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Application Development with Qt Creator - Third Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Jan 2020
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781789951752
Pages 426 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Author (1):
Lee Zhi Eng Lee Zhi Eng
Profile icon Lee Zhi Eng

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: The Basics
2. Getting Started with Qt Creator 3. Building Applications with Qt Creator 4. Designing Your Application with Qt Designer 5. Qt Foundations 6. Developing Applications with Qt Widgets 7. Section 2: Advanced Features
8. Drawing with Qt 9. Doing More with Qt Quick 10. Implementing Multimedia with Qt Quick 11. Sensors and Qt Quick 12. Section 3: Practical Matters
13. Localizing Your Application with Qt Linguist 14. Optimizing Performance with Qt Creator 15. Developing Mobile Applications with Qt Creator 16. Embedded and IoT Development with Qt Creator 17. Qt Tips and Tricks 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using the model editor

The model editor is a new addition to Qt's toolset. You can use it to create Universal Modeling Language (UML)-style models to visualize how your application would behave. This is one of the good ways to communicate with your programmers or to present your idea to your team. Currently, the model editor is still in the beta testing phase and will be subject to changes in later versions. At the moment, you need to enable it in Qt Creator before you're able to use it. To do this, try the following steps:

  1. Go to Help | About Plugins to open up the Installed Plugins window. Make sure that the ModelEditor option has been checked.
  1. After that, you can create a new model file by going to File| New File or Project and select either the Model or Scratch Model options under Files and Classes | Modeling. The other option, State Chart, is for state machine...
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