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Introduction To QT

Qt is a framework for building graphical user interfaces that allows developers to create applications for multiple desktop and mobile platforms. It features a powerful object model with signal and slot functionality for communication between objects. Qt uses an event-driven approach and includes timers, translation capabilities, and object hierarchies. Projects can be built with Qt using QMake or CMake build systems which handle preprocessing of the meta-object compiler.

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Introduction To QT

Qt is a framework for building graphical user interfaces that allows developers to create applications for multiple desktop and mobile platforms. It features a powerful object model with signal and slot functionality for communication between objects. Qt uses an event-driven approach and includes timers, translation capabilities, and object hierarchies. Projects can be built with Qt using QMake or CMake build systems which handle preprocessing of the meta-object compiler.

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Introduction to Qt

● Create powerful Graphics User Interfaces (GUI)


● Multi-platform : Windows, MacOs, Linux,
Symbian, Android…
● Complete framework : 2D and 3D graphics,
network, XML, SQL, …
● Widely used : Autodesk Maya, Adobe Photoshop
Elements, Skype, VLC Media Player, VirtualBox,
Mathematica, KDE…
The Qt Object Model
● a very powerful mechanism for seamless object communication called signals
and slots
● queryable and designable object properties
● powerful events and event filters
● contextual string translation for internationalization
● sophisticated interval driven timers that make it possible to elegantly integrate
many tasks in an event-driven GUI
● hierarchical and queryable object trees that organize object ownership in a
natural way
● guarded pointers (QPointer) that are automatically set to 0 when the
referenced object is destroyed, unlike normal C++ pointers which become
dangling pointers when their objects are destroyed
● a dynamic cast that works across library boundaries.
Signal and Slots
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.1/qtcore/signalsandslots.html

● Event-driven control
● Signals and slots are functions
with (matching) parameters
●
An object which emits a signal
neither knows nor cares which
slots (possibly many) receive
the signal
● a slot does not know if it has
any signals (possibly many)
connected to it
Simple example
● C++ counter class

● Qt counter
– Derives from QObject
– Code will be pre-
processed by Meta-
Object Compiler
(MOC)
Simple example (continued)
● Slot implementation

● Example of use
Building a Qt project

● Q_OBJECTs require a
MOC pass
● Widget descriptions (.ui)
require the generation
of .h and .cpp files
● Resources (.qrc) are
translated to .cpp

http://qt-quarterly.developpez.com/qq-34/cmake/

● QMake makes this


automatically
● Possible with CMake too
References
● Qt Documentation
– http://qt-project.org/doc/
– http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/how-to-learn-qt.html

● Other sources
– Nice tutorial :
http://fr.openclassrooms.com/informatique/cours/program

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