Advanced Qt Programming: Creating Great Software with C++ and Qt 4 (Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series) 1st Edition

by Mark Summerfield (Author)

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This book is aimed at existing C++/Qt programmers and presents ideas and techniques that are too advanced or specialized (although not necessarily difficult), for a first book on Qt.

Qt has now grown to over 700 classes and well over a million words of documentation, far too much to cover in a single volume. So instead of covering everything very thinly, the book focuses on key areas of Qt technology and tries to provide more comprehensive coverage than is available elsewhere.

The book is completely practical in emphasis, with every technique illustrated by working code. The examples show Qt best practices, and have been tested on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows, using Qt 4.6 and where possible (e.g., using #if QT_VERSION), Qt 4.5. (The examples and a sample chapter can be downloaded from the book's web page. Amazon don't allow URLs so google for "qtrac" to find it.)

The book's main themes are hybrid desktop/Internet applications, threading, rich text handling, Qt's graphics/view architecture, and Qt's model/view architecture (to which four chapters are devoted), although many other topics are covered. Besides each chapter's main subject, lots of other classes, methods, and techniques are used wherever they make sense, to show as many Qt features as possible. So even the most experienced Qt programmer should discover aspects of Qt they weren't aware of, discover new techniques, and be inspired with new ideas.

Advanced Qt Programming: Creating Great Software with C++ and Qt 4 (Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series)

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Editorial Reviews

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“A good book on advanced Qt programming has been missing in the arsenal of Qt programmers. I’m very happy that Mark has written one. He is a fantastic technical writer with all the necessary background to write authoritatively about Qt programming. ... In other words: You are in for a treat! You are holding in your hands an excellent opportunity to expand on your knowledge of all the cool stuff you can do with Qt.”

—Eirik Chambe-Eng, cocreator of Qt

From the Author

This is my third solo book--and beyond doubt the most difficult to write. The key dilemma I've faced throughout was respecting the first word of the title: "advanced". Some reader is bound to notice the use of some particular technique and exclaim "oh no, he didn't use a timewarp pointer--how can he call this advanced!". Well, although an expert in the book's subject area it is possible that I really don't know about timewarp pointers. However, it is more likely that I deliberately chose not to use them. My aim is to always show the clearest, simplest, most maintainable code possible, and to always prefer solid Qt best practices over fragile exotica. (For example, in the entire book there is only one use of a member function pointer.) Nonetheless, I think this book will take readers beyond what most other Qt books cover, and I'm confident that many readers will find much to challenge and interest them--as well as lots of practical code and ideas that they can make direct use of in their own Qt programming. (added by author)

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Series: Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series
Hardcover: 553 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (July 21, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321635906
ISBN-13: 978-0321635907
Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 1.3 x 9.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
Average Customer Review: 11 customer reviews
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Ross Canning

Exactly what the title says

July 25, 2012

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An excellent overview of some of the advanced features of QT, such as displaying web pages, playing multimedia, and multi-threaded programming. I've been using QT professionally for a couple of years now, but I still learnt a great deal from this book.

The writing style is friendly and informal, and all the explanatory text is easy to understand.

All of the example programs worked perfectly, with one minor exception: the 'weather tray icon' app did not display properly -- perhaps because I was running Ubuntu 12.04, whereas the app had been tested on Fedora. (I could not, in good conscience, deduct a star from this book's rating because of that: making apps that work on every variant of Linux is an impossible task :) ).

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Amazon Customer

But pretty good all the same

October 23, 2016

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Didn't quite give me all the info I wanted re interface presentation. But pretty good all the same.

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Ralph French

Five Stars

July 5, 2015

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Excellent choice for that 'extra' understanding of Qt.

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David Q. R. Wagoner

Very clear with good examples. It is best if the user has ...

July 8, 2014

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Very clear with good examples. It is best if the user has a good grasp of C++ prior to reading this book.

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Dj Guimard

very good book,the only qt book

December 17, 2010

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This book focus on what is essential and important using QT.
For example the model view architecture using desktop widget but also graphical widget,state machine animation framework are very well explain and precise.
The code provided simply work.
I think reader of this book can really save some time during the learning process.It s also a book that you can read close to your qt creator open to experiment each notion explained by Mark.

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Amazon Customer

Qt 4 Advanced programming

February 2, 2016

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Good continuation to the Introduction of Qt4

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Javier Scappini

The best book on programming with Qt

August 19, 2010

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I've been waiting this book for many months, and now that I've read it, it absolutely fulfill my expectations... It's truly an amazing book for deep learning many aspects that are useful but in someway, sometimes 'hidden' inside Qt.
This book is the path to glory, for those who, like me, love those features that turn a programming language in a delightful day at the park...

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Well written.

December 23, 2013

Format: Hardcover

For those who have done C++ GUI programming by Jasmin Blanchette and Mark Summerfield this book will be a nice follow-up. It has the same down-to-earth style and covers topics that were not covered in the former book. Personally, I found very useful QTextDocument examples and topics on concurrency.

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