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Qt5 C++ GUI Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Qt5 C++ GUI Programming Cookbook Design and build a functional, appealing, and user-friendly graphical user interface

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783280278
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Qt5 C++ GUI Programming Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Look and Feel Customization FREE CHAPTER 2. States and Animations 3. QPainter and 2D Graphics 4. OpenGL Implementation 5. Building a Touch Screen Application with Qt5 6. XML Parsing Made Easy 7. Conversion Library 8. Accessing Databases 9. Developing a Web Application Using Qt Web Engine Index

Animation in QML


Qt allows us to easily animate a UI component without writing a bunch of code. In this example, we will learn how to make our program's UI more interesting by applying animations to it.

How to do it…

  1. Once again, we will start everything from scratch. Therefore, create a new Qt Quick application project in Qt Creator and open up MainForm.ui.qml.

  2. Go to the Imports tab in the Library window and add a Qt Quick module called QtQuick.Controls to your project.

  3. After that, you will see a new category appear in the QML Types tab called Qt Quick - Controls, which contains many new widgets that can be placed on the canvas.

  4. Next, drag three button widgets to the canvas and set their height to 45. Then, go to the Layout tab on the Properties window and enable both the left and right anchors for all the three button widgets. Make sure the target for the anchors are set to Parent and the margins remain as 0. This will make the buttons resize horizontally according to the width of the main window...

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