Qt Terms and Concepts

Here you can find definitions for the terms and concepts used in Qt.

Qt names

Here you can find names of Qt tools and solutions. In documentation, use QDoc macros for them, to apply any changes automatically. You can find a list of macros here: QDoc Manual: Product Names

Name	Description	Do not use	Macro	Status
Active Qt	Classes for applications which use ActiveX and COM.		?
Android Deploy Qt (androiddeployqt)	This tool automates the Qt application deployment on Android.		?
Automotive MCU Deployment Platforms	Hardware specific adaptations to allow Qt Quick Ultralite applications to run on target hardware.		?
CMake	CMake is a tool to simplify the build process for development projects across different platforms. It automatically generates build systems, such as Makefiles and Visual Studio project files.		?
D-Bus Viewer	Introspection tool for D-Bus objects and messages.		?
In-Vehicle Infotainment Reference UI	A Qt reference UI implementation for In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) systems.		?
makeqpf	A tool to generate pre-rendered fonts for embedded Linux.		?
Meta-Object Compiler (moc)	Generates meta-object information for QObject subclasses.		?
Non-automotive MCU Deployment Platforms	Hardware-specific adaptations to allow Qt Quick Ultralite applications to run on target hardware.		?
On-device Deployment and Debugging	On-device debugging and deployment of Qt applications via Qt Creator.		?
Python Shiboken Wizard	A binding generator tool for exposing C++ projects to Python.		?
qmake	Qt's build automation tool that simplifies the build process across different platforms. Note! Although qmake is still supported, the official build tool for Qt is CMake, and we recommend developers to use CMake in new projects.		?
qmlformat	A tool for automatically formatting the QML files in accordance with the QML Coding Conventions.		?
qmllint	A tool for verifying the syntax validity of QML files.		?
QMLLive	Provides a live reloader environment for rapid development of Qt Quick applications, dramatically reducing the time it takes to deploy and test changes in the UI design.		?
QML Language Server	Helps you edit QML code in your favorite LSP (Language Server Protocol) compatible editor.		\QMLLS
QML Profiler	Enables you to get the necessary diagnostic information, allowing you to analyze the application code for performance issues.		?
QML Runtime	A utility to load and display QML documents.		?
Qt 3D	Functionality for near real-time simulation systems with support for 2D and 3D rendering.		?
Qt Application Manager	Provides a basis for a multi-application embedded system, taking care of application lifecycle management.		?
Qt Assistant	A tool for viewing Qt documentation.		\QA
Qt Bluetooth	Provides access to Bluetooth hardware.		?
Qt Charts	UI Components for displaying visually pleasing charts, driven by static or dynamic data models.		?
Qt CoAP	Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) is a machine-to-machine web transfer protocol for use with constrained nodes and networks in the Internet of Things.		?
Qt Concurrent	Classes for writing multi-threaded programs without using low-level threading primitives.		?
Qt Configuration Tool (qtconfig-gui)	A tool for providing features and tools for creating and building smaller Qt binaries.		?
Qt Core	Core non-graphical classes used by other modules.		?
Qt Creator	A cross-platform, complete integrated development environment (IDE) for application developers to create applications for multiple desktop, embedded, and mobile device platforms.		\QC (TBA)
Qt Data Visualization	UI Components for creating stunning 3D data visualizations.		?
QDB	A tool for controlling Boot2Qt devices.		?
Qt D-Bus XML compiler (qdbusxml2cpp)	Converts D-Bus interface descriptions to C++ source code.		?
Qt Designer	A tool for designing and building graphical user interfaces (GUIs) using Qt Widgets.		\QD
Qt Design Studio	A UI design and development environment for creating animated user interfaces.		\QDS
Qt Design Studio Bridge	Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, XD, Sketch, and Figma Bridges for the Qt Design Studio to convert artwork into Qt Quick files. Note! Needs to be divided into separate bridges for documentation purposes.		?
Qt Device Utilities	Provides functionality for controlling various settings in embedded applications.		?
Qt Digital Advertising	All-in-one development solution to monetise digital ads on embedded screens/mobile/desktop adds.		?
Qt Distance Field Generator	Generates distance fields to improve load times of text-heavy Qt Quick user interfaces.		?
QDoc	A tool used by Qt Developers to generate documentation for software projects.		?
Qt GUI	Base classes for graphical user interface components. Includes OpenGL.		?
Qt Help	Classes for integrating documentation into applications, similar to Qt Assistant.		?
Qt Image Formats	Plugins for additional image formats: TIFF, MNG, TGA, WBMP.		?
Qt Installer Framework	Provides a set of tools and utilities to create installers for the supported desktop platforms.		\IFW (TBA)
Qt Linguist	A set of tools for translating Qt C++ and Qt Quick applications into local languages.		\QL
Qt MQTT	A machine-to-machine (M2M) protocol that provides a communication channel with minimal overhead.		?
Qt Multimedia	Classes for audio, video, and camera functionality.		?
Qt Multimedia Widgets	Qt Multimedia sub-module, containing widget-based classes for implementing multimedia functionality.		?
Qt NFC	Provides access to Near-Field communication (NFC) hardware.		?
Qt Network	Classes to make network programming easier and more portable.		?
Qt Network Authorization	Provides support for OAuth-based authorization to online services.		?
