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An Introduction to Design Patterns in C++ with Qt 4

by: Ezust, Alan; Ezust, Paul

An Introduction to Design Patterns in C++ with Qt 4

by: Ezust, Alan; Ezust, Paul

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Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 08/31/2006
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Summary

Explore a fresh way of learning C++ using Trolltech's Qt 4, a modern cross-platform open-source framework.

Preface

xix

Acknowledgments

xxiii

Rationale for the Book

xxv

About the Authors

xxvii

PART 1 Introduction to C++ and Qt 4

(164)

1 C++ Introduction

(40)

1.1 Overview of C++

(1)

1.2 A Brief History of C++

(1)

1.3 Setup: Open-Source Platforms

(5)

1.3.1 *nix

(2)

1.3.2 Downloading from Source

(3)

1.4 Setup: Win32

(1)

1.5 C++ First Example

(4)

1.6 Input and Output

(3)

1.7 Identifiers, Types, and Literals

(3)

1.8 C++ Simple Types

(8)

1.8.1 main and Command Line Arguments

(1)

1.8.2 Arithmetic

(5)

1.9 C++ Standard Library Strings

(1)

1.10 Streams

(3)

1.11 The Keyword const

(2)

1.12 Pointers and Memory Access

(4)

1.12.1 The Unary Operators & and *

(2)

1.12.2 Operators new and delete

(2)

1.13 const* and *const

(3)

1.14 Reference Variables

(1)

Points of Departure

(1)

Review Questions

(34)

2 Classes

(32)

2.1 Structs

(1)

2.2 Class Definitions

(2)

2.3 Member Access Specifiers

(3)

2.4 Encapsulation

(1)

2.5 Introduction to UML

(1)

2.5.1 UML Relationships

(1)

2.6 Friends of a Class

(1)

2.7 Constructors

(2)

2.8 Subobjects

(2)

2.9 Destructors

(1)

2.10 The Keyword static

(3)

2.11 Copy Constructors and Assignment Operators

(3)

2.12 Conversions

(1)

2.13 const Member Functions

(11)

Review Questions

(14)

3 Introduction to Qt

(13)

3.1 Example Project: Using QApplication and QLabel

(1)

3.2 Makefile, qmake, and Project Files

(6)

3.2.1 #include: Finding Header Files

(1)

3.2.2 The make Command

(2)

3.2.3 Cleaning Up Files

(1)

3.3 Getting Help Online

(1)

3.4 Style Guidelines and Naming Conventions

(1)

3.5 The Qt Core Module

(1)

3.6 Streams and Dates

(2)

Points of Departure

(1)

Review Questions

(8)

4 Lists

(8)

4.1 Introduction to Containers

(1)

4.2 Iterators

(2)

4.2.1 QStringList and Iteration

(2)

4.3 Relationships

(3)

Points of Departure

102

(1)

Review Questions

103

(30)

5 Functions

105

(28)

5.1 Function Declarations

106

(1)

5.2 Overloading Functions

107

(2)

5.3 Optional Arguments

109

(2)

5.4 Operator Overloading

111

(5)

5.5 Parameter Passing by Value

116

(2)

5.6 Parameter Passing by Reference

118

(3)

5.7 References to const

121

(1)

5.8 Function Return Values

122

(1)

5.9 Returning References from Functions

122

(2)

5.10 Overloading on const-ness

124

(2)

5.11 Inline Functions

126

(1)

5.12 Inlining versus Macro Expansion

127

(6)

Review Questions

133

(31)

6 Inheritance and Polymorphism

135

(30)

6.1 Simple Derivation

136

(6)

6.1.1 Inheritance Client Code Example

141

(1)

6.2 Derivation with Polymorphism

142

(6)

6.3 Derivation from an Abstract Base Class

148

(4)

6.4 Inheritance Design

152

(2)

6.5 Overloading, Hiding, and Overriding

154

(1)

6.6 Constructors, Destructors, and Copy Assignment Operators

155

(3)

6.7 Processing Command-Line Arguments

158

(7)

6.7.1 Derivation and ArgumentList

159

(5)

Points of Departure

164

(1)

Review Questions

165

(1)

PART II Higher-Level Programming

166

(268)

7 Libraries

169

(11)

7.1 Code Containers

170

(1)

7.2 Reusing Other Libraries

171

(2)

7.3 Organizing Libraries: Dependency Management

173

(3)

7.3.1 Installing Libraries

176

(1)

7.4 Installing Libraries: A Lab Exercise

176

(2)

7.4.1 Fixing the Linker Path

177

(1)

7.5 Frameworks and Components

178

(2)

Review Questions

180

(10)

8 Introduction to Design Patterns

181

(9)

8.1 Iteration and the Visitor Pattern

182

(8)

8.1.1 Directories and Files: QDir and QFilelnfo

183

(1)

8.1.2 Visitor Pattern

184

(2)

8.1.3 Customizing the Visitor Using Inheritance

186

(4)

Review Questions

190

(21)

9 QObject

191

(20)

9.1 QObject's Child Managment

194

(2)

9.2 Composite Pattern: Parents and Children

196

(4)

9.2.1 Finding Children

199

(1)

9.3 QApplication and the Event Loop

200

(9)

9.3.1 Layouts: A First Look

202

(1)

9.3.2 Connecting to Slots

203

(1)

9.3.3 Signals and Slots

204

(5)

9.4 Q_OBJECT and moc: