| Foreword | p. xv |
| About the Author | p. xvii |
| About the Technical Reviewer | p. xix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xxi |
| Getting to Know Qt | |
| The Qt Way of C++ | p. 3 |
| Installing a Qt Development Environment | p. 3 |
| Installing on Unix Platforms | p. 3 |
| Installing on Windows | p. 5 |
| Making C++ "Qt-er" | p. 6 |
| Inheriting Qt | p. 7 |
| Using a Qt String | p. 10 |
| Building a Qt Program | p. 11 |
| Signals, Slots, and Meta-Objects | p. 13 |
| Making the Connection | p. 16 |
| Revisiting the Build Process | p. 18 |
| Connection to Something New | p. 19 |
| Collections and Iterators | p. 21 |
| Iterating the QList | p. 21 |
| Filling the List | p. 24 |
| More Lists | p. 24 |
| Special Lists | p. 25 |
| Summary | p. 31 |
| Rapid Application Development Using Qt | p. 33 |
| The Sketch | p. 33 |
| Event-Driven Applications | p. 34 |
| Using Designer | p. 35 |
| From Designer to Code | p. 47 |
| The Final Touches | p. 53 |
| Summary | p. 54 |
| Widgets and Layouts | p. 55 |
| Creating Dialogs in Qt | p. 55 |
| Size Policies | p. 57 |
| Layouts | p. 60 |
| Common Widgets | p. 62 |
| QPushButton | p. 62 |
| QLabel | p. 64 |
| QLineEdit | p. 65 |
| QCheckBox | p. 66 |
| QRadioButton | p. 67 |
| QGroupBox | p. 68 |
| QListWidget | p. 69 |
| QComboBox | p. 71 |
| QSpinBox | p. 72 |
| QSlider | p. 73 |
| QProgressBar | p. 74 |
| Common Dialogs | p. 75 |
| Files | p. 75 |
| Messages | p. 79 |
| Even More Dialogs | p. 85 |
| Validating User Input | p. 86 |
| Validators | p. 87 |
| Summary | p. 93 |
| The Main Window | p. 95 |
| Windows and Documents | p. 95 |
| Single Document Interface | p. 96 |
| Multiple Document Interface | p. 103 |
| Comparing Single and Multiple Document Interfaces | p. 111 |
| Application Resources | p. 112 |
| Resource File | p. 112 |
| Project File | p. 114 |
| Application Icon | p. 114 |
| Dockable Widgets | p. 115 |
| Summary | p. 119 |
| The Qt Building Blocks | |
| The Model-View Framework | p. 123 |
| Showing Data by Using Views | p. 124 |
| Providing Headers | p. 127 |
| Limiting Editing | p. 127 |
| Limiting Selection Behavior | p. 127 |
| A Single Column List | p. 128 |
| Creating Custom Views | p. 129 |
| A Delegate for Drawing | p. 129 |
| Custom Editing | p. 132 |
| Creating Your Own Views | p. 135 |
| Creating Custom Models | p. 140 |
| A Read-Only Table Model | p. 141 |
| A Tree of Your Own | p. 144 |
| Editing the Model | p. 150 |
| Sorting and Filtering Models | p. 153 |
| Summary | p. 156 |
| Creating Widgets | p. 157 |
| Composing Widgets | p. 157 |
| Changing and Enhancing Widgets | p. 162 |
| Catching the Events | p. 164 |
| Creating Custom Widgets from Scratch | p. 171 |
| Your Widgets and Designer | p. 176 |
| Promotion | p. 176 |
| Providing a Plugin | p. 177 |
| Summary | p. 182 |
| Drawing and Printing | p. 183 |
| Drawing Widgets | p. 183 |
| The Drawing Operations | p. 184 |
| Transforming the Reality | p. 200 |
| Painting Widgets | p. 204 |
| The Graphics View | p. 215 |
| Interacting Using a Custom Item | p. 220 |
| Printing | p. 228 |
| OpenGL | p. 232 |
| Summary | p. 232 |
| Files, Streams, and XML | p. 235 |
| Working with Paths | p. 235 |
| Working with Files | p. 238 |
| Working with Streams | p. 239 |
| XML | p. 243 |
| DOM | p. 244 |
| Reading XML Files with SAX | p. 248 |
| Files and the Main Window | p. 250 |
| Summary | p. 255 |
| Providing Help | p. 257 |
| Creating Tooltips | p. 257 |
| Creating HTML-Formatted Tooltips | p. 259 |
| Inserting Images into Tooltips | p. 260 |
| Applying Multiple Tooltips to a Widget | p. 260 |
| Providing What's This Help Tips | p. 263 |
| Embedding Links into What's This Help Tips | p. 264 |
| Taking Advantage of the Status Bar | p. 267 |
| Creating Wizards | p. 269 |
| Assisting the User | p. 275 |
| Creating the Help Documentation | p. 275 |
| Putting It Together | p. 277 |
| Summary | p. 278 |
| Internationalization and Localization | p. 279 |
| Translating an Application | p. 279 |
| Extracting the Strings | p. 281 |
| Linguist: A Tool for Translating | p. 281 |
