Advanced QT programming : creating great software with C++ and QT 4

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Summerfield, Mark, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qt (Electronic resource).

Graphical user interfaces (Computer systems).

C++ (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv, 256 p.) : ill.

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Prentice Hall 2011

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Master Qt’s Most Powerful APIs, Patterns, and Development Practices Qt has evolved into a remarkably powerful solution for cross-platform desktop, Web, and mobile development. However, even the most experienced Qt programmers only use a fraction of its capabilities. Moreover, practical information about Qt’s newest features has been scarce—until now. Advanced Qt Programming shows developers exactly how to take full advantage of Qt 4.5’s and Qt 4.6’s most valuable new APIs, application patterns, and development practices. Authored by Qt expert Mark Summerfield, this book concentrates on techniques that offer the most power and flexibility with the least added complexity. Summerfield focuses especially on model/view and graphics/view programming, hybrid desktop/Web applications, threading, and applications incorporating media and rich text. Throughout, he presents realistic, downloadable code examples, all tested on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux using Qt 4.6 (and most tested on Qt 4.5) and designed to anticipate future versions of Qt. The book Walks through using Qt with WebKit to create innovative hybrid desktop/Internet applications Shows how to use the Phonon framework to build powerful multimedia applications Presents state-of-the-art techniques for using model/view table and tree models, QStandardItemModels, delegates, and views, and for creating custom table and tree models, delegates, and views Explains how to write more effective threaded programs with the QtConcurrent module and with the QThread class Includes detailed coverage of creating rich text editors and documents Thoroughly covers graphics/view programming: architecture, windows, widgets, layouts, scenes, and more Introduces Qt 4.6’s powerful animation and state machine frameworks Source code provided for this title.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Tables

Foreword

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Hybrid Desktop/Internet Applications

Internet-Aware Widgets

Using WebKit

A Generic Web Browser Window Component

Creating Web Site-Specific Applications

Embedding Qt Widgets in Web Pages

Chapter 2. Audio and Video

Using QSound and QMovie

The Phonon Multimedia Framework

Playing Music

Playing Videos

Chapter 3. Model/View Table Models

Qt's Model/View Architecture

Using QStandardItemModels for Tables

Changing a Table Model through the User Interface

A QStandardItemModel Subclass for Tables

A QSortFilterProxyModel to Filter Out Duplicate Rows

A QSortFilterProxyModel to Filter In Wanted Rows

Creating Custom Table Models

A CustomQAbstractTableModel Subclass for Tables

Chapter 4. Model/View Tree Models

Using QStandardItemModels for Trees

Changing a Tree Model through the User Interface

A QStandardItem Subclass for Tree Items

A QStandardItemModel Subclass for Trees

Creating Custom Tree Models

A Custom Item Class for Tree Items

A CustomQAbstractItemModel Subclass for Trees

Chapter 5. Model/View Delegates

Datatype-Specific Editors

Datatype-Specific Delegates

A Read-Only Column or Row Delegate

An Editable Column or Row Delegate

Model-Specific Delegates

Chapter 6. Model/View Views

QAbstractItemView Subclasses

Model-Specific Visualizing Views

The Visualizer Widget

The Visualizer's Aggregated Header Widget

The Visualizer's Aggregated View Widget

Chapter 7. Threading with QtConcurrent

Executing Functions in Threads

Using QtConcurrent::run()

Using QRunnable

Filtering and Mapping in Threads

Using QtConcurrent to Filter.

Using QtConcurrent to Filter and Reduce

Using QtConcurrent to Map

Chapter 8. Threading with QThread

Processing Independent Items

Processing Shared Items

Chapter 9. Creating Rich Text Editors

Introducing QTextDocument

Creating CustomText Editors

Completion for Line Edits and Comboboxes

Completion and Syntax Highlighting for Text Editors

A Rich Text Single Line Editor

Multi-line Rich Text Editing

Chapter 10. Creating Rich Text Documents

Exported QTextDocument File Quality

Creating QTextDocuments

Creating QTextDocuments with HTML

Creating QTextDocuments with QTextCursor

Exporting and Printing Documents

Exporting QTextDocuments

Printing and Previewing QTextDocuments

Painting Pages

Painting PDF or PostScript

Painting SVG

Painting Pixmaps

Chapter 11. Creating Graphics/View Windows

The Graphics/View Architecture

Graphics/View Widgets and Layouts

Introducing Graphics Items

Chapter 12. Creating Graphics/View Scenes

Scenes, Items, and Actions

Creating the Main Window

Saving, Loading, Printing, and Exporting Scenes

Manipulating Graphics Items

Enhancing QGraphicsView

Creating a Dock Widget Toolbox

Creating Custom Graphics Items

Enhancing QGraphicsTextItem

Enhancing an Existing Graphics Item

Creating a Custom Graphics Item from Scratch

Chapter 13. The Animation and State Machine Frameworks

Introducing the Animation Framework

Introducing the State Machine Framework

Combining Animations and State Machines

Epilogue

Selected Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-254).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612660139

9780132480161

0132480166

9781282660137

1282660136

9780132480154

0132480158

OCLC:

1027202491