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Practical recipes for building cross-platform GUI applications,
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Lee Zhi Eng
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Table of Contents
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Preface 1
Chapter 1: Look-and-Feel Customization with Qt Designer 7
Introduction 7
Technical requirements 7
Using style sheets with Qt Designer 8
How to do it… 8
How it works... 10
There's more… 12
Customizing basic style sheets 13
How to do it… 13
How it works... 18
Creating a login screen using style sheets 18
How to do it… 18
How it works... 27
Using resources in style sheets 27
How to do it 27
How it works... 32
Customizing properties and sub-controls 32
How to do it… 32
How it works... 36
Styling in Qt Modeling Language (QML) 37
How to do it… 38
How it works... 47
Exposing the QML object pointer to C++ 48
How to do it… 48
How it works... 51
Chapter 2: Event Handling - Signals and Slots 52
Introduction 52
Technical requirements 53
New signals and slots syntax 53
How to do it... 53
How it works... 59
UI events with signals and slots 60
How to do it... 60
How it works... 67
Asynchronous programming made easier 67
How to do it... 67
How it works... 70
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Function callbacks 71
How to do it... 71
How it works... 73
Chapter 3: States and Animations with Qt and QML 74
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Introduction 74
Technical requirements 74
Property animation in Qt 75
How to do it… 75
How it works... 76
There's more… 77
Using easing curves to control property animation 78
How to do it… 78
How it works... 79
There's more… 80
Creating an animation group 81
How to do it… 81
How it works... 82
There's more… 83
Creating a nested animation group 83
How to do it… 84
How it works... 86
State machines in Qt 86
How to do it… 87
How it works... 89
There's more… 90
States, transitions, and animations in QML 90
How to do it… 91
How it works... 94
There's more… 94
Animating widget properties using animators 95
How to do it… 95
How it works... 96
Sprite animation 97
How to do it… 97
How it works... 100
There's more… 101
Chapter 4: QPainter and 2D Graphics 102
Introduction 102
Technical requirements 103
Drawing basic shapes onscreen 103
How to do it… 103
How it works... 106
There's more… 107
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Exporting shapes to SVG files 107
How to do it… 107
How it works... 112
There's more… 113
Coordinate transformation 113
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How to do it… 113
How it works... 116
There's more… 117
Displaying images onscreen 119
How to do it… 119
How it works... 121
There's more… 122
Applying image effects to graphics 124
How to do it… 124
How it works... 127
There's more… 128
Creating a basic paint program 128
How to do it… 129
How it works... 134
Rendering a 2D canvas in QML 135
How to do it… 135
Chapter 5: OpenGL Implementation 140
Introduction 140
Technical requirements 141
Setting up OpenGL in Qt 141
How to do it… 141
How it works... 142
There's more… 143
Hello World! 143
How to do it… 144
How it works... 148
Rendering 2D shapes 149
How to do it… 149
How it works... 152
Rendering 3D shapes 153
How to do it... 153
How it works... 157
Texturing in OpenGL 158
How to do it… 158
How it works... 161
Basic lighting in OpenGL 161
How to do it… 162
How it works... 165
Moving an object using keyboard controls 165
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How to do it… 165
How it works... 167
3D canvas in QML 167
How to do it… 167
How it works... 172
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Chapter 6: Using Network and Managing Large Documents 173
Introduction 173
Technical requirements 173
Creating a TCP server 174
How to do it… 174
How it works... 180
Creating a TCP client 181
How to do it... 182
How it works... 186
Uploading and downloading files using FTP 186
How to do it... 186
How it works... 199
Chapter 7: Threading Basics - Asynchronous Programming 200
Introduction 200
Technical requirements 200
Using threads 201
How to do it… 201
How it works... 204
QObject and QThread 204
How to do it… 205
How it works... 209
Data protection and sharing data between threads 209
How to do it… 210
How it works... 213
Working with QRunnable processes 214
How to do it… 214
How it works... 216
Chapter 8: Building a Touch Screen Application with Qt5 217
Introduction 217
Technical requirements 218
Setting up Qt for mobile applications 218
How to do it… 218
How it works… 224
Designing a basic user interface with QML 225
How to do it… 225
How it works… 231
Touch events 233
How to do it… 233
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