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Published inJan 2020
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ISBN-139781789951752
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Lee Zhi Eng
Lee Zhi Eng
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Lee Zhi Eng

Lee Zhi Eng is a self-taught programmer who worked as an artist and programmer at several game studios before becoming a part-time lecturer for 2 years at a university, teaching game development subjects related to Unity and Unreal Engine. He has not only taken part in various projects related to games, interactive apps, and virtual reality but has also participated in multiple projects that are more oriented toward software and system development. When he is not writing code, he enjoys traveling, photography, and exploring new technologies.
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Playing video is as easy as playing audio; there's a Video type that supports playing the video and displaying the video on the display. Here's a video player that plays video when you click on it, and pauses and restarts the playback when you press the spacebar:

import QtQuick 2.12
import QtQuick.Window 2.12
import QtMultimedia 5.12

Window {
visible: true
width: 800
height: 600
title: qsTr("Play Video")

Video {
id: video
width : 800
height : 600
source: "video.avi"

MouseArea {
anchors.fill: parent
onClicked: {
video.play()
}
}

focus: true
Keys.onSpacePressed:
video.playbackState == MediaPlayer.PlayingState ?
video.pause() :
video.play()
}
}

The preceding code produces the...

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Lee Zhi Eng

Lee Zhi Eng is a self-taught programmer who worked as an artist and programmer at several game studios before becoming a part-time lecturer for 2 years at a university, teaching game development subjects related to Unity and Unreal Engine. He has not only taken part in various projects related to games, interactive apps, and virtual reality but has also participated in multiple projects that are more oriented toward software and system development. When he is not writing code, he enjoys traveling, photography, and exploring new technologies.
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