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The Qt API is implemented in C+'', and provides additional features for easier cross-platform development. QML – introduced with Qt Quick is a CSS and JavaScript-like declarative, language designed to describe the user interface of a program: both what it looks like, and how it behaves. Bindings to Qt exist for several other languages, including Ada, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Python and Java™.
The Qt API is implemented in C+'', and provides additional features for easier cross-platform development. QML – introduced with Qt Quick is a CSS and JavaScript-like declarative, language designed to describe the user interface of a program: both what it looks like, and how it behaves. Bindings to Qt exist for several other languages, including Ada, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Python and Java™.
<br />h2. C''+ Development with Qt
 
h2. C''+ Development with Qt


Qt provides an intuitive C++ class library with a rich set of application build blocks for C++ development. Qt goes beyond C++ in the areas of inter-object communication and flexibility for advanced GUI development. Qt adds the following features to C+'':
Qt provides an intuitive C++ class library with a rich set of application build blocks for C++ development. Qt goes beyond C++ in the areas of inter-object communication and flexibility for advanced GUI development. Qt adds the following features to C+'':
<br />* Powerful mechanism for inter-object communication called &quot;signals and slots&amp;quot;:https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/signalsandslots.html<br />* Queryable and designable &quot;object properties &quot;:https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/properties.html#qt-s-property-system<br />* Powerful &quot;events and events filters &quot;:https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/eventsandfilters.html<br />* Contextual &quot;string translation for internationalization &quot;:https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/i18n.html<br />* Sophisticated interval driven &quot;timers&amp;quot;:https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/timers.html that make it possible to elegantly integrate many tasks in an event-driven GUI<br />* Hierarchical and queryable &quot;object trees&amp;quot;:https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/objecttrees.html that organize object ownership in a natural way<br />* &quot;Guarded pointers&amp;quot;:https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qpointer.html that are automatically set to 0 when the referenced object is destroyed, unlike normal C''+ pointers which become dangling pointers when their objects are destroyed<br />* A &quot;dynamic cast &quot;:https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/metaobjects.html works across library boundaries.
 
* Powerful mechanism for inter-object communication called "signals and slots":https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/signalsandslots.html
* Queryable and designable "object properties ":https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/properties.html#qt-s-property-system
* Powerful "events and events filters ":https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/eventsandfilters.html
* Contextual "string translation for internationalization ":https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/i18n.html
* Sophisticated interval driven "timers":https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/timers.html that make it possible to elegantly integrate many tasks in an event-driven GUI
* Hierarchical and queryable "object trees":https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/objecttrees.html that organize object ownership in a natural way
* "Guarded pointers":https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qpointer.html that are automatically set to 0 when the referenced object is destroyed, unlike normal C''+ pointers which become dangling pointers when their objects are destroyed
* A "dynamic cast ":https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/metaobjects.html works across library boundaries.


== QML Development with Qt Quick ==
== QML Development with Qt Quick ==
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* JavaScript, HTML and CSS skills can be used to code complete apps
* JavaScript, HTML and CSS skills can be used to code complete apps
* Optimized for touch-based, animated mobile UIs
* Optimized for touch-based, animated mobile UIs
* Includes a set of graphical and behavioral building blocks: &quot;QML Elements &quot;:http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/qdeclarativeelements.html
* Includes a set of graphical and behavioral building blocks: "QML Elements ":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/qdeclarativeelements.html
* No C++ knowledge required for UI creation, but can be extended with C++
* No C++ knowledge required for UI creation, but can be extended with C++


&quot;Find out more about Qt Quick&amp;quot;:http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/qdeclarativeintroduction.html
"Find out more about Qt Quick":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/qdeclarativeintroduction.html


== These are third party language bindings for Qt ==
== These are third party language bindings for Qt ==


=== &quot;PySide: Python for Qt&amp;quot;:http://www.pyside.org (LGPL) ===
=== "PySide: Python for Qt":http://www.pyside.org (LGPL) ===


