Is there a terse introduction to GUI programming with Qt, meant for programmers with a decade's worth of experience (but who don't have any exposure to Qt). I am looking for something that gets one started quickly, and covers all the advanced stuff (including best-practices and patterns). Was looking for something like this book - Advanced Qt Programming - which alas, isn't out yet.
Looks like that's a beginner's book. What I am interested in is something like the O'Reilly 'in a Nutshell' books. In fact, I think, that asking for a book like that would be too much, but is there something online?
tathagata
2010-07-06 06:21:10
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I would start with Qt Architecture, Graphics if you need it, IO and Networking, Model/View (learn and love it), Various other APIs, and finally How To's and Best Practices. The Qt Documentation is one of the major strengths of the toolkit. In many cases you won't need other resources. They even give a quick overview of tips for learning here.
Note: I'm linking you to the next release documentation since I think it looks better, the current release is here. When reading things over, just look for the comment on when the feature was introduced to make sure it will be available for the release you are using.
Adam W
2010-07-06 13:23:55
Thanks! I knew about the good (and extensive) documentation, but needed a guide through it. Also, 4.7 is what I am looking at to get started with. I am especially interested in the Qt Quick and QML parts.
tathagata
2010-07-08 01:50:07