A sample
chapter is available free from InformIT—click "Sample Content" and then "Download
the sample pages".
This 550 page book is aimed at existing C++/Qt programmers and presents
ideas and techniques that are too advanced or specialized (although not
necessarily difficult), for a first book on Qt.
Qt has now grown to over 700 classes and well over a million words of
documentation, far too much to cover in a single volume. So instead of
covering everything very thinly, the book focuses on key areas of Qt
technology and tries to provide more comprehensive coverage than is
available elsewhere.
The book is completely practical in emphasis, with every technique
illustrated by working code. The examples show Qt best practices. They
have been tested on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows, using
Qt 4.6, and where possible (e.g., using #if QT_VERSION),
Qt 4.5. In addition they have been tested on Linux using
Qt 4.8 and Qt 4.7 (which versions should also be fine for Mac
OS X and Windows).
The book's main themes are hybrid desktop/Internet applications,
threading, rich text handling, Qt's graphics/view architecture, and Qt's
model/view architecture (to which four chapters are devoted), although
many other topics are covered. Besides each chapter's main subject,
lots of other classes, methods, and techniques are used wherever they
make sense, to show as many Qt features as possible. So even the most
experienced Qt programmer should discover aspects of Qt they weren't
aware of, discover new techniques, and be inspired with new ideas.
The book can be bought from
amazon (#ad)
and other online and local book stores.
Only the printed editions in English are definitive—although available in
electronic formats, "ebooks" usually restrict your rights, and they are
often retypeset which can introduce errors. A legal PDF version is
available from InformIT.
Translations are arranged by the publisher and their quality can vary
considerably.
Downloads
The source code is available in two formats,
aqpbook.tar.gz (1.2MB suitable for any
platform), and
aqpbook.zip (1.3MB Windows line
endings)
[updated 2011-02-21].
The source code includes the Alt_Key
library. There is also an Errata[updated 2014-01-06].
Walter Dale has ported almost all of the book's examples to Qt 5.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Eirik Chambe-Eng
Introduction
Chapter 1. Hybrid Desktop/Internet Applications
Internet-Aware Widgets
Using WebKit
Chapter 2. Audio and Video
Using QSound and QMovie
The Phonon Multimedia Framework
Chapter 3. Model/View Table Models
Qt's Model/View Architecture
Using QStandardItemModels for Tables
Creating Custom Table Models
Chapter 4. Model/View Tree Models
Using QStandardItemModels for Trees
Creating Custom Tree Models
Chapter 5. Model/View Delegates
Datatype-Specific Editors
Datatype-Specific Delegates
Model-Specific Delegates
Chapter 6. Model/View Views—This is available as a sample
chapter—click "Sample Content" and then "Download
the sample pages".
QAbstractItemView Subclasses
Model-Specific Visualizing Views
Chapter 7. Threading with QtConcurrent
Executing Functions in Threads
Filtering and Mapping in Threads
Chapter 8. Threading with QThread
Processing Independent Items
Processing Shared Items
Chapter 9. Creating Rich Text Editors
Introducing QTextDocument
Creating Custom Text Editors
A Rich Text Single Line Editor
Multiline Rich Text Editing
Chapter 10. Creating Rich Text Documents
Exported QTextDocument File Quality
Creating QTextDocuments
Exporting and Printing Documents
Painting Pages
Chapter 11. Creating Graphics/View Windows
The Graphics/View Architecture
Graphics/View Widgets and Layouts
Introducing Graphics Items
Chapter 12. Creating Graphics/View Scenes
Scenes, Items, and Actions
Enhancing QGraphicsView
Creating a Dock Widget Toolbox
Creating Custom Graphics Items
Chapter 13. The Animation and State Machine Frameworks
Introducing the Animation Framework
Introducing the State Machine Framework
Combining Animations and State Machines
Epilogue
Selected Bibliography
Index
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