* [[Category:LanguageBindings::PySide|Wiki]]
* [[Category:LanguageBindings::PySide|Wiki]]
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* [[PySideDevelopment|Development]]
* [[PySideDevelopment|Development]]
* [[PySideDownloads|Downloads]]
* [[PySideDownloads|Downloads]]
* &quot;Mailing list&amp;quot;:http://lists.qt.io/mailman/listinfo/pyside
* "Mailing list":http://lists.qt.io/mailman/listinfo/pyside
* &quot;Source code&amp;quot;:http://qt.gitorious.org/pyside
* "Source code":http://qt.gitorious.org/pyside
* &quot;Bug Tracker&amp;quot;:https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE
* "Bug Tracker":https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE


=== &quot;PyQt&amp;quot;:http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/news (GPL/commercial) ===
=== "PyQt":http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/news (GPL/commercial) ===


* &quot;Tutorials&amp;quot;:https://wiki.python.org/moin/PyQt/Tutorials
* "Tutorials":https://wiki.python.org/moin/PyQt/Tutorials
* &quot;API Documentation&amp;quot;:http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/classes.html
* "API Documentation":http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/classes.html
* &quot;Reference Guide&amp;quot;:http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/index.html
* "Reference Guide":http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/index.html
* &quot;Book&amp;quot;:http://www.qtrac.eu/pyqtbook.html
* "Book":http://www.qtrac.eu/pyqtbook.html
* &quot;Whitepaper&amp;quot;:http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/whitepaper
* "Whitepaper":http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/whitepaper


=== &quot;Qt for Java&amp;quot;:http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-jambi (QtJambi, Windows/Mac/Linux) ===
=== "Qt for Java":http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-jambi (QtJambi, Windows/Mac/Linux) ===


Qt Jambi – Qt bindings to the Java programming language – is maintained by the community. You can find more information from http://qt-jambi.org.
Qt Jambi – Qt bindings to the Java programming language – is maintained by the community. You can find more information from http://qt-jambi.org.


* &quot;Jambi Community&amp;quot;:http://qt-jambi.org/
* "Jambi Community":http://qt-jambi.org/
* &quot;Old tutorial&amp;quot;:http://doc.qt.digia.com/qtjambi-4.4/html/com/trolltech/qt/qtjambi-tutorial.html
* "Old tutorial":http://doc.qt.digia.com/qtjambi-4.4/html/com/trolltech/qt/qtjambi-tutorial.html
* &quot;Old API Javadoc&amp;quot;:http://doc.qt.digia.com/qtjambi-4.4/html/index.html
* "Old API Javadoc":http://doc.qt.digia.com/qtjambi-4.4/html/index.html


=== &quot;Qt for Ruby&amp;quot;:http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Languages/Ruby (QtRuby) ===
=== "Qt for Ruby":http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Languages/Ruby (QtRuby) ===


The project provides complete bindings to both the KDE API and the Qt APIs. The Korundum package includes both a QtRuby Qt-only binding along with the full combined Qt/KDE one. The QtRuby package contains just Qt bindings with no dependencies on KDE.
The project provides complete bindings to both the KDE API and the Qt APIs. The Korundum package includes both a QtRuby Qt-only binding along with the full combined Qt/KDE one. The QtRuby package contains just Qt bindings with no dependencies on KDE.


* &quot;Tutorial&amp;quot;:http://www.darshancomputing.com/qt4-qtruby-tutorial/
* "Tutorial":http://www.darshancomputing.com/qt4-qtruby-tutorial/
* &quot;Book&amp;quot;:http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/ctrubyqt/ (for Qt 3)
* "Book":http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/ctrubyqt/ (for Qt 3)


=== &quot;Qt for BASIC&amp;quot;:http://www.kbasic.com/ (KBasic) ===
=== "Qt for BASIC":http://www.kbasic.com/ (KBasic) ===


KBasic uses Qt as its toolkit to provide cross-platform abilities. KBasic is a further BASIC dialect and is related to VB.NET™, Visual Basic®, Visual Basic for Application® and Java™. It combines several features and includes built-in backward support for QBasic®.
KBasic uses Qt as its toolkit to provide cross-platform abilities. KBasic is a further BASIC dialect and is related to VB.NET™, Visual Basic®, Visual Basic for Application® and Java™. It combines several features and includes built-in backward support for QBasic®.


