January 2016
Beginner
512 pages
12h 35m
English
Content preview from Game Programming Using Qt Beginner's GuideBecome 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,
Start your free trial
Event handlers
Qt Quick is meant to be used for creating user interfaces that are highly interactive. It offers a number of elements for taking input events from the user.
Mouse input
The simplest of all of them is MouseArea. It defines a transparent rectangle that exposes a number of properties and signals related to mouse input. Commonly used signals include clicked, pressed, and released. Let's do a couple of exercises to see how the element can be used.