Qt Widgets and Style Sheets

One of the advantages of using Qt for software development is that it's very easy to design a program's graphical user interface (GUI ) using the tools provided by Qt. Throughout this book, we will try and create a single project that involves many different components and modules of Qt. We will go through each section of the project in each chapter, so that you will eventually be able to grasp the entire Qt Framework and at the same time complete demo projects, which is a really valuable item to add to your portfolio. You can find all the source code at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-GUI-Programming-with-C-QT5.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Introduction to Qt Designer
• Basic Qt widgets
• Qt Style Sheets

In this chapter, we will take a deep look into what Qt can offer us when it comes to designing sleek-looking GUIs with ease. At the beginning of this chapter, you will be introduced to the types of widgets provided by Qt and their functionalities. After that, we will walk through a series of steps and design our first form application using Qt.