Questions tagged [qt]
Qt is a cross-platform application development framework widely used for the development of GUI programs.
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Leveraging Qt models for nested data structures
Here is a simplified version of what I'm trying to achieve. For every Store that is added, one or more Departments can be added. For every Department that is added, one or more Employees can be added. ...
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Is it preferable to embed ".qm" translation files with Qt Resource System or bundling it with PyInstaller?
I'm learning PyInstaller for deploying Python applications, more specifically, applications developed with PyQt5. As far as I understand, it's possible to bundle application data (or "resources&...
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Accessing Hardware-based resources from multiple worker threads
I have a technical application that interacts with different hardware components: measurement devices, sensors, custom hardware. These use dedicated interfaces like USB, serial ports, TCP/IP ...
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User proof network app with distant database [duplicate]
I’m currently writing a software for my company (3rd world country), and I wanted it as simple as possible to install and maintain, so I started with Qt and no server app beside the database, (MariaDB ...
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Designing a library API to allow for interactivity
The application I'm currently working on is deeply coupled to the UI framework in use (Qt at the moment). I would like to separate the UI-specific code from the rest as much as possible, with the goal ...
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Best way to access (grand grand) parent element in gui
I'm creating a multi window gui program, in c++ with Qt Widgets. I do have many custom gui elements, which usually are c++ classes inherited from QWidget or other Qt elements. When foo is the main ...
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Design tips for waiting for a user input while working on another thread
I am working on an application with multiple threads (using Qt, C++). One of this threads is designed to execute a batch of operations like reading/writing from/to files as well as creating new ones. ...
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How to organize an App composed of Features in Qt?
When developing a somewhat larger application, with 3-4 screens or so, what is the most common way to organise the code? I've read that organize-by-feature trumps organize-by-type, so I was ...