A Book about Qt5

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Welcome to the online book of Qt5 Cadaques! Why Qt5? Because Qt5 is awesome! Why Cadaques? Because one of the authors had a great holiday in this rocky coastline in the north-east of Spain.

The entire collection of chapters covering Qt5 programming, written by Juergen Bocklage-Ryannel and Johan Thelin, is available here. All book content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 license and examples are licensed under the BSD license.

We are heavily working on this book and that means several things:

1. It’s not done. We will be releasing new chapters from time to time and updating existing chapters on the go.
2. We love your support. If you find any errors or have suggestions, please use our feedback system (the issues links). It will create a new ticket-entry in our ticket system and help us to keep track.
3. Be patient. We are working in our spare time on the book and we depend on the support of our companies and family.

Enjoy!

Content

• 1. Meet Qt 5
  • 1.1. Preface
  • 1.2. Qt 5 Introduction
  • 1.3. Qt Building Blocks
  • 1.4. Qt Project
• 2. Get Started
  • 2.1. Installing Qt 5 SDK
  • 2.2. Hello World
  • 2.3. Application Types
  • 2.4. Summary
• 3. Qt Creator IDE
  • 3.1. The User Interface
  • 3.2. Registering your Qt Kit
  • 3.3. Managing Projects
  • 3.4. Using the Editor
  • 3.5. Locator
  • 3.6. Debugging
  • 3.7. Shortcuts
• 4. Quick Starter
  • 4.1. QML Syntax
  • 4.2. Basic Elements
  • 4.3. Components
  • 4.4. Simple Transformations
  • 4.5. Positioning Elements
  • 4.6. Layout Items
  • 4.7. Input Elements
  • 4.8. Advanced Techniques
• 5. Fluid Elements
  • 5.1. Animations
  • 5.2. States and Transitions
  • 5.3. Advanced Techniques
• 6. Qt Quick Controls 2
  • 6.1. Introduction to Controls
  • 6.2. An Image Viewer
  • 6.3. Common Patterns
  • 6.4. The Imagine Style
  • 6.5. Summary
• 7. Model-View-Delegate
  • 7.1. Concept
  • 7.2. Basic Models
  • 7.3. Dynamic Views
  • 7.4. Delegate
  • 7.5. Advanced Techniques
  • 7.6. Summary
• 8. Canvas Element
  • 8.1. Convenient API
  • 8.2. Gradients
  • 8.3. Shadows
  • 8.4. Images
  • 8.5. Transformation
  • 8.6. Composition Modes
  • 8.7. Pixel Buffers
  • 8.8. Canvas Paint
  • 8.9. Porting from HTML5 Canvas
• 9. Particle Simulations
  • 9.1. Concept
  • 9.2. Simple Simulation
  • 9.3. Particle Parameters
  • 9.4. Directed Particles
  • 9.5. Particle Painters
  • 9.6. Affecting Particles
  • 9.7. Particle Groups
  • 9.8. Summary
• 10. Shader Effects
  • 10.1. OpenGL Shaders
  • 10.2. Shader Elements
  • 10.3. Fragment Shaders
  • 10.4. Wave Effect
  • 10.5. Vertex Shader
  • 10.6. Curtain Effect
  • 10.7. Qt GraphicsEffect Library
• 11. Multimedia
  • 11.1. Playing Media
  • 11.2. Sound Effects
  • 11.3. Video Streams
  • 11.4. Capturing Images
  • 11.5. Advanced Techniques
  • 11.6. Summary
• 12. Networking
  • 12.1. Serving UI via HTTP
  • 12.2. Templating
  • 12.3. HTTP Requests
  • 12.4. Local files
  • 12.5. REST API
  • 12.6. Authentication using OAuth
  • 12.7. Web Sockets
  • 12.8. Summary
• 13. Storage
  • 13.1. Settings
  • 13.2. Local Storage - SQL
  • 13.3. Other Storage APIs
• 14. Dynamic QML
  • 14.1. Loading Components Dynamically
  • 14.2. Creating and Destroying Objects
  • 14.3. Tracking Dynamic Objects
  • 14.4. Summary
• 15. JavaScript
  • 15.1. Browser/HTML vs QtQuick/QML
  • 15.2. The Language
  • 15.3. JS Objects
  • 15.4. Creating a JS Console
• 16. Qt and C++
  • 16.1. A Boilerplate Application
  • 16.2. The QObject
  • 16.3. Build Systems
  • 16.4. Common Qt Classes
  • 16.5. Models in C++
• 17. Extending QML with C++
  • 17.1. Understanding the QML Run-time
  • 17.2. Plugin Content
  • 17.3. Creating the plugin
  • 17.4. FileIO Implementation
  • 17.5. Using FileIO
  • 17.6. Summary
• 18. Qt for Python
  • 18.1. Introduction
  • 18.2. Installing
  • 18.3. Building an Application
  • 18.4. Limitations
  • 18.5. Summary

Assets

The assets contain all files for reading the book offline and also the chapter examples as a downloadable format.

Offline Books

• Book as eBook
• Book as PDF

Source Code Examples

• Chapter 1 examples (ch01-meetqt-assets.tgz)
• Chapter 4 examples (ch04-qmlstart-assets.tgz)
• Chapter 5 examples (ch05-fluid-assets.tgz)
• Chapter 6 examples (ch06-controls-assets.tgz)
• Chapter 7 examples (ch07-modelview-assets.tgz)
• Chapter 8 examples (ch08-canvas-assets.tgz)
• Chapter 9 examples (ch09-particles-assets.tgz)
• Chapter 10 examples (ch10-shaders-assets.tgz)
• Chapter 11 examples (ch11-multimedia-assets.tgz)
• Chapter 12 examples (ch12-networking-assets.tgz)
• Chapter 13 examples (ch13-storage-assets.tgz)
• Chapter 14 examples (ch14-dynamicqml-assets.tgz)
• Chapter 15 examples (ch15-javascript-assets.tgz)
• Chapter 16 examples (ch16-qtcpp-assets.tgz)
• Chapter 17 examples (ch17-extensions-assets.tgz)
• Chapter 18 examples (ch18-python-assets.tgz)

Chapter Queue

The chapter queue is the chapters we are working on. They might be almost ready or in an infant state. Give it a try if you like.

• 1. Testing
• 2. Deploying QML Applications
• 3. Drag and Drop