Get Your Organization Up To Speed With Onsite Qt QuickStarts

Qt QuickStart seminars encapsulate popular Qt topics into half-day sessions packed with how-tos and tricks to quickly get any organization up to speed. ICS can bring any of our Qt QuickStart seminars on-site to your organization if you have a minimum of ten developers to train. It's the fastest way to deliver a baseline of Qt knowlege to your entire team.

To schedule an on-site Qt QuickStart for your organization, email ICS or call 617.621.0060. We can customize any of these topics for you, or if you have another topic in mind let us know.

Qt QuickStart - An Introduction to Qt

This intensive introduction to Qt will help developers who are already using Qt get the most out of it. It will also help those who are considering using Qt in their next project make an informed decision.

The topics to be covered include:

Intro to the Qt Framework
Using signals and slots
Layout managers vs. container widgets
Turbo coding new widgets: handling mouse, keyboard, and screen events
Advanced graphics using drawing primitives
Application control center: main windows, menus, toolbars, and actions
Introduction to Qt containers

Qt Embedded for Application Developers

Qt Embedded builds on the Qt API to deliver a complete application framework. This seminar will provide a working knowledge of the powers and capabilities of Qt Enbedded, specifically focusing on application development for embedded devices.

The topics to be covered include:

Introduction to Qt Embedded
Embedded development environment
Building and configuring Qt Embedded
Keyboards, mice, and fonts
Qt Embedded display drivers
Interprocess communication
Virtual framebuffer
Deploying Qt Embedded applications

Migrating from Qt 3 to Qt 4

Migrating from Qt 3 to Qt 4 is an important topic since many developers have applications which need to be migrated to the new Qt 4 API. This presentation will cover the basic steps of migration, the provided porting tools, and areas of potential difficulty. Some sample programs from Qt 3 will be used as examples.

The topics to be covered include:

Benefits of Qt 4
Qt 3 Support module
Porting to Qt 4
Keyboards, mice, and fonts
New model/view classes
New container classes and iterators
Qt Designer

Multi-threaded Programming

The QThreads seminar introduces C++ programmers to an object-oriented approach to multi-threaded programming, taking advantage of the inter-object communication capabilities of Qt. This seminar focuses on helping programmers build reliable multi-threaded programs through the use of encapsulation and inter-thread events.

The topics to be covered include:

Introduction to threads programming
QThreads
Threading objects and affinity
Background worker
Background thread waiting for data and updating a widget
Joining the thread back in
Threads event look
Queued vs. direct connections

Using Qt WebKit

WebKit is an open source web browser engine. Using Qt WebKit, developers can maintain complete control over the browser environment, and blend web, local content and services in a single rich application. The topics in this seminar include:

WebKit Overview
Network Access
Requests and Cookies
Qt WebKit Architecture
Pages and Frames
History and Settings
Plugins
JavaScript
Beyond the Web Browser

The GraphicsView Framework

Qt's GraphicsView provides a higher level of graphical abstraction and reuse than QPainter alone. It can efficiently manage a large number of standard and custom graphic items, with support for zooming, transformations, and animation. The topics in this seminar include:

Structured drawing
The GraphicsView framework
Coordinates
Creating Items
Animation
Optimization
Example

Qt Designer

This is an introduction to the Qt Designer graphical layout tool. Attendees will learn to design GUIs and then integrate them with their back-end code. In addition to running Qt Designer, the session will instruct attendees on how to integrate their own custom widgets into Designer and make them available to other Designer users.

The topics to be covered include:

Widget layout
Signal and slot
Buddy
Tab order
Action editors
Object inspector

Motif to Qt Porting

Although it was the IEEE's only GUI API, a huge number of Motif enterprise applications are being upgraded to the more modern Qt application framework. Our experience has shown that a few tricks help reduce the workload immensely.

The topics to be covered include:

Tips and tricks
Converting UIL files to XML
Qt meta object system
Embedding Qt objects inside Motif container widgets
Merging event loops
Model - view - controller (MVC) paradigm

MFC to Qt Porting

This seminar provides an introduction to the QAxServer and QAxWidget classes for importing and exporting ActiveX controls to and from a Qt 4 application.

The topics to be covered include:

Creating interfaces to existing ActiveX controls
Mapping ActiveX events to Qt 4 signals and slots
Exporting objects and widgets from Qt 4 to Windows applications
Binding Qt 4 objects to COM interfaces and COM objects to Qt 4 interfaces

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