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Author:   Jasmin Blanchette ,  Mark Summerfield
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Prentice Hall
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 18.30cm , Height: 4.40cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   1.402kg
ISBN:  

9780132354165

ISBN 10:   0132354160
Pages:   752
Publication Date:   21 February 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Series Editor's Note xiForeword xiiiPreface xvAcknowledgments xviiA Brief History of Qt xixPart I: Basic Qt 1. Getting Started 3Hello Qt 3 Making Connections 5 Laying Out Widgets 6 Using the Reference Documentation 10 2. Creating Dialogs 13Subclassing QDialog 13 Signals and Slots in Depth 20 Rapid Dialog Design 23 Shape-Changing Dialogs 31 Dynamic Dialogs 38 Built-in Widget and Dialog Classes 39 3. Creating Main Windows 45Subclassing QMain Window 46 Creating Menus and Toolbars 50 Setting Up the Status Bar 55 Implementing the File Menu 57 Using Dialogs 63 Storing Settings 69 Multiple Documents 71 Splash Screens 74 4. Implementing Application Functionality 77The Central Widget 77 Subclassing QTableWidget 78 Loading and Saving 84 Implementing the Edit Menu 87 Implementing the Other Menus 91 Subclassing QTableWidget Item 95 5. Creating Custom Widgets 105Customizing QtWidgets 105 Subclassing QWidget 107 Integrating Custom Widgets with QtDesigner 117 Double Buffering 121 Part II: Intermediate Qt 6. Layout Management 141Laying Out Widgets on a Form 141 Stacked Layouts 147 Splitters 149 Scrolling Areas 152 Dock Windows and Toolbars 154 Multiple Document Interface 157 7. Event Processing 167 Reimplementing Event Handlers 167 Installing Event Filters 172 Staying Responsive during Intensive Processing 175 8. 2D Graphics 179Painting with QPainter 180 Coordinate System Transformations 185 High-Quality Rendering with QImage 193 Item-Based Rendering with Graphics View 195 Printing 217 9. Drag and Drop 227Enabling Drag and Drop 227 Supporting Custom Drag Types 232 Clipboard Handling 237 10. Item View Classes 239Using the Item View Convenience Classes 240 Using Predefined Models 247 Implementing Custom Models 252 Implementing Custom Delegates 266 11. Container Classes 273Sequential Containers 274 Associative Containers 282 Generic Algorithms 285 Strings, Byte Arrays, and Variants 287 12. Input/Output 295Reading and Writing Binary Data 296 Reading and Writing Text 301 Traversing Directories 307 Embedding Resources 308 Inter-Process Communication 309 13. Databases 315Connecting and Querying 316 Viewing Tables 322 Editing Records Using Forms 324 Presenting Data in Tabular Forms 330 14. Multithreading 339Creating Threads 340 Synchronizing Threads 343 Communicating with the Main Thread 349 Using Qt's Classes in Secondary Threads 356 15. Networking 359Writing FTP Clients 359 Writing HTTP Clients 368 Writing TCP Client-Server Applications 371 Sending and Receiving UDP Datagrams 381 16. XML 387Reading XML with QXmlStream Reader 388 Reading XML with DOM 395 Reading XML with SAX 400 Writing XML 404 17. Providing Online Help 407Tooltips, Status Tips, and ""What's This?"" Help 407 Using a Web Browser to Provide Online Help 409 Using QText Browser as a Simple Help Engine 411 Using QtAssistant for Powerful Online Help 414 Part III: Advanced Qt 18. Internationalization 419Working with Unicode 420 Making Applications Translation-Aware 423 Dynamic Language Switching 429 Translating Applications 435 19. Look and Feel Customization 439Using Qt Style Sheets 439 Subclassing QStyle 454 20. 3D Graphics 471Drawing Using OpenGL 471 Combining OpenGL and QPainter 477 Doing Overlays Using Framebuffer Objects 484 21. Creating Plugins 491Extending Qt with Plugins 492 Making Applications Plugin-Aware 502 Writing Application Plugins 505 22. Application Scripting 509Overview of the ECMA Script Language 510 Extending Qt Applications with Scripts 519 Implementing GUI Extensions Using Scripts 523 Automating Tasks through Scripting 530 23. Platform-Specific Features 543Interfacing with Native APIs 543 Using ActiveX on Windows 547 Handling X11 Session Management 559 24. Embedded Programming 567Getting Started with Qt/Embedded Linux 568 Customizing Qt/Embedded Linux 570 Integrating Qt Applications with Qtopia 571 Using Qtopia APIs 576 Appendixes A. Obtaining and Installing Qt 589B. Building Qt Applications 593C. Introduction to Qt Jambi 605D. Introduction to C++ for Java and C# Programmers 623Index 665"

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Jasmin Blanchette is a Trolltech senior software engineer and is writing his M.Sc. thesis in computer science at the University of Oslo. Mark Summerfield works as an independent trainer and consultant specializing in C++, Qt, Python, and PyQt, and is the author of Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt. Blanchette and Summerfield coauthored C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3 and the first edition of C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4.

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