Qtopia for Application Developers (5 days)

Qt 4 for those who know Qt 3 already. Learn what is new with Qt 4, what to look for when porting your application from Qt 3 to Qt 4, and about the tools available to make this transition as smooth as possible. This course will be adjusted to match what is needed for each customer's application. During the 1-3 extra days we will start porting your application and get you on the right track.

General Need-to-Know About Qt
Qtopia builds on the Qt API to deliver a complete application framework. The following Qt topics are useful no matter what you are developing.

Short Overview of Trolltech Products and How They All Fit Together
GUI Toolkits and Cross-Platform Libraries
Getting Started with Qt ("Hello World")
Parent/Child Relationship
Linking User Interaction to Application Functionality (signal/slots)
A Whirlwind Tour Though Qt Functionality (A Brief Run Through of the Different Qt Libraries, Various Widgets, Model/View Classes, Dialogs, User Help, Geometry Management, I/O and Networking, Graphics and Printing, Multithreading and Multimedia)
Developing a Paint Program (Basic Drawing, Main Window and Actions, Files, Printing, Scrolled Areas)
Predefined Dialogs
Custom Dialogs
Geometry Management
Qt Designer
Customized Drawings (Colors, Transparency, Clipping, Coordinate System Transformation)
Text Processing
The Qt Event System (Internal Details, Synthetic Events, Delayed Invocation, Event Filters)
Container Classes
Debugging
Writing Your Own Widgets
The Qt Resource System

Qtopia Specifics

Interprocess Communication
Cross-Compiling
Pointer Handling
Qtopia Phone Library
3rd-Party Extensions
Qtopia Files (Required System Files, Your Source, Configuring Features)
Customizing Look and Feel (Custom Launcher, Theming, Fonts)
Plugins

Pick and Choose
The following optional topics can be included into your On-Site Course. If you choose extra topics you should also indicate to us which topics from the core contents can be omitted or treated in less detail.

QCanvas
QScrollView
QListView
QIconView
QTable
Network Programming
qmake — Automating Makefile Creation
Internationalization
XML in Qt
Mulitithreading
Qt 3.x to Qt 2.3 Backport
Development Tools for Linux (KDevelop, ...)

We update the course contents after each course, based on student feedback and customers' wishes. Please let us know if you are interested in special topics not mentioned here.

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