Advanced Qt Programming: Creating Great Software with C++ and Qt 4

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 (which will be available for download once the book is published in physical form in U.S. bookstores), 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.

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.

 

“A good book on advanced Qt programming has been missing in the arsenal of Qt programmers. I’m very happy that Mark has written one. He is a fantastic technical writer with all the necessary background to write authoritatively about Qt programming. ... In other words: You are in for a treat! You are holding in your hands an excellent opportunity to expand on your knowledge of all the cool stuff you can do with Qt.”

—Eirik Chambe-Eng, cocreator of Qt

 

For more information and where to purchase it, please visit http://www.qtrac.eu/aqpbook.html

Author: Mark Summerfield
ISBN : 978-0321635907