Book of Qt 4 The Art of Building Qt Applications

Name: Book of Qt 4 The Art of Building Qt Applications
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ISBN: 9781593271473

ISBN-10: 1593271476

ISBN-13: 9781593271473

Edition: 2007

Authors: Daniel Molkentin

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The Qt toolkit is widely used for the development of GUI applications as well as console tools and servers. Qt is most notably used in KDE, a free Linux desktop, the Opera web browser, Skype, and Google Earth. Daniel Molkentin, author of this book, is a core developer of KDE. He uses practical examples to explain Qt characteristics like the signal slot concept and its event system. He guides the reader through developing applications both with and without Qt's graphical GUI builder "Qt Designer." Topics covered include: tools needed to create dialog boxes; steps to follow when developing a GUI-based application; layout; how to visualize data using Qt's "model-view concept"; the QtSql model;…

Book details

List price: $54.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: No Starch Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/4/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.09" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

KDE core developer Daniel Molkentin has been an active developer with the KDE project since 2000, and has co-authored the PIM application Kontact, among others. He was actively involved in the development of Qt 4 as a beta tester, and worked with the initial port of KDE to the new Qt version.




Basics, Tools, and First Code



The Tools Needed to Create Dialogs



GUI Design Using the QT Designer



Developing a GUI Application Based on a Main Window



Laying Out Widgets



Dialogs



Events, Drag and Drop, and the Clipboard



Displaying Data Using "Interview"



The QtSql Module



The Graphics Library "Arthur"



Input Output Interfaces



Threading with QThread



Handling XML with QtXml



Internationalization