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
Qt Design Studio	A UI design and development environment for creating animated user interfaces.		\QDS
Qt Designer	A tool for designing and building graphical user interfaces (GUIs) using Qt Widgets.		\QD
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.		?
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 Runtime	A utility to load and display QML documents.		?
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.		?
Qt Creator	A cross-platform, complete integrated development environment (IDE) for application developers to create applications for multiple desktop, embedded, and mobile device platforms.		?

Qt technical terms

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

Name	Description	Do not use	Macro	Status

Terms under work

Not sure which term to pick? Did you check the Microsoft Style Guide? If you can not find it there, add it here, so we can decide together.

Name	Description	Do not use	Macro	Status