=== &quot;Qt for Ada 2005&amp;quot;:http://www.qtada.com/ (QtAda) ===
=== "Qt for Ada 2005":http://www.qtada.com/ (QtAda) ===


QtAda is an Ada2005 language prividing bindings to the Qt libraries and a set of useful tools. QtAda supports Qt version 4.6 and later.
QtAda is an Ada2005 language prividing bindings to the Qt libraries and a set of useful tools. QtAda supports Qt version 4.6 and later.
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=== Perl bindings ===
=== Perl bindings ===


==== &quot;official PerlQt and PerlKDE&amp;quot;:https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdebindings/perl ====
==== "official PerlQt and PerlKDE":https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdebindings/perl ====


This is what the Linux distros ship. Expect updates for Qt5 in 2013. Subscribe to the &quot;kde-bindings list&amp;quot;:http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-bindings for news.
This is what the Linux distros ship. Expect updates for Qt5 in 2013. Subscribe to the "kde-bindings list":http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-bindings for news.


This repository used to be at &quot;Google code&amp;quot;:http://code.google.com/p/perlqt4/, then moved to KDE in 2012. Some outdated code snapshots are on &quot;CPAN&amp;quot;:http://search.cpan.org/~cburel/; prefer the KDE repository.
This repository used to be at "Google code":http://code.google.com/p/perlqt4/, then moved to KDE in 2012. Some outdated code snapshots are on "CPAN":http://search.cpan.org/~cburel/; prefer the KDE repository.


==== &quot;Vadim Likhota bindings&amp;quot;:http://search.cpan.org/~vadiml/ ====
==== "Vadim Likhota bindings":http://search.cpan.org/~vadiml/ ====


One-man effort, last updated 2008. &quot;opendesktop.org mirror&amp;quot;:http://www.opendesktop.org/content/show.php/?action=content&amp;amp;content=69748
One-man effort, last updated 2008. "opendesktop.org mirror":http://www.opendesktop.org/content/show.php/?action=content&amp;amp;content=69748


==== &quot;Dongxu Ma bindings&amp;quot;:http://search.cpan.org/~dongxu/ ====
==== "Dongxu Ma bindings":http://search.cpan.org/~dongxu/ ====


One-man effort, last update 2012. &quot;GitHub mirror&amp;quot;:https://github.com/dxma/cpan/wiki
One-man effort, last update 2012. "GitHub mirror":https://github.com/dxma/cpan/wiki


==== &quot;PerlQt3&amp;quot;:http://sf.net/projects/perlqt ====
==== "PerlQt3":http://sf.net/projects/perlqt ====


Outdated, Qt3 only.
Outdated, Qt3 only.


==== &quot;PerlQt&amp;quot;:http://search.cpan.org/dist/PerlQt/ ====
==== "PerlQt":http://search.cpan.org/dist/PerlQt/ ====


Outdated, Qt2 and Qt1 only.
Outdated, Qt2 and Qt1 only.
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=== &quot;Qt for C#&quot;:http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Languages/QtSharp (Qyoto)<br />Qyoto makes it possible to develop Qt and KDE applications using C#, or any other .NET language. Qyoto uses SMOKE, and offers access to almost all Qt and KDE classes. ===
=== "Qt for C#":http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Languages/QtSharp (Qyoto)
Qyoto makes it possible to develop Qt and KDE applications using C#, or any other .NET language. Qyoto uses SMOKE, and offers access to almost all Qt and KDE classes. ===


=== &quot;Qt for D&amp;quot;:http://www.dsource.org/projects/qtd (QtD) ===
=== "Qt for D":http://www.dsource.org/projects/qtd (QtD) ===


QtD is a binding of the Qt framework to the &quot;D programming language version 2.&quot;:http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/index.html
QtD is a binding of the Qt framework to the "D programming language version 2.":http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/index.html


=== &quot;Qt for Pascal&amp;quot;:http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Qt4_binding (FPC Qt4 Binding) ===
=== "Qt for Pascal":http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Qt4_binding (FPC Qt4 Binding) ===


