Advanced Qt Programming: Creating Great Software with C++ and Qt 4

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 14
Foreword......Page 16
Introduction......Page 18
 Acknowledgements......Page 20
Chapter 1. Hybrid Desktop/Internet Applications......Page 22
 Internet-Aware Widgets......Page 23
 Using WebKit......Page 38
  A Generic Web Browser Window Component......Page 39
  Creating Web Site-Specific Applications......Page 47
  Embedding Qt Widgets in Web Pages......Page 61
Chapter 2. Audio and Video......Page 70
 Using QSound and QMovie......Page 71
 The Phonon Multimedia Framework......Page 77
  Playing Music......Page 81
  Playing Videos......Page 97
Chapter 3. Model/View Table Models......Page 104
 Qt’s Model/View Architecture......Page 105
 Using QStandardItemModels for Tables......Page 107
  Changing a Table Model through the User Interface......Page 108
  A QStandardItemModel Subclass for Tables......Page 119
  A QSortFilterProxyModel to Filter Out Duplicate Rows......Page 124
  A QSortFilterProxyModel to Filter In Wanted Rows......Page 126
  Changing a Table Model through the User Interface......Page 130
  A CustomQAbstractTableModel Subclass for Tables......Page 133
Chapter 4. Model/View Tree Models......Page 146
 Using QStandardItemModels for Trees......Page 147
  Changing a Tree Model through the User Interface......Page 148
  A QStandardItem Subclass for Tree Items......Page 158
  A QStandardItemModel Subclass for Trees......Page 160
 Creating Custom Tree Models......Page 168
  Changing a Tree Model through the User Interface......Page 169
  A Custom Item Class for Tree Items......Page 172
  A CustomQAbstractItemModel Subclass for Trees......Page 175
Chapter 5. Model/View Delegates......Page 202
 Datatype-Specific Editors......Page 203
  A Read–Only Column or Row Delegate......Page 205
  An Editable Column or Row Delegate......Page 210
 Model-Specific Delegates......Page 218
Chapter 6. Model/View Views......Page 224
 QAbstractItemView Subclasses......Page 225
 Model-Specific Visualizing Views......Page 241
  The Visualizer Widget......Page 242
  The Visualizer’s Aggregated Header Widget......Page 249
  The Visualizer’s Aggregated View Widget......Page 252
Chapter 7. Threading with QtConcurrent......Page 262
 Executing Functions in Threads......Page 265
  Using QtConcurrent::run()......Page 269
  Using QRunnable......Page 274
 Filtering and Mapping in Threads......Page 278
  Using QtConcurrent to Filter......Page 287
  Using QtConcurrent to Filter and Reduce......Page 294
  Using QtConcurrent to Map......Page 298
 Processing Independent Items......Page 304
 Processing Shared Items......Page 319
Chapter 9. Creating Rich Text Editors......Page 334
 Introducing QTextDocument......Page 335
  Completion for Line Edits and Comboboxes......Page 337
  Completion and Syntax Highlighting for Text Editors......Page 339
 A Rich Text Single Line Editor......Page 359
 Multi-line Rich Text Editing......Page 370
Chapter 10. Creating Rich Text Documents......Page 376
 Exported QTextDocument File Quality......Page 378
  Creating QTextDocuments with HTML......Page 381
  Creating QTextDocuments with QTextCursor......Page 384
 Exporting and Printing Documents......Page 388
  Exporting QTextDocuments......Page 389
  Printing and Previewing QTextDocuments......Page 393
 Painting Pages......Page 396
  Painting SVG......Page 404
  Painting Pixmaps......Page 405
Chapter 11. Creating Graphics/View Windows......Page 406
 The Graphics/View Architecture......Page 407
 Graphics/View Widgets and Layouts......Page 409
 Introducing Graphics Items......Page 416
Chapter 12. Creating Graphics/View Scenes......Page 426
 Scenes, Items, and Actions......Page 428
  Creating the Main Window......Page 429
  Saving, Loading, Printing, and Exporting Scenes......Page 432
  Manipulating Graphics Items......Page 440
 Enhancing QGraphicsView......Page 456
 Creating a Dock Widget Toolbox......Page 457
  Enhancing QGraphicsTextItem......Page 464
  Enhancing an Existing Graphics Item......Page 472
  Creating a Custom Graphics Item from Scratch......Page 476
 Introducing the Animation Framework......Page 486
 Introducing the State Machine Framework......Page 491
 Combining Animations and State Machines......Page 498
Epilogue......Page 508
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