Qt4 tutorial

last modified October 18, 2023

This is Qt4 tutorial. In this tutorial, you will learn the basics of GUI programming with Qt4 and C++. The Qt4 tutorial is suitable of beginners and intermediate programmers. Qt5 tutorial is a successor of this tutorial. Note that the tutorial uses features of C++11.

Table of contents

• Introduction

• Utility classes

• Strings

• Date and time

• Files and directories

• First programs

• Menus and toolbars

• Layout management

• Events and signals

• Widgets

• Widgets II

• Painting

• Custom widget

• Breakout game

Qt

Qt is a cross-platform application development framework. Some of the well known applications developed with Qt are KDE, Opera, Google Earth, and Skype. Qt was first publicly released on May 1995. It is dual licensed. That means, it can be used for creating open source applications as well as commercial ones. Qt toolkit is a very powerful toolkit. It is well established in the open source community.

Author

My name is Jan Bodnar, and I am a passionate programmer with extensive programming experience. I have been writing programming articles since 2007. To date, I have authored over 1,400 articles and 8 e-books. I possess more than ten years of experience in teaching programming.