Intro to Qt GUI programming with C++ by Đức Phạm Organized by Qt is a registered product of Digia
Đức Phạm  Email: inducpham@gmail.com  Bachelor of IT since 2009  Linux enthusiast  Worked in Gameloft and now is East Agile  Interest in Game and Web development
History  Developed by Trolltech  Acquired by Nokia  Commercial license took over by Digia
In a nutshell  Qt is ‘cute’  Cross-platform GUI library for the C++ programming language  A complete interface environment with support for Webkit API, media streamer, file system browser, OpenGL API, etc.
VLC 2.x running in Windows, OS X 10.7 and Debian Linux
In a nutshell (continue)  Support embedded Linux  Smart phones: Maemo, Meego, etc.  Electronic devices: Car, TV, etc.  Feature road map including support for popular mobile platforms such as Android and iOS.
Legal stuff  Qt offers three licenses:  GPL v3  lGPL  Digia commercial license
Installation  Official download: http://qt-project.org/downloads  Official IDE: QtCreator  Visual Studio add-in  Debian repository:  sudo apt-get install qtcreator qtcreator-dbg
Technical features  Customized precompiler: signal and slot
Technical features (continue)  Signals don’t need to be implemented, but rather called  Signals and slots can be connected:  Regardless of which object  Many-many relationship  Could be disconnected
Technical features (continue) Features the parent-child relationship  A child widget when created could reference to a parent widget. This allows:  Hierarchy search: findChild() and findChildren()  Chain destructor on parent de-allocating
Tech demo
Qt in the world  Industrial  Skype  VirtualBox  Maya  Opera  Various embedded software
Qt in the world (continue) KDE  Complete desktop environment in Qt  Including the Plasma Window manager  Projects including Office Applications  Development suite: Kdevelop  Common desktop applications
Qt in the world (continue) Open source projects  Qt razor http://qt-apps.org/
Further references  http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/  http://www.youtube.com/user/VoidRealms  http://www.kde.org/developerplatform/  http://qt-apps.org/
Questions?
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Qt Tutorial - Part 1

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    Intro to Qt GUI programming with C++ by Đức Phạm Organized by Qt is a registered product of Digia
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    Đức Phạm  Email: inducpham@gmail.com  Bachelor of IT since 2009  Linux enthusiast  Worked in Gameloft and now is East Agile  Interest in Game and Web development
  • 3.
    History  Developed by Trolltech  Acquired by Nokia  Commercial license took over by Digia
  • 4.
    In a nutshell  Qt is ‘cute’  Cross-platform GUI library for the C++ programming language  A complete interface environment with support for Webkit API, media streamer, file system browser, OpenGL API, etc.
  • 5.
    VLC 2.x runningin Windows, OS X 10.7 and Debian Linux
  • 6.
    In a nutshell(continue)  Support embedded Linux  Smart phones: Maemo, Meego, etc.  Electronic devices: Car, TV, etc.  Feature road map including support for popular mobile platforms such as Android and iOS.
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    Legal stuff  Qt offers three licenses:  GPL v3  lGPL  Digia commercial license
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    Installation  Official download: http://qt-project.org/downloads  Official IDE: QtCreator  Visual Studio add-in  Debian repository:  sudo apt-get install qtcreator qtcreator-dbg
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    Technical features  Customized precompiler: signal and slot
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    Technical features (continue)  Signals don’t need to be implemented, but rather called  Signals and slots can be connected:  Regardless of which object  Many-many relationship  Could be disconnected
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    Technical features (continue) Featuresthe parent-child relationship  A child widget when created could reference to a parent widget. This allows:  Hierarchy search: findChild() and findChildren()  Chain destructor on parent de-allocating
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    Qt in theworld  Industrial  Skype  VirtualBox  Maya  Opera  Various embedded software
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    Qt in theworld (continue) KDE  Complete desktop environment in Qt  Including the Plasma Window manager  Projects including Office Applications  Development suite: Kdevelop  Common desktop applications
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    Qt in theworld (continue) Open source projects  Qt razor http://qt-apps.org/
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    Further references  http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/  http://www.youtube.com/user/VoidRealms  http://www.kde.org/developerplatform/  http://qt-apps.org/
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