The Free Pascal Qt4 binding allows Free Pascal to interface with the C++ Library Qt. This binding does not cover the whole Qt4 framework but only the classes needed by the Cross Platform Lazarus IDE to use Qt as a Widget set. More &quot;info&amp;quot;:http://users.telenet.be/Jan.Van.hijfte/qtforfpc/fpcqt4.html
The Free Pascal Qt4 binding allows Free Pascal to interface with the C++ Library Qt. This binding does not cover the whole Qt4 framework but only the classes needed by the Cross Platform Lazarus IDE to use Qt as a Widget set. More "info":http://users.telenet.be/Jan.Van.hijfte/qtforfpc/fpcqt4.html


=== &quot;Qt for Lua&amp;quot;:http://www.nongnu.org/libqtlua/ (QtLua) ===
=== "Qt for Lua":http://www.nongnu.org/libqtlua/ (QtLua) ===


The QtLua library are trying to make Qt4 applications scriptable using the Lua scripting language as an alternative to the QtScript module.
The QtLua library are trying to make Qt4 applications scriptable using the Lua scripting language as an alternative to the QtScript module.


=== &quot;Qt for Haskell&amp;quot;:http://qthaskell.berlios.de/ (qtHaskell) ===
=== "Qt for Haskell":http://qthaskell.berlios.de/ (qtHaskell) ===


The qtHaskell project provides a set of Haskell bindings for Qt. Haskell programmers can access the &quot;Signals and Slots&amp;quot; interface logic, design interfaces using Qt Designer and write scripted applications using the Qt ECMA/Javascript engine.
The qtHaskell project provides a set of Haskell bindings for Qt. Haskell programmers can access the "Signals and Slots" interface logic, design interfaces using Qt Designer and write scripted applications using the Qt ECMA/Javascript engine.


=== &quot;Qt Quick for Haskell&amp;quot;:http://www.gekkou.co.uk/software/hsqml/ (HsQML) ===
=== "Qt Quick for Haskell":http://www.gekkou.co.uk/software/hsqml/ (HsQML) ===


HsQML provides a Haskell binding to the Qt Quick framework. It allows you to write graphical applications where the front-end is written in Qt Quick's QML language (incorporating JavaScript) and the back-end is written in Haskell.
HsQML provides a Haskell binding to the Qt Quick framework. It allows you to write graphical applications where the front-end is written in Qt Quick's QML language (incorporating JavaScript) and the back-end is written in Haskell.


=== &quot;Qt Quick for OCaml&amp;quot;:http://kakadu.github.io/lablqt/ (lablqt) ===
=== "Qt Quick for OCaml":http://kakadu.github.io/lablqt/ (lablqt) ===


=== &quot;Qt for PHP&amp;quot;:http://sourceforge.net/projects/php-qt/ (PHP-Qt) ===
=== "Qt for PHP":http://sourceforge.net/projects/php-qt/ (PHP-Qt) ===


=== &quot;Qt for Chicken Scheme&amp;quot;:http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/qt (Qt 4 egg) ===
=== "Qt for Chicken Scheme":http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/qt (Qt 4 egg) ===


An incomplete binding which supports loading UI files, binding to GUIs thus instantiated, and networking and dbus functionality.
An incomplete binding which supports loading UI files, binding to GUIs thus instantiated, and networking and dbus functionality.


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 08:36, 25 February 2015

h1. Programming Language Support & Language Bindings

The Qt API is implemented in C+, and provides additional features for easier cross-platform development. QML – introduced with Qt Quick is a CSS and JavaScript-like declarative, language designed to describe the user interface of a program: both what it looks like, and how it behaves. Bindings to Qt exist for several other languages, including Ada, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Python and Java™.

h2. C+ Development with Qt

Qt provides an intuitive C++ class library with a rich set of application build blocks for C++ development. Qt goes beyond C++ in the areas of inter-object communication and flexibility for advanced GUI development. Qt adds the following features to C+:

QML Development with Qt Quick

QML is a declarative, JavaScript-based language designed to describe the user interface of a program: both what it looks like, and how it behaves. In QML, a user interface is specified as a tree of objects with properties.

