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John Werner
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John Werner is an internationally published author, engineer, consultant, and conference speaker with more than 15 years' experience. He has earned patents for inventions ranging from Inkjet printers to automotive ignition systems. John was one of the early users of Qt on QNX and contributed to the early knowledge of how to make it work. He is a contributor to the Qt-related information on Stack Exchange. He is currently a senior software engineer, specializing in Qt development, for Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics.
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Now that we have created a project, designed a simple UI, built and run the application, and committed our code to a local repository, let's add to the project. As noted before, there really isn't much to make our little application interesting. Why don't we add something to it?

We will start by adding a place for the user to enter their name and then use the name to directly address them in the text.

Adding a place to type your name

For our next trick, let's see whether we can get the application to address us by name. We should have a line editing widget with a label saying My name is:.

Before you look further down, why don't you try adding the elements to the design yourself?

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John Werner

John Werner is an internationally published author, engineer, consultant, and conference speaker with more than 15 years' experience. He has earned patents for inventions ranging from Inkjet printers to automotive ignition systems. John was one of the early users of Qt on QNX and contributed to the early knowledge of how to make it work. He is a contributor to the Qt-related information on Stack Exchange. He is currently a senior software engineer, specializing in Qt development, for Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics.
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