| Set Up a Translation Object | p. 284 |
| Qt Strings | p. 285 |
| Dealing with Other Translation Cases | p. 287 |
| Find the Missing Strings | p. 291 |
| Translating on the Fly | p. 292 |
| Other Considerations | p. 295 |
| Dealing with Text | p. 295 |
| Images | p. 296 |
| Numbers | p. 296 |
| Dates and Times | p. 298 |
| Help | p. 301 |
| Summary | p. 301 |
| Plugins | p. 303 |
| Plugin Basics | p. 303 |
| Extending Qt with Plugins | p. 304 |
| Creating an ASCII Art Plugin | p. 304 |
| Extending Your Application Using Plugins | p. 317 |
| Filtering Images | p. 317 |
| Merging the Plugin and the Application | p. 323 |
| A Factory Interface | p. 326 |
| Non-Qt Plugins | p. 329 |
| Summary | p. 332 |
| Doing Things in Parallel | p. 333 |
| Basic Threading | p. 333 |
| Building a Simple Threading Application | p. 334 |
| Synchronizing Safely | p. 336 |
| Protecting Your Data | p. 338 |
| Protected Counting | p. 339 |
| Locking for Reading and Writing | p. 341 |
| Sharing Resources Among Threads | p. 344 |
| Getting Stuck | p. 345 |
| Producers and Consumers | p. 347 |
| Signaling Across the Thread Barrier | p. 352 |
| Passing Strings Between Threads | p. 353 |
| Sending Your Own Types Between Threads | p. 356 |
| Threads, QObjects, and Rules | p. 359 |
| Pitfalls when Threading | p. 359 |
| The User Interface Thread | p. 360 |
| Working with Processes | p. 363 |
| Running uic | p. 363 |
| The Shell and Directions | p. 368 |
| Summary | p. 368 |
| Databases | p. 371 |
| A Quick Introduction to SQL | p. 371 |
| What Is a Database? | p. 371 |
| Inserting, Viewing, Modifying, and Deleting Data | p. 372 |
| More Tables Mean More Power | p. 375 |
| Counting and Calculating | p. 377 |
| Qt and Databases | p. 378 |
| Making the Connection | p. 378 |
| Querying Data | p. 380 |
| Establishing Several Connections | p. 382 |
| Putting It All Together | p. 382 |
| The Structure of the Application | p. 384 |
| The User Interface | p. 384 |
| The Database Class | p. 392 |
| Putting Everything Together | p. 397 |
| Model Databases | p. 398 |
| The Query Model | p. 399 |
| The Table Model | p. 399 |
| The Relational Table Model | p. 400 |
| Summary | p. 402 |
| Networking | p. 403 |
| Using the QtNetwork Module | p. 403 |
| Working with Client Protocols | p. 403 |
| Creating an FTP Client | p. 404 |
| Creating an HTTP Client | p. 417 |
| Sockets | p. 424 |
| Reliability's Role with UDP and TCP | p. 424 |
| Servers, Clients, and Peers | p. 425 |
| Sending Images Using TCP | p. 425 |
| Broadcasting Pictures Using UDP | p. 436 |
| Summary | p. 443 |
| Building Qt Projects | p. 445 |
| QMake | p. 445 |
| The QMake Project File | p. 445 |
| Working with Different Platforms | p. 450 |
| Building Libraries with QMake | p. 453 |
| Building Complex Projects with QMake | p. 454 |
| The CMake Build System | p. 457 |
| Managing a Simple Application with QMake | p. 457 |
| Working with Different Platforms | p. 461 |
| Building Libraries with CMake | p. 465 |
| Managing Complex Projects with CMake | p. 466 |
| Summary | p. 469 |
| Unit Testing | p. 471 |
| Unit Testing and Qt | p. 472 |
| The Structure of a Test | p. 472 |
| Testing Dates | p. 474 |
| Implementing the Tests | p. 475 |
| Data-Driven Testing | p. 479 |
| Testing Widgets | p. 483 |
| Testing a Spin Box | p. 483 |
| Driving Widgets with Data | p. 487 |
| Testing Signals | p. 490 |
| Testing for Real | p. 491 |
| The Interface | p. 492 |
| The Tests | p. 492 |
| Handling Deviations | p. 497 |
| Summary | p. 497 |
| Appendixes | |
| Third-Party Tools | p. 501 |
| Qt Widgets for Technical Applications: Qwt | p. 502 |
| wwWidgets | p. 503 |
| QDevelop | p. 504 |
| Edyuk | p. 505 |
| Containers, Types, and Macros | p. 507 |
| Containers | p. 507 |
| Sequences | p. 507 |
| Specialized Containers | p. 508 |
| Associative Containers | p. 509 |
| Types | p. 509 |
| Types by Size | p. 509 |
| The Variant Type | p. 510 |
| Macros and Functions | p. 511 |
| Treating Values | p. 511 |
| Random Values | p. 511 |
| Iterating | p. 512 |
| Index | p. 513 |
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