  • JavaScript, HTML and CSS skills can be used to code complete apps
  • Optimized for touch-based, animated mobile UIs
  • Includes a set of graphical and behavioral building blocks: "QML Elements ":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/qdeclarativeelements.html
  • No C++ knowledge required for UI creation, but can be extended with C++

"Find out more about Qt Quick":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/qdeclarativeintroduction.html

These are third party language bindings for Qt

"PySide: Python for Qt":http://www.pyside.org (LGPL)

"PyQt":http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/news (GPL/commercial)

"Qt for Java":http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-jambi (QtJambi, Windows/Mac/Linux)

Qt Jambi – Qt bindings to the Java programming language – is maintained by the community. You can find more information from http://qt-jambi.org.

"Qt for Ruby":http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Languages/Ruby (QtRuby)

The project provides complete bindings to both the KDE API and the Qt APIs. The Korundum package includes both a QtRuby Qt-only binding along with the full combined Qt/KDE one. The QtRuby package contains just Qt bindings with no dependencies on KDE.

"Qt for BASIC":http://www.kbasic.com/ (KBasic)

KBasic uses Qt as its toolkit to provide cross-platform abilities. KBasic is a further BASIC dialect and is related to VB.NET™, Visual Basic®, Visual Basic for Application® and Java™. It combines several features and includes built-in backward support for QBasic®.

"Qt for Ada 2005":http://www.qtada.com/ (QtAda)

QtAda is an Ada2005 language prividing bindings to the Qt libraries and a set of useful tools. QtAda supports Qt version 4.6 and later.



Perl bindings

"official PerlQt and PerlKDE":https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdebindings/perl

This is what the Linux distros ship. Expect updates for Qt5 in 2013. Subscribe to the "kde-bindings list":http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-bindings for news.

This repository used to be at "Google code":http://code.google.com/p/perlqt4/, then moved to KDE in 2012. Some outdated code snapshots are on "CPAN":http://search.cpan.org/~cburel/; prefer the KDE repository.

"Vadim Likhota bindings":http://search.cpan.org/~vadiml/

One-man effort, last updated 2008. "opendesktop.org mirror":http://www.opendesktop.org/content/show.php/?action=content&amp;content=69748

"Dongxu Ma bindings":http://search.cpan.org/~dongxu/

One-man effort, last update 2012. "GitHub mirror":https://github.com/dxma/cpan/wiki

"PerlQt3":http://sf.net/projects/perlqt

Outdated, Qt3 only.

"PerlQt":http://search.cpan.org/dist/PerlQt/

Outdated, Qt2 and Qt1 only.



=== "Qt for C#":http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Languages/QtSharp (Qyoto) Qyoto makes it possible to develop Qt and KDE applications using C#, or any other .NET language. Qyoto uses SMOKE, and offers access to almost all Qt and KDE classes. ===

"Qt for D":http://www.dsource.org/projects/qtd (QtD)

QtD is a binding of the Qt framework to the "D programming language version 2.":http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/index.html

"Qt for Pascal":http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Qt4_binding (FPC Qt4 Binding)

The Free Pascal Qt4 binding allows Free Pascal to interface with the C++ Library Qt. This binding does not cover the whole Qt4 framework but only the classes needed by the Cross Platform Lazarus IDE to use Qt as a Widget set. More "info":http://users.telenet.be/Jan.Van.hijfte/qtforfpc/fpcqt4.html

"Qt for Lua":http://www.nongnu.org/libqtlua/ (QtLua)

The QtLua library are trying to make Qt4 applications scriptable using the Lua scripting language as an alternative to the QtScript module.

"Qt for Haskell":http://qthaskell.berlios.de/ (qtHaskell)

The qtHaskell project provides a set of Haskell bindings for Qt. Haskell programmers can access the "Signals and Slots" interface logic, design interfaces using Qt Designer and write scripted applications using the Qt ECMA/Javascript engine.

"Qt Quick for Haskell":http://www.gekkou.co.uk/software/hsqml/ (HsQML)

HsQML provides a Haskell binding to the Qt Quick framework. It allows you to write graphical applications where the front-end is written in Qt Quick's QML language (incorporating JavaScript) and the back-end is written in Haskell.

"Qt Quick for OCaml":http://kakadu.github.io/lablqt/ (lablqt)

"Qt for PHP":http://sourceforge.net/projects/php-qt/ (PHP-Qt)

"Qt for Chicken Scheme":http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/qt (Qt 4 egg)

An incomplete binding which supports loading UI files, binding to GUIs thus instantiated, and networking and dbus functionality.

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