<![CDATA[Looking for a reference book on QT5]]>My boss just added writing a QT5 application in C++ to my development goals for this year. The application would involve several 'windows' with different 'widgets?' in each. Perhaps a table layout, a button pane, and perhaps a graph. It would do some basic file IO (reading and writing a file) but no networking, databases, or anything overly complicated.

For what its worth, I am a hardware centric, bare-metal, realtime, embedded software engineer! 35 years ago I did write a specialized CAD program (on a 80286!) and have dabbled with WxWidgets so some basic concepts are not completely foreign to me.

I am old school and seem to work better with a book in one hand and the keyboard/hollerith card puncher in the other. Any suggestions?

If I convinced him to do this in Python, what might that book be?

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]]>https://forum.qt.io/topic/112767/looking-for-a-reference-book-on-qt5RSS for NodeMon, 20 Apr 2026 13:51:02 GMTSat, 21 Mar 2020 10:41:04 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Looking for a reference book on QT5 on Sun, 22 Mar 2020 19:30:18 GMT]]>Hands-On Mobile and Embedded Development with Qt 5 http://bit.ly/HandsOnMobileEmbedded might be something to look at. :D

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/584021https://forum.qt.io/post/584021Sun, 22 Mar 2020 19:30:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking for a reference book on QT5 on Sat, 21 Mar 2020 20:57:23 GMT]]>Hi
Do you understand basic OOP ?
Qt heavily rely on subclassing and virtual functions override.
So while the language (python or c++) is not that important, i would
go with the language where you have the most experience using objects/classes with.

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/583914https://forum.qt.io/post/583914Sat, 21 Mar 2020 20:57:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking for a reference book on QT5 on Sat, 21 Mar 2020 11:28:51 GMT]]>@RobertCameron said in Looking for a reference book on QT5:

and the [...] hollerith card puncher in the other

+1 Brilliant :) Qt might even provide an interface...

When you "dabbled with WxWidgets" [my limited understanding is that there is a similarity, but Qt is considered nicer], did you do that in C++? Are you saying you would feel more comfortable with Python than C++?

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/583835https://forum.qt.io/post/583835Sat, 21 Mar 2020 11:28:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking for a reference book on QT5 on Sat, 21 Mar 2020 11:04:43 GMT]]>@RobertCameron

https://wiki.qt.io/Books contains a list of book - mostly C++ however.

For Python, mind that there is PyQt and the official Pyside2, which are differrent solutions with small differences.

Regards

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