January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
486 pages
11h 28m
English
Content preview from Computer Vision with OpenCV 3 and Qt5
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Qt Creator
Qt Creator is the name of the IDE (Integrated Development Environment) used to develop Qt applications. It's also the IDE that we will use throughout this book to create and build our projects. It is worth noting that Qt applications can be created using any other IDE (such as Visual Studio or Xcode), and Qt Creator is not a requirement to build Qt applications, but it's a lightweight and powerful IDE that comes with the Qt Framework installer by default. So, the biggest advantage it has is easy integration with the Qt framework.
The following is a screenshot of the Qt Creator, which shows the IDE in code editing mode. Details on how to use the Qt Creator will be covered in the next chapter, although we'll give it a try for a couple ...