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

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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.
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    January 1, 2010
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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

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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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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Prentice Hall; 1st edition (January 1, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 553 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0321635906
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0321635907
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.32 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches
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Mark Summerfield is a computer science graduate and qualified teacher with many years experience working in the software industry, primarily as a programmer and documenter. Mark owns Qtrac Ltd., http://www.qtrac.eu, where he works as a programmer and where he created and now maintains his commercial software --- PDF comparison tools DiffPDF (GUI) and comparepdfcmd (command line). He also created the open source UXF (Uniform eXchange Format), and wrote the first UXF libraries.

All Mark's books are aimed at programmers and others, such as students, scientists, and engineers, who already have some programming experience (how much depends on the individual book). Each solo book has its own page on the Qtrac website from which the source code can be downloaded and that lists the book's errata. All the books are designed to teach technologies that Mark loves and has found to be the best of their kind.

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Ross Canning
5.0 out of 5 stars Exactly what the title says
Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 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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4.0 out of 5 stars But pretty good all the same
Reviewed in the United States on 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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Dj Guimard
5.0 out of 5 stars very good book,the only qt book
Reviewed in the United States on 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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4.0 out of 5 stars Qt 4 Advanced programming
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2016
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Good continuation to the Introduction of Qt4
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Javier Scappini
5.0 out of 5 stars The best book on programming with Qt
Reviewed in the United States on 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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5.0 out of 5 stars Everything was fine
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2021
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Book is in the state described by seller.
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Brian J. Sullivan
2.0 out of 5 stars Two Stars
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2015
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kunfoo
4.0 out of 5 stars good book
Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2010
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I have not finished reading yet.
But according to the part I have read,
it is quite good.
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Brad
4.0 out of 5 stars Really helped me understand how Qt is expected to be ...
Reviewed in Canada on October 14, 2014
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Really helped me understand how Qt is expected to be used; and showed me some built in features in the views i didn't know existed. Hope a new version for Qt 5 which also includes QtQuick comes out at some point.
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Jayne Crean
5.0 out of 5 stars Both a reference and a tutorial
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 18, 2014
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This is one of those useful books (manuals) that, by dipping in and treating each section as a tutorial both refreshes the grey parts that have long been disconnected/lost but, importantly, inspires you to refactor your legacy code/knowledge.
As a, hoped for bonus, it leads to a lot more inspiration.
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Kai Neufeldt
4.0 out of 5 stars Wichtiges Qt Buch, etwas durcheinander
Reviewed in Germany on December 14, 2010
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Das Buch ist schon deshalb gut, weil es sonst nichts vergleichbares gibt.
Es langweilt nicht mit Qt Grundlagen, sondern beschreibt die Neuerungen, die im Verlaufe der 4.xer Versionen (bis 4.6) dazugekommen sind.
Daher ist es auch sehr nützlich für Entwickler, die bisher hauptsächlich mit den 3.xer Versionen von Qt gearbeitet haben.
Allerdings ist es manchmal etwas langatmig und durcheinander. In jedem Kapitel werden nebenbei auch viele Techniken beschrieben, die nicht direkt was mit dem Thema des Kapitels zu tun haben, und man muss lange lesen, bis man die nötige Information hat. Also nichts zum schnell mal nachschlagen.
Das Kapitel über QThreads ist etwas zu kurz.
Und über QML gibt es gar kein Kapitel, schade.
Dennoch ist es mein einziges Qt Buch von Bedeutung, alles andere deckt die online-docu ab.
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Stéphane
5.0 out of 5 stars Whaou... ! Encore un "must have" pour le développeur Qt
Reviewed in France on August 16, 2010
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Après avoir dévoré le premier ouvrage consacré à Qt ("C++ GUI Programming With Qt 4" rédigé par le même auteur que j'avais eu la chance d'acheter en français !), j'ai craqué immédiatement pour ce nouvel opus. Et bien je le dévore en approfondissant mes connaissances et en découvrant des trucs et astuces donnés au fil du livre par l'auteur. Il explique clairement certains concepts parfois complexes (les Modèles / Vues, Phonon, Webkit...) rendant amusant l'approfondissement des connaissances de l'extraordinaire librairie Qt. On apprend en s'amusant. Ce livre est bien moins austère à lire que la documentation fournie et utilise des exemples concrets pour mettre en situation de nombreuses classes délicates à maîtriser.

Ayant contacté son auteur par email pour lui poser quelque questions, j'ai eu la surprise et la joie de le voir répondre immédiatement et d'être très facilement accessible et très disponible. Il écoute les questions sur le livre, y répond, conseille...

Bref vous l'aurez compris je suis entièrement satisfait de mon achat et je ne saurais que vous conseiller de posséder un exemplaire de ce livre avant que comme le précédent il ne soit plus édité !

PS : Ce livre est en anglais mais facilement lisible pour un francophone ayant quelques notions de la langue de Shakespeare dans son utilisation technique

Stéphane
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Jerome Lanteri
2.0 out of 5 stars Contenu moyen, format kindle mauvais mais prix excessif
Reviewed in France on December 4, 2014
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Ce livre n apporte rien de plus "avancé" que d autres, à la différence que le format kindle ne permet pas de zoomer sur les images d aperçus, ni de mettre des onglets, etc...
Aussi, le contenu est un peu "en vrac".
C est pas le meilleur livre sur QT, et en plus, il traite de QT4...
A ce prix, c est trop chère vendu, pour le contenu (qualité et date) et pour le format kindle qui vous contraint d utiliser leur programme ultra limité. Je déconseil fortement, kindle et ce livre sur QT.
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