Creating a login screen with Qt

In this recipe, we will learn how put our knowledge to use and create a functional login screen using Qt and SQLite.

How to do it…

Create your first functional login screen by following these steps:

1. Open a web browser and go to SQLiteStudio. We will create a new data table called user, which looks like this:

Figure 12.14 – Create a new user table

2. Let’s insert our first item of data into the newly created table and set user_employeeID to the ID of an existing employee. In this way, the user account we create will be linked to the data of one of the employees:

Figure 12.15 – The user_employeeID column is linked to the employee’s emp_id column

3. Open Qt Creator and create a new Qt Widgets Application project. We will start off with mainwindow.ui. Place a stacked widget on the canvas and make sure it contains two pages. Then, set up...