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Advanced Qt Programming: Creating Great Software with C++ and Qt 4
- By Mark Summerfield
- Published Jul 11, 2010 by Prentice Hall.
- Copyright 2011
- Dimensions: 7 X 9-1/8
- Pages: 560
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-321-63590-6
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-63590-7
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Product Author Bios
Mark Summerfield is an independent trainer, consultant, technical editor, and writer specializing in Qt, PyQt, Python, and C++. Prior to launching his firm, Qtrac Ltd., he spent many years working as a programmer, software consultant, technical writer, and editor. His books include Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt; C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4, Second Edition (with Jasmin Blanchette); and Programming in Python 3. Summerfield created Sandbox, an open source GUI application for experimenting with Python. He graduated with first class honors in Computer Science from the University of Wales Swansea, UK
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
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
very good book,the only qt book, By
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This book focus on what is essential and important using QT.For example the model view architecture using desktop widget but also graphical widget,state machine animation framework are very well explain and precise. The code provided simply work. I think reader of this book can really save some time during the learning process.It s also a book that you can read close to your qt creator open to experiment each notion explained by Mark.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This review is from: Advanced Qt Programming: Creating Great Software with C++ and Qt 4 (Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series) (Hardcover)
An excellent overview of some of the advanced features of QT, such as displaying web pages, playing multimedia, and multi-threaded programming. I've been using QT professionally for a couple of years now, but I still learnt a great deal from this book.The writing style is friendly and informal, and all the explanatory text is easy to understand. All of the example programs worked perfectly, with one minor exception: the 'weather tray icon' app did not display properly -- perhaps because I was running Ubuntu 12.04, whereas the app had been tested on Fedora. (I could not, in good conscience, deduct a star from this book's rating because of that: making apps that work on every variant of Linux is an impossible task :) ).
14 of 19 people found the following review helpful
this book is a "must have" for a Qt developper,
This review is from: Advanced Qt Programming: Creating Great Software with C++ and Qt 4 (Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series) (Hardcover)
After reading his previous book ("C++ GUI Programming With Qt 4") I order this Mark Summerfield new opus as soon as it has been published and I really enjoy reading it. It learn me some tips and tricks during all chapters. It explain clearly some points which are difficult to master with true life samples. Here comes (Model / View, Phonon, Webkit...)Mark have answered some questions I ask him by mail on his book. That's really nice from him to be available to his readers ! You're great Mark... So if you want to discover or go deeper in Qt, go reading this book now ! Stephane |
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Advanced Qt Programming: Model/View Views
Table of Contents
List of Tables xiii
Foreword xv
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: Hybrid Desktop/Internet Applications 5
Internet-Aware Widgets 6
Using WebKit 21
Chapter 2: Audio and Video 53
Using QSound and QMovie 54
The Phonon Multimedia Framework 60
Chapter 3: Model/View Table Models 87
Qt’s Model/View Architecture 88
Using QStandardItemModels for Tables 90
Creating Custom Table Models 113
Chapter 4: Model/View Tree Models 129
Using QStandardItemModels for Trees 130
Creating Custom Tree Models 151
Chapter 5: Model/View Delegates 185
Datatype-Specific Editors 186
Datatype-Specific Delegates 188
Model-Specific Delegates 201
Chapter 6: Model/View Views 207
QAbstractItemView Subclasses 208
Model-Specific Visualizing Views 224
Chapter 7: Threading with QtConcurrent 245
Executing Functions in Threads 248
Filtering and Mapping in Threads 261
Chapter 8: Threading with QThread 287
Processing Independent Items 287
Processing Shared Items 302
Chapter 9: Creating Rich Text Editors 317
Introducing QTextDocument 318
Creating Custom Text Editors 320
A Rich Text Single Line Editor 342
Multi-line Rich Text Editing 353
Chapter 10: Creating Rich Text Documents 359
Exported QTextDocument File Quality 361
Creating QTextDocuments 364
Exporting and Printing Documents 371
Painting Pages 379
Chapter 11: Creating Graphics/View Windows 389
The Graphics/View Architecture 390
Graphics/View Widgets and Layouts 392
Introducing Graphics Items 399
Chapter 12: Creating Graphics/View Scenes 409
Scenes, Items, and Actions 411
Enhancing QGraphicsView 439
Creating a Dock Widget Toolbox 440
Creating Custom Graphics Items 447
Chapter 13: The Animation and State Machine Frameworks 469
Introducing the Animation Framework 469
Introducing the State Machine Framework 474
Combining Animations and State Machines 481
Epilogue 491
Selected Bibliography 495
Index 499
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