Advanced Qt Programming
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Advanced Qt Programming
Creating Great Software with C+ + and Qt 4
Mark Summerfield
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This book is dedicated to Anna Rebecca Paterson
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Contents at a Glance
List of Tables ...... xiii
Foreword ...... xv
Introduction ...... 1
Chapter 1. Hybrid Desktop/Internet Applications ...... 5
Chapter 2. Audio and Video ...... 53
Chapter 3. Model/View Table Models ...... 87
Chapter 4. Model/View Tree Models ...... 129
Chapter 5. Model/View Delegates ...... 185
Chapter 6. Model/View Views ...... 207
Chapter 7. Threading with QtConcurrent ...... 245 ptg Chapter 8. Threading with QThread ...... 287
Chapter 9. Creating Rich Text Editors ...... 317
Chapter 10. Creating Rich Text Documents ...... 359
Chapter 11. Creating Graphics/View Windows ...... 389
Chapter 12. Creating Graphics/View Scenes ...... 409
Chapter 13. The Animation and State Machine Frameworks ...... 469
Epilogue ...... 491
Selected Bibliography ...... 495
Index ...... 499
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Contents
List of Tables ...... xiii
Foreword ...... xv
Introduction ......
1 Acknowledgements . 3
Chapter 1. Hybrid Desktop/Internet A