The book of Qt 4 : the art of building Qt applications / Daniel Molkentin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Molkentin, Daniel.

Standardized Title:

Qt 4, Einführung in die Applikationsentwicklung. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Graphical user interfaces (Computer systems).

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Qt (Electronic resource).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (442 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Munich : Open Source Press ; San Francisco : No Starch Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.In The Book of Qt 4, Daniel Molkentin, a core developer of KDE, 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-base

Contents:

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 GtSql module

The graphics library "Arthur"

Input/output interfaces

Threading with QThread

Handling XML with QtXml

Internationalization

Debugging help

Tulip: containers and algorithms.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-59327-162-X

OCLC:

476124010