Qt OPC UA	A Qt API for interacting with OPC UA, a protocol for data modelling and data exchange in industrial applications.		?
Qt OpenGL	OpenGL support classes. Deprecated in favor of the QOpenGL classes in the Qt GUI module.		?
Qt Positioning	Provides access to position, satellite and area monitoring classes.		?
Qt Print Support	Classes to make printing easier and more portable.		?
Qt QML	Classes for QML and JavaScript languages.,All,All,C++		?
Qt Quick Compiler	Runs QML at a speed close to native with a QML Script and QML type compiler. The former compiles functions and expressions in QML files into C++ classes. The latter compiles QML objects structures into C++ classes.		?
Qt Quick Compiler Extensions	Decreases the refactoring effort to improve the coverage of compilation. Up to 30% speed-up can be achieved in the startup and execution over time.		?
Qt D-Bus	Classes for inter-process communication over the D-Bus protocol.		?
Qt Quick	A declarative framework for building highly dynamic applications with custom user interfaces.		?
Qt Quick Calendar	The Calendar provides a collection of modular building blocks for creating calendars in Qt Quick.		?
Qt Quick Controls	Provides lightweight QML types for creating performant user interfaces for desktop, embedded, and mobile devices. These types employ a simple styling architecture and are very efficient.		?
Qt Quick Dialogs	Types for creating and interacting with system dialogs from a Qt Quick application.		?
Qt Quick Effect Maker	A standalone tool for creating high-performance shader effects for Qt Quick. Provides both a node and code editor to maximize productivity.		\QQEM (TBA)
Qt Quick Layouts	Layouts are items that are used to arrange Qt Quick 2 based items in the user interface.		?
Qt Quick Test	A unit test framework for QML applications, where the test cases are written as JavaScript functions.		?
Qt Quick TreeView	TreeView provides a QML type to display data from any QAbstractItemModel. It extends TableView with expandable and collapsible nodes, which can be used in either a list or a table model.		?
Qt Quick Ultralite	A graphics rendering engine to render QML applications on resource-constrained hardware with low memory requirements.		\QUL
Qt Quick Ultralite Compiler	Compiles QML files and graphical resources into C++ classes optimized for resources-constrained target platforms such as MCUs.		?
Qt Quick Ultralite Controls	Provides lightweight UI controls that can be customized to create performant user interfaces for embedded devices.		?
Qt Quick Ultralite Project Exporter	Exports Qt Quick Ultralite projects to project files for embedded IDEs such as Green Hills MULTI or IAR Embedded Workbench.		?
Qt Quick Widgets	Provides a C++ widget class for displaying a Qt Quick user interface.		?
Qt Remote Objects	Provides an easy to use mechanism for sharing a QObject's API (Properties/Signals/Slots) between processes or devices.		?
Qt Safe Renderer	Provides a UI rendering component that can be used to render safety-critical items, such as warning indicators, in functional safety systems.		?
Qt SCXML	Provides classes and tools for creating state machines from SCXML files and embedding them in applications.		?
Qt Sensors	Provides access to sensor hardware and motion gesture recognition.		?
Qt Serial Bus	Provides access to serial industrial bus interface. Currently the module supports the CAN bus and Modbus protocols.		?
Qt Serial Port	Provides access to hardware and virtual serial ports.		?
Qt Shader Tools	Tools for the cross-platform Qt shader pipeline that enable processing graphics and compute shaders to make them usable for Qt Quick and other components in the Qt ecosystem.		?
Qt SQL	Classes for database integration using SQL.		?
Qt SVG	Classes for displaying the contents of SVG files. Supports a subset of the SVG 1.2 Tiny standard.		?
Qt Test	Classes for unit testing Qt applications and libraries.		?
Qt UI Tools	Classes for loading QWidget-based forms created in Qt Designer dynamically, at runtime.		?
Qt Virtual Keyboard	A framework for implementing different input methods as well as a QML virtual keyboard. Supports localized keyboard layouts and custom visual themes.		?
Qt Visual Studio Tools	Integrates the Qt development tools into Microsoft Visual Studio.		?
Qt Wayland Compositor	Provides a framework to develop a Wayland compositor.		?
Qt WebChannel	Provides access to QObject or QML objects from HTML clients for seamless integration of Qt applications with HTML/JavaScript clients.		?
Qt WebEngine	Classes and functions for embedding web content in applications using the Chromium browser project.		?
Qt WebSockets	Provides WebSocket communication compliant with RFC 6455.		?
Qt WebView	Displays web content in a QML application by using APIs native to the platform, without the need to include a full web browser stack.		?
Qt Widgets	Classes to extend Qt GUI with C++ widgets.		?
Qt XML	C++ implementations of SAX and DOM.		?
Resource Compiler (rcc)	Embeds resources into Qt applications during the build process.		?
Tools for Active Qt	Enables Qt integration with the ActiveX components. Includes Interface Description Compiler (IDC), dumpcpp, and dumpdoc tools.		?
User Interface Compiler (uic)	Generates C++ code from user interface files.		?
Windows Deploy Qt (windowdeployqt)	This tool automates the Qt application deployment on Windows.		?
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Qt technical terms

Here you can find terms that were coined for Qt. For general terms, follow the Microsoft Style Guide.

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Terms under work

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