Qt5 Blueprints [Paperback]

Design, build, and deploy cross-platform GUI projects using the amazingly powerful Qt 5 framework

About This Book

• Develop native graphical applications that can run anywhere with one of the world's best open-source frameworks
• Learn all about signals, slots, models, and views to design a robust structure for your application
• A comprehensive tutorial with step-by-step instructions to help you extend your applications across a wide domain

Who This Book Is For

If you are a programmer looking for a truly cross-platform GUI framework to help you save your time by side-stepping the incompatibility between different platforms and building applications using Qt 5 for multiple targets, then this book is most certainly intended for you. It is assumed that you have a basic programming experience of C++ and fundamental knowledge about Qt.

In Detail

Qt is a cross-platform application development framework that provides great visual interfaces for users and intuitive APIs for developers. The current version, Qt 5, provides enormous modules, from threading to interface animations, to ease your pain when developing cross-platform applications.

Starting with the basic concepts and fundamentals of Qt 5, Qt 5 Blueprints helps you get familiarized with the layouts and widgets of Qt as you build and debug a test application in Qt Creator. You will pick up the Qt design philosophy throughout the book, which will definitely help you to script your code in a more elegant manner.