Beginning with Qt: Introduction, Installing Qt Framework, Qt Hello world
INTRODUCTION TO Qt
Qt is a complete development environment widely used to create GUI applications.
This cross-platform tool is also able to create non gui apps.
Qt is used in the KDE desktop environment, and in other projects like virtualbox.
Qt development environment provides: (version numbers when this article was written)
- Qt libraries (version 4.6.3)
- Qt Creator IDE (version 2.0.0)
- Qt development tools
Qt is available under LGPL and GPL free software licenses. Nokia also provides the Qt commercial license to develop proprietary software.
Qt DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
Qt environment provides us with some development tools. e.g:
qmake
qmake tool helps us creating and managing .pro project files, and from them it creates Makefile files needed to build our projects.
qmake Manual
qmake Tutorial
Qt assistant
Qt assistant tool shows all available Qt help. It is a help browsing system.
Qt Assistant Manual
