Qt for Beginners

New to Qt ? Don't know how to start ? This wiki page is for you ! It is a step by step tutorial that presents all specificities and features of Qt.

Warning : be sure to have some knowledge in C++ before starting ! If you are unsure about some notions, you might check the C++ reminder.

Remark : this tutorial series target mainly Qt4. Even if most of these tutorials are also valid for Qt5, the case of Qt5 is discussed in a separate part.

Introduction to Qt and Widgets

• Introduction
• Hello World
• A pretty button
• Signals and slots
• Signals and slots 2
• Exercise 1 : basis
• Finding information in the documentation
• How to layout widgets
• Useful widgets
• Using the main window and dialogs
• Qt designer
• Exercise 1 : widgets

Advanced topics

• Managing threads and processes
• Displaying information using model views
• Painting and the graphics scene
• XML parsing made easy
• Accessing databases
• Web in Qt application
• Exercise 2 : advanced Qt

Qt Quick

• Introduction
• Layout elements with anchors
• States and transitions, animations
• QML files organization
• Bind your Quick app with C++
• Extend Quick
• Exercise 3 : Qt Quick

Other topics

• C++ reminder
• Deploying my application
• Translate my application
• What's new in Qt 5