83 PRENTICE @ $3 HALL PRENTICE HALL OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT SERIES Programming Second EditionContents Series Bditor’s Note .....00...000 00 cccccecectetetee eee xd BeveWORE lo Nae o he i Sereateesenner OE ee Renae aa Weise xv AM NEN a oc sce anes n enum ener emengarsoomecenenes: SEL A Briof Hatory of Qte:scsssyerwsieneeygaecerei aie Part I: Basic Qt 1. Getting Started . 3 Hello Qt. 3 Making Connections 5 Laying Out Widgets 6 Using the Reference Documentation .. 10 2: Creating Dinloga ties ah vsti IS Subclassing QDialog .................5 sree eaarag ae Signals and Slots in Depth ..... 20 Rapid Dialog Design .... 23 Shape-Changing Dialogs .. BL Dynamie Dialogs : enh cece 38 Built-in Widget and Dialog Cie ce 8. Creating Main Windows 45 Subclassing Q@MainWindow . 46 Creating Menus and Toolbars ...............6000000eceeceeeeeee 50 Setting Up the Status Bar . 55 Implementing the File Menu 57 Using Dialogs . 63 Storing Settings . .. 69 Multiple Documents a Splash Screens 744, Implementing Application Functionality ... 17 ‘The Central Widget ........ 11 Subelassing QTableWidget 18 Loading and Saving . a 84 Implementing the Edit Menu 87 Implementing the Other Menus .. 91 Subclassing QTableWidgetltem .. 95 5. Creating Custom Widgets . 105 Customizing Qt Widgets ......... 105 Subclassing QWidget ............ 107 Integrating Custom Widgets with Qu Designer . naar 7 Double Buffering ..............-.... TPA ttiicces tal Part II: Intermediate Qt 6, Layout Management 141 Laying Out Widgets on a Form . 141 Stacked Layouts 147 Splitters 149 Scrolling Areas 152 Dock Windows and Toolbars .... : ceeeeeeeeee 15d Multiple Document Interface ....... maniihieanecetsses TOT 7. Event Processing 167 Reliaplemosting Brent Handiors 167 Installing Event Filters .. oe . 172 Staying Responsive auring iatasive! cess DP ecco wcorscenpes) 1B 8. 2D Graphics ee deadeneeetesessenessteessce 179 Painting with Painter .. 180 Coordinate System. ‘Transform: ations 185 High-Quality Rendering with QImage . renee: 188 Item-Based Rendering with Graphics View .. deaeale dia - 195 Printing... 02.10.00 217 82 Drag and Drop:cicsvessiea th a ee Mey 227 Enabling Drag and Drop . 207 Supporting Custom Drag Types 232 Clipboard Handling .. 23710. iL 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Item View Classes Using the Item View Convent Classes met Using Predefined Models ............. Implementing Custom Models . Implementing Custom Delegates ..... Container Classes .. Sequential Containers ...... Associative Containers ..... Generic Algorithms . init Strings, Byte Arrays, and Variants . Input/Output ......,,. Reading and Writing Binary Data . Reading and Writing Text ‘Traversing Directories ..... Embedding Resources .. Inter-Process Communication. Databases Connecting and Querying Viewing Tables . ee Editing Records Using Forms ...... Presenting Data in Tabular Forms . Multithreading .... Creating Threads .. Synchronizing Threads . Communicating with the Main Thread . Using Qt’s Classes in Secondary Threads ........ Networking ............ Writing FTP Clients . Writing HTTP Clients: Writing TCP Client-Server Applications .. rence Sending and Receiving UDP Datagrams...............2...5 Reading XML with QXmIStreamReader . Reading XML with DOM ..............2.....0517. 18. 19, 20. 21. 22, 23. Reading XML with SAX... Writing XML ..... : viding Online Help . ais Status Tips, and “What! 's Thi o Hale, oo 5ae Using a Web Browser to Provide Online Help ...... Using QTextBrowser as a Simple Help Engine Using Qt Assistant for Powerful Online Help Part III: Advanced Qt Internationalization ac Working with Unicode ...... iz Making Applications Translation-Aware .. Dynamie Language Switching Translating Applications .. Look and Feel Customization . Using Qt Style Sheets ..... Subelassing QStyle SDGraphics 2..0.5....000s0.ce0 Drawing Using OpenGL . Combining OpenGL and QPainter ........, Doing Overlays Using Framebuffer Objects Creating Plugins ........ Extending Qt with Plugins 2 Making Applications Plugin-Aware Writing Application Plugins . Application Scripting ‘Overview of the ECMAScript Langiaga Extending Qt Applications with Seripts Implementing GUI Extensions Using Scripts Automating Tasks through Scripting ... Platform-Specific Features . Interfacing with Native APIs .. Using ActiveX on Windows ante Handling X11 Session Management ..... er astel J 407 407 409 411 414 419 420 423 429 435 439 439 454 47. 47. 4TT 484 491 492 502 505 509 510 519 523 530 543 543 BAT 55924. Embedded Programming ........ Getting Started with QUEmbedded Linux Customizing Qu/Embedded Linux : Integrating Qt Applications with Qtopia Using Qtopia APIS .....seccseeeree Appendixes A. Obtaining and Installing Qt ........ B. Building Qt Applications C. Introduction to Qt Jambi ...............-..-..0.200 06: D. Introduction to C++ for Java and C# Programmers .- Index . 567 568 570 B71 576 589 593 605 623 665