Pragmatic Bookshelf Rapid GUI Development with QtRuby July 2007 eBook BOOKLEET

See how to use the powerful Qt3 library to create cross-platform GUI applications for Linux and OS X in Ruby. Covers installation, basic and advanced programming, event models, and Korundum.

Contents

Introduction

About Qt. History, versions, installing, testing your installation.

About QtRuby. Language bindings, SMOKE, installing.

Get Your Feet Wet. Writing your first program, widgets and the object model, initialization, Qt::Application.

Take the Plunge. Custom Widgets, geometry and layouts, signals and slots, slot senders. Read an extract

Sink or Swim. Events methods and filters, the Main event, the event loop, posting and sending.

The Home Stretch. Qt modules, QtRuby tools, tighter Ruby integration, disposing of widgets, debugging QtRuby applications.

Korundum. Installing, DCOP, interprocess communication.

Appendices. Event Method Map, Resources.

(90 total pages)