[dot] "C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3" Book

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From: binner <>
Dept: even-better-than-Qt-documentation
Date: Friday 06/Feb/2004, @12:59

&quot;C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3&quot; Book
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   Perhaps the recent KDE and Qt releases made you want to contribute to
KDE or to start your own Qt/KDE application? Then you may be interested
in the new "C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3" book
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0131240722/ref=ase_thekdesktopenvir/103-3775731-8087868?v=glance&s=books],
the first official Trolltech guide to Qt 3.2 programming. It's written
by Trolltech software engineer Jasmin Blanchette and Trolltech's
documentation manager Mark Summerfield, with a foreword by Matthias
Ettrich, Trolltech lead developer and founder of the KDE project.

     The table of contents
[http://vig.prenhall.com:8081/catalog/academic/product/0,4096,0131240722-TOC,00.html]
shows that book teaches every facet of Qt 3 programming, ranging from
basic user interfaces and layout managers to 2D/3D graphics,
drag-and-drop, signaling, networking, XML, database integration, even
internationalization and multithreading. The "Layout Management" chapter
is available as sample
[http://vig.prenhall.com/samplechapter/0131240722.pdf] in PDF format.
The accompanying CD contains the book's code examples, the Qt 3.2 Free
Editions for Unix/Linux/Mac OS X and a special Qt 3.2 Non-Commercial
Windows Edition
[http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=95499&cid=8181832] for
OpenSource developers together with a compiler (Borland C++ 5.5
Non-Commercial Edition).

     Alex Moskalyuk posted a review of the book
[http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/28/1749200] to Slashdot some
days ago.