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Hands-On GUI Programming with C++ and Qt5
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Hands-On GUI Programming with C++ and Qt5

by Lee Zhi Eng
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
404 pages
8h 27m
English
Packt Publishing
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Discovering tools in Qt

Qt comes with a set of tools that make programmers' lives easier. One of the tools is Qt Creator (seen in the following screenshot), which is an IDE (integrated development environment) that consists of a code editor and a GUI (graphical user interface) designer that works hand-in-hand with other Qt tools, such as the compiler, debugger, and so on. The most attractive tool among all is, of course, the GUI designer, which comes with two different types of editors: one for widget-based applications, called Qt Designer, and another for Qt Quick Application, called Qt Quick Designer. Both tools can be accessed directly in Qt Creator when you open up a relevant file format. Qt Creator also includes a built-in documentation ...

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