Game Programming Using Qt Beginner's Guide

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to create simple graphical user interfaces with Qt. We went through two approaches—creating user interface classes by writing all the code directly and designing the user interface with a graphical tool that generates most of the code for us. There is no telling which of the two approaches is better; each of them is better in some areas and worse in others. In general, you should prefer using Qt Designer forms to write code directly because it's faster and less prone to errors as most of the code is generated. However, if you want to retain more control over the code or your GUI is highly dynamic, writing all the code yourself will be easier, especially when you gain enough experience with Qt to avoid common ...