April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
404 pages
8h 27m
English
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Graphs and Charts
In the previous chapter, we learned how to retrieve data from a database using Qt's sql module. There are many ways to present this data to the users, such as displaying it in the form of tables or diagrams. In this chapter, we will learn how to do the latter—presenting data with different types of graphs and charts using Qt's charts module.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Types of charts and graphs in Qt
- Charts and graphs implementation
- Creating the dashboard page
Since Qt 5.7, several modules that were only available for commercial users before have become free for all the open source package users, which includes the Qt Charts module. Therefore, it is considered a very new module for most Qt users ...