Qt 6 C++ GUI Programming Cookbook: Practical recipes for building cross-platform GUI applications and widgets

Learn to use Qt 6 to design and build functional, appealing, and user-friendly graphical user interfaces for your applications with the Qt 6 C++ GUI Programming Cookbook third edition. This book will teach you how to customize the look and feel of your applications, improve visual quality using graphics rendering and animation, and strike a balance between presentation and web content to make your applications both appealing and functional.

With its cross-platform ability and the latest UI paradigms, Qt makes it possible to build intuitive, interactive, and user-friendly UIs for your applications. This book will teach you a variety of topics such as GUI customization and animation, graphics rendering, and implementing Google Maps. You'll also learn advanced concepts such as asynchronous programming, event handling using signals and slots, network programming, and other aspects to optimize your application.

By the end of this book, you'll have the confidence to design and customize GUI applications that meet your clients' expectations and have an understanding of best-practice solutions to common problems during the app development process.

Key Features: - Learn to use Qt 6 to design and customize the look and feel of your applications - Improve the visual quality of an application by using graphics rendering and animation - Understand the balance of presentation and web content that will make an application appealing yet functional

What you will learn: - Animate GUI elements using Qt 6's built-in animation system - Draw vector shapes and bitmap images using Qt 6's powerful rendering system - Implement an industry-standard OpenGL library in your project - Build a mobile app that supports touch events and export it to devices - Parse and extract data from an XML file and present it on your GUI - Interact with web content by calling JavaScript functions from C++ - Access MySQL and SQLite databases to retrieve data and display it on your GUI

Who this book is for: This intermediate-level book is designed for those who want to develop software using Qt 6. If you want to improve the visual quality and content presentation of your software application, this book is for you. Prior experience with the C++ programming language is required.

Table of Contents: 1. Look-and-Feel Customization with Qt Designer 2. Event Handling - Signals and Slots 3. States and Animations with Qt and QML 4. QPainter and 2D Graphics 5. OpenGL Implementation 6. Transitioning from Qt5 to Qt6 7. Using Network and Managing Large Documents 8. Threading Basics - Asynchronous Programming 9. Building a Touch Screen Application with Qt6 10. JSON Parsing Made Easy 11. Conversion Library 12. Accessing Databases with SQL Driver and Qt 13. Develop Web Applications Using Qt WebEngine 14. Performance Optimization

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