November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
1150 pages
24h 11m
English
book
End to End GUI Development with Qt5
by Nicholas Sherriff, Guillaume Lazar, Robin Penea, Marco Piccolino
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Adding the controls menu and the element creation options
All of these controls are provided by default by the Qt Quick Controls 2 module. We create a simple grey Rectangle to contain the controls, a Column positioner to display them vertically, and then add the checkboxes to choose the element's shape and the add element and remove element buttons, as follows:
// cccomposer/main.qmlimport QtQuick 2.0import cutecomics.gui 1.0import QtQuick.Window 2.3import QtQuick.Scene3D 2.0import QtQuick.Controls 2.2Window { visible: true width: 800 height: 600 Scene3D { anchors.top: parent.top anchors.bottom: parent.bottom anchors.left: parent.left anchors.right: menu.left ... } Rectangle { id: menu width: 160 color: "#999" anchors.right: parent.right ...Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
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