
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| Public, protected, and private Derivation | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Programming Assignments | |
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| MP3 Jukebox Assignments | |
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| Phonon/MultiMediaKit Setup | |
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| Playlist | |
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| Playlists | |
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| Source Selector | |
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| Database Playlists | |
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| Star Delegates | |
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| Sorting, Filtering, and Editing Playlists | |
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| C++ Reserved Keywords | |
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| Standard Headers | |
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| Development Tools | |
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| Alan�s Quick Start Guide to Debian for Programmers | |
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| C++/Qt Setup | |