Preface xix. Preface to the Second Edition xxii. Acknowledgments xxv. About the
Authors xxx. Part I: Design Patterns and Qt 4. 1. Chapter 1: C++ Introduction. 3.
Design
An Introduction to
Patterns in C++ with
Qt,
2nd Edition
Alan Ezust and Paul Ezust
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Contents
Foreword
xv
Preface
Preface
xix to
the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
xxv
About the Authors
Part I:
Design
Chapter
Patterns and
xxii
xxx
Qt 4
1: C++ Introduction
1 3
1.1
Overview of C++
3
1.2
A Brief History of C++
4
1.3
C++ First
5
1.4
Standard
1.5
Introduction
1.6
qmake,
1.7
Getting Help Online
24
1.8
Strings
24
1.9
Streams
26
1.10
File Streams
29
1.11
Qt Dialogs for
1.12
Identifiers, Types, and Literals
37
1.13
C++
Simple Types
40
1.14
The
Keyword
52
1.15
Pointers and
Example and
Input to
Output
Functions
Project Files, and
User
Makefile
Input/Output
const
Memory Access
8 11 17
34
54
vii
viii
An Introduction
to
Design
Patterns in C++ with
1.16
Reference Variables
1.17
const*
1.18
Review
Chapter
2:
and
Qt"1, 2nd Edition
60 61
*const
64
Questions
Top of the
67
class
2.1
First, There Was
2.2
Class Definitions
69
2.3
Member Access
71
2.4
Encapsulation
2.5
Introduction
2.6
Friends of
2.7
Constructors
77
2.8
Destructors
80
2.9
The
2.10
Class Declarations and Definitions
86
2.11
Copy Constructors
88
2.12
Conversions
2.13
const
2.14
Subobjects
2.15
Exercise:
2.16
Review
Chapter 3:
a
67
struct
Specifiers
74 UML
to
75
Class
Keyword
76
81
static
and
Assignment Operators
92
Member Functions
95 97
Classes
98
Questions
Introduction
108 to
Qt
113
3.1
Style Guidelines, Naming Conventions
114
3.2
The
116
3.3
QtCreator—An IDE for Qt
3.4
Exercises: Introduction
3.5
Review
Chapter
Qt Core Module
to
Qt
Questions
4: Lists
Programming
119 120 121 122
4.1
Introduction
4.2
Iterators
123
4.3
Relationships
129
to
Containers
122
Contents
4.4
Exercise:
4.5
Review
Relationships
ix
132
Questions
134
Chapter 5: Functions
135
5.1
Overloading Functions
135
5.2
Optional Arguments
138
5.3
Operator Overloading
141
5.4
Parameter
Passing by Value
146
5.5
Parameter
Passing by
148
5.6
References
to const
5.7
Function
5.8
Returning References from
5.9
Overloading
5.10
inline
Return
on
152
Values
154 Functions
Functions with
5.12
Exercise:
5.13
Review
155
const
158
Variable-Length Argument Lists
Encryption
Questions
167
6: Inheritance and
Polymorphism
Simple
6.2
Derivation with
Polymorphism
6.3
Derivation from
an
6.4
Inheritance
6.6
162 164
6.1
6.5
154
Functions
5.11
Chapter
Reference
168
Derivation
168 177
Abstract Base Class
Design Overloading, Hiding,
184 189
and
Overriding
191
Constructors, Destructors, and Copy Assignment Operators
193
6.7
Processing
6.8
Containers
6.9
Managed Containers, Composites,
6.10
Containers of Pointers
210
6.11
Review
228
Command-Line
Arguments
198 204
and
Questions
Chapter 7: Libraries and Design
Patterns
Aggregates
206
234
7.1
Building and Reusing Libraries
236
7.2
Exercise:
244
Installing
Libraries
x
An Introduction
Design
to
Patterns in C++ with
Qt'",
2nd Edition
7.3
Frameworks and
7.4
Design Patterns
248
7.5
Review
257
247
Components
Questions
Chapter 8: QObject, QApplication, Signals, and Slots
259
8.1
Values and
Objects
263
8.2
Composite
Pattern: Parents and Children
264
8.3
QApplication and the Event
8.4
q_object and
8.5
Signals
8.6
QObject
8.7
QTestLib
8.8
Exercises: QObject, QApplication,
8.9
Review
moc:
A
272
Loop
checklist
274
and Slots
275
Lifecycle
277 277
Signals, and
Slots
Questions
282 282
Chapter 9: Widgets and Designer
283
9.1
284
Widget Categories
9.2
Designer
9.3
Dialogs
9.4
Form
Introduction
286 290
Layout
292 and Resources
9.5
Icons,
9.6
Layout of Widgets
298
9.7
Designer Integration with Code
306
9.8
Exercise:
Forms
313
9.9
The Event
Loop: Revisited
314
9.10
Paint Events,
9.11
Review
Chapter
Images,
Input
295
Drawing Images
323
Questions
325
10: Main Windows and Actions
10.1
QActions, QMenus, and QMenuBars
10.2
Regions
and QDockWidgets
10.3
QSettings:
10.4
Clipboard
Saving
and
327 337
Restoring Application
and Data Transfer
326
Operations
