C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4, 2nd Edition Book

Series Editor's Note     xi
Foreword     xiii
Preface     xv
Acknowledgments     xvii
A Brief History of Qt     xix
Basic Qt
Getting Started     3
Hello Qt     3
Making Connections     5
Laying Out Widgets     6
Using the Reference Documentation     10
Creating Dialogs     13
Subclassing QDialog     13
Signals and Slots in Depth     20
Rapid Dialog Design     23
Shape-Changing Dialogs     31
Dynamic Dialogs     38
Built-in Widget and Dialog Classes     39
Creating Main Windows     45
Subclassing QMainWindow     46
Creating Menus and Toolbars     50
Setting Up the Status Bar     55
Implementing the File Menu     57
Using Dialogs     63
Storing Settings     69
Multiple Documents     71
Splash Screens     74
Implementing Application Functionality     77
The Central Widget     77
Subclassing QTableWidget     78
Loading and Saving     84
Implementing the Edit Menu     87
Implementing the Other Menus     91
Subclassing QTableWidgetItem     95
Creating Custom Widgets     105
Customizing Qt Widgets     105
Subclassing QWidget     107
Integrating Custom Widgets with Qt Designer     117
Double Buffering     121
Intermediate Qt
Layout Management     141
Laying Out Widgets on a Form     141
Stacked Layouts     147
Splitters     149
Scrolling Areas     152
Dock Windows and Toolbars     154
Multiple Document Interface     157
Event Processing     167
Reimplementing Event Handlers     167
Installing Event Filters     172
Staying Responsive during Intensive Processing     175
2D Graphics     179
Painting with QPainter     180
Coordinate System Transformations     185
High-Quality Rendering with QImage     193
Item-Based Rendering with Graphics View     195
Printing     217
Drag and Drop     227
Enabling Drag and Drop     227
Supporting Custom Drag Types     232
Clipboard Handling      237
Item View Classes     239
Using the Item View Convenience Classes     240
Using Predefined Models     247
Implementing Custom Models     252
Implementing Custom Delegates     266
Container Classes     273
Sequential Containers     274
Associative Containers     282
Generic Algorithms     285
Strings, Byte Arrays, and Variants     287
Input/Output     295
Reading and Writing Binary Data     296
Reading and Writing Text     301
Traversing Directories     307
Embedding Resources     308
Inter-Process Communication     309
Databases     315
Connecting and Querying     316
Viewing Tables     322
Editing Records Using Forms     324
Presenting Data in Tabular Forms     330
Multithreading     339
Creating Threads     340
Synchronizing Threads     343
Communicating with the Main Thread     349
Using Qt's Classes in Secondary Threads     356
Networking     359
Writing FTP Clients     359
Writing HTTP Clients      368
Writing TCP Client-Server Applications     371
Sending and Receiving UDP Datagrams     381
XML     387
Reading XML with QXmlStreamReader     388
Reading XML with DOM     395
Reading XML with SAX     400
Writing XML     404
Providing Online Help     407
Tooltips, Status Tips, and "What's This?" Help     407
Using a Web Browser to Provide Online Help     409
Using QTextBrowser as a Simple Help Engine     411
Using Qt Assistant for Powerful Online Help     414
Advanced Qt
Internationalization     419
Working with Unicode     420
Making Applications Translation-Aware     423
Dynamic Language Switching     429
Translating Applications     435
Look and Feel Customization     439
Using Qt Style Sheets     439
Subclassing QStyle     454
3D Graphics     471
Drawing Using OpenGL     471
Combining OpenGL and QPainter     477
Doing Overlays Using Framebuffer Objects     484
Creating Plugins     491
Extending Qt with Plugins     492
Making Applications Plugin-Aware      502
Writing Application Plugins     505
Application Scripting     509
Overview of the ECMAScript Language     510
Extending Qt Applications with Scripts     519
Implementing GUI Extensions Using Scripts     523
Automating Tasks through Scripting     530
Platform-Specific Features     543
Interfacing with Native APIs     543
Using ActiveX on Windows     547
Handling X11 Session Management     559
Embedded Programming     567
Getting Started with Qt/Embedded Linux     568
Customizing Qt/Embedded Linux     570
Integrating Qt Applications with Qtopia     571
Using Qtopia APIs     576
Appendixes
Obtaining and Installing Qt     589
Building Qt Applications     593
Introduction to Qt Jambi     605
Introduction to C++ for Java and C# Programmers     623
Index     665