<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <!-- /home/espenr/tmp/qt-3.3.8-espenr-2499/qt-x11-free-3.3.8/doc/how-to-learn-qt.doc:36 --> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title>How to Learn TQt</title> <style type="text/css"><!-- fn { margin-left: 1cm; text-indent: -1cm; } a:link { color: #004faf; text-decoration: none } a:visited { color: #672967; text-decoration: none } body { background: #ffffff; color: black; } --></style> </head> <body> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr bgcolor="#E5E5E5"> <td valign=center> <a href="index.html"> <font color="#004faf">Home</font></a> | <a href="classes.html"> <font color="#004faf">All Classes</font></a> | <a href="mainclasses.html"> <font color="#004faf">Main Classes</font></a> | <a href="annotated.html"> <font color="#004faf">Annotated</font></a> | <a href="groups.html"> <font color="#004faf">Grouped Classes</font></a> | <a href="functions.html"> <font color="#004faf">Functions</font></a> </td> <td align="right" valign="center"><img src="logo32.png" align="right" width="64" height="32" border="0"></td></tr></table><h1 align=center>How to Learn TQt</h1> <p> We assume that you already know C++! <p> The best way to learn TQt is to read the official TQt book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0131240722/trolltech/"> C++ GUI Programming with TQt 3 (ISBN 0-13-124072-2)</a>. This book provides comprehensive coverage of TQt programming all the way from "Hello TQt" to advanced features like multithreading, 2D and 3D graphics, networking, and XML. <p> <a href="http://www.trolltech.com/training/">http://www.trolltech.com/training/</a>{TQt and TQtopia training} is also available. This takes the form of open enrollment courses for the public and on-site training for you and your colleagues. <p> If you can't get hold of the official book, or if you can't wait for it to arrive then here is our suggested learning programme. <p> Read the <a href="http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/whitepaper.html">TQt Whitepaper</a> first. This provides an overview of TQt's facilities and has snippets of code which demonstrate the TQt approach to programming. It gives you the 'big picture'. <p> If you want to program purely in C++, designing your interfaces in code without the aid of any design tools, read the tutorials. <a href="tutorial.html">Tutorial #1</a> is designed to get you into TQt programming, with the emphasis on working code rather than being a tour of features. <a href="tutorial2.html">Tutorial #2</a> presents a more realistic example, demonstrating how to code menus, toolbars, file loading and saving, dialogs, etc. <p> If you want to design your user interfaces using a design tool, then read at least the first few chapters of the <a href="designer-manual.html">TQt Designer manual</a>. After this, it is still worthwhile trying the pure C++ Tutorials (<a href="tutorial.html">Tutorial #1</a> and <a href="tutorial2.html">Tutorial #2</a>) mentioned above. <p> By now you'll have produced some small working applications and have a broad feel for TQt programming. You could start work on your own projects straight away, but we recommend reading a couple of key overviews to deepen your understanding of TQt: the <a href="object.html">TQt Object Model</a> and <a href="signalsandslots.html">Signals and Slots</a>. <p> At this point we recommend looking at the <a href="overviews-list.html">overviews</a> and reading those that are relevant to your projects. You may also find it useful to browse the source code of the <a href="examples.html">examples</a> that have things in common with your projects. You can also read TQt's source code since this is supplied. <p> If you run the <tt>demo</tt> application (in <tt>$TQTDIR/examples/demo</tt>) you'll see many of TQt's widgets in action. <p> TQt comes with extensive documentation, with hypertext cross-references throughout, so you can easily click your way to whatever interests you. The part of the documentation that you'll probably use the most is the <a href="index.html">API Reference</a>. Each link provides a different way of navigating the API Reference; try them all to see which work best for you. You might also like to try <a href="assistant.html">TQt Assistant</a>: this tool is supplied with TQt and provides access to the entire TQt API, and it provides a full text search facility. There are also a growing number of <a href="http://www.trolltech.com/developer/books.html">TQt books</a>. <p> You should now be ready to ground-break: good luck, and have fun! <p> <!-- eof --> <p><address><hr><div align=center> <table width=100% cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td>Copyright © 2007 <a href="troll.html">Trolltech</a><td align=center><a href="trademarks.html">Trademarks</a> <td align=right><div align=right>TQt 3.3.8</div> </table></div></address></body> </html>