Advanced Qt Programming (PDF)

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 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 4.6's most valuable new APIs, application patterns, and development practices. Authored by world-renowned Qt expert Mark Summerfield, this book focuses on the 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 thoroughly tested for Qt 4.6 and designed to anticipate future versions of Qt.

The book

• Walks through using Qt with WebKit to create robust hybrid desktop/Internet applications
• Shows how to use the Phonon framework to build powerful media applications without managing low-level details
• Presents state-of-the-art techniques for working with model/view table and tree models, delegates, and views
• Explains how to write more effective threaded programs with QtConcurrent and QThread
• Includes detailed coverage of creating rich text editors and documents
• Thoroughly covers graphics/view programming: architecture, windows, widgets, layouts, scenes, and more
• Introduces Qt's powerful animation and state machine frameworks