Game Programming Using Qt Beginner's Guide

Time for action – creating a button component

As an exercise, let's try to use what you've learned so far to create a more complete and better working button component. The button is to have a rounded shape with a nice background and should hold definable text and an icon. The button should look good for different texts and icons.

Start by creating a new project in Qt Creator. Choose Qt Quick UI as the project type. When asked for the component set, choose the lowest available version of Qt Quick:

At this point, you should end up with a project containing two files–one with a QML project extension, which is your project management file, and the other ...