Linux GUI Programming for Qt and KDE Course Outline

Linux GUI Programming for Qt and KDE

• SESSION 1:  First Steps in Linux GUI Programming
  • A History of Unix GUI Programming
  • Basics of the Qt Toolkit
  • Compiling Qt Programs

• SESSION 2:  The X Windowing System as a Foundation
  • Qt's Relationship to X
  • The Basic Design of X
  • Elements of X

• SESSION 3:  Signals and Slots
  • Signals and Slots Overview
  • Adding Slots to Classes
  • Connecting Signals to Slots

• SESSION 4: Layouts
  • Boxes
  • Tables

• SESSION 5: Fonts, Colors, and Palettes

• SESSION 6: Pixmaps

• SESSION 7: Timeouts

• SESSION 8: Creating Widgets
  • Drawing Widgets
  • Input from the User
  • Emitting Signals From Widgets
  • Double Buffering

• SESSION 9: Interfacing with KDE
  • Docking Applications
  • Internationalization
  • Integrating With KDE's Help Viewer

Linux GUI Programming for Qt and KDE