Practical Qt

Qt is a multiplatform, C++ application framework that lets developers write one application that will run - natively - on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, and embedded Linux with a simple recompile. The platform-independent GUI toolkit Qt, developed by the Norwegian company Trolltech, makes great inroads into the programming market, but there is by far not yet a third-party market that could compare to the MFC or Java markets. Therefore, it is not easy to find information about advanced subjects or solutions to common problems. This gap is what this book tries to fill. It contains more than 80 solutions to common problems. All solutions have the same structure: problem description - solution description - runnable code. The solutions are sorted by subject (user-defined graphics, working with UI elements, working with databases, network programming, etc.), which makes random access possible. The book is thus suitable both for a quick lookup and for reading cover-to-cover. A particular feature of this book is the fact that all solutions stem from the daily work of the developers at Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB as Qt developers, consultants and teachers. This makes the various subjects immediately relevant for other Qt developers. The book is written for Qt 3 and 4 and is targeted at Qt developers who have made it beyond the first steps and want to use Qt productively.