State
339
341
Contents
xi
10.5
The Command Pattern
343
10.6
tr() and
351
10.7
Exercises: Main Windows and Actions
352
10.8
Review
Questions
353
Chapter 11: Generics and Containers
355
11.1
Generics and
355
11.2
Generics,
11.3
Sorted
11.4
Function Pointers and Functors
11.5
Flyweight
11.6
Exercise: Generics
375
11.7
Review
376
Chapter 12.1
Internationalization
Templates
Algorithms,
and
362
Operators
Map Example Pattern:
365 368
Implicitly Shared Classes
371
Questions
12: Meta
Objects, Properties,
QMetaObject—The
MetaObject
and Reflective
Programming
Pattern
Identification and qobject_cast
12.2
Type
12.3
Q_PROPERTY
12.4
QVariant Class:
12.5
Dynamic Properties
Macro—Describing QObject Properties Accessing Properties
378 378 380 383
386 389
12.6
MetaTypes, Declaring,
12.7
invokeMethod ()
396
12.8
Exercises: Reflection
397
12.9
Review
397
Chapter
and
Registering
Questions
13: Models and Views
394
399
13.1
Model-View-Controller (MVC)
400
13.2
Qt Models and Views
402
13.3
Table Models
414
13.4
Tree Models
424
13.5
Smarter Pointers
429
13.6
Exercises: Models and Views
431
13.7
Review
433
Questions
xii
An Introduction
Chapter
Design
to
Patterns in C++ with
14: Validation and
Qt,
2nd Edition
Regular Expressions
434
14.1
Input Masks
435
14.2
Validators
438
14.3
Regular Expressions
440
14.4
Regular Expression
14.5
Subclassing
14.6
Exercises: Validation and
14.7
Review
Chapter
15:
Validation
449
451
QValidator
Regular Expressions
454
Questions
456
Parsing XML
457 460
15.1
The
Qt XML Parsers
15.2
SAX
Parsing
15.3
XML, Tree
15.4
XML Streams
476
15.5
Review
479
Chapter
462
Structures, and DOM
466
Questions
16: More
Design
Patterns
481
16.1
Creational Patterns
481
16.2
Memento Pattern
491
16.3
Facade Pattern
498
16.4
Review
Questions
505
Concurrency
506
Chapter
17:
17.1
QProcess and Process Control
17.2
QThread
17.3
Exercises: QThread and QtConcurrent
536
17.4
Review
537
Chapter
and
506 522
QtConcurrent
Questions
18: Database
Programming
539
18.1
QSqlDatabase:
18.2
Queries and Result Sets
546
18.3
Database Models
548
18.4
Review
549
Connecting to SQL
Questions
from
Qt
541
Contents
Part II: C++
Chapter
xiii
Language Reference
550
19: Types and Expressions
•
552
19.1
Operators
553
19.2
Statements and Control Structures
557
19.3
Evaluation of Logical
564
19.4
Enumerations
565
19.5
Signed and Unsigned Integral Types
567
19.6
Standard
570
19.7
Explicit Conversions
19.8
Safer Typecasting
19.9
Overloading Special Operators
19.10 Runtime
Using ANSI
19.13 Review
Chapter
20:
574 C++ Typecasts
Types
587
Operators
and
574 581
Identification
19.11 Member Selection 19.12 Exercises:
Conversions
Expression
Type
Expressions
590
Expressions
Questions
592 594
Scope and Storage Class
595
20.1
Declarations and Definitions
595
20.2
Identifier
597
20.3
Storage
20.4
Namespaces
610
20.5
Review
615
Chapter
21:
Scope
Class
606
Questions
Memory Access
617
Pathology
21.1
Pointer
21.2
Further Pointer Pathology with
21.3
Memory Access Summary
623
21.4
Introduction
624
21.5
Pointer Arithmetic
626
21.6
Arrays, Functions, and Return Values
627
21.7
Different Kinds of Arrays
629
to
618
Heap Memory
Arrays
620
xiv
An Introduction
to
Design
Patterns in C++ with Qt, 2nd Edition
21.8
Valid Pointer
Operations
629
21.9
Arrays and Memory: Important Points
632
21.10 Exercises: 21.11
Review
Chapter 22:
633
Memory Access
634
Questions
Inheritance in Detail
Pointers,
635 Tables
635
22.1
virtual
22.2
Polymorphism and
22.3
Multiple
22.4
public, protected, and private Derivation
22.5
Review
Part III:
virtual
virtual
Destructors
638
Inheritance
642
650 652
Questions
653
Programming Assignments
Chapter 23: MP3 Jukebox Assignments
655
23.1
Phonon/MultiMediaKit
657
23.2
Pkylist
657
23.3
Playlists
658
23.4
Source Selector
659
23.5
Database
23.6
Star
23.7
Sorting, Filtering, and Editing Playlists
Setup
Playlists
661 661
Delegates
661
Appendix A:
C++ Reserved Keywords
662
Appendix B:
Standard Headers
664
Appendix C: Development Tools Appendix D: Alan's Quick Start Guide
666 to
Debian for
Programmers
691
Appendix E: C++/Qt Setup
698
Bibliography
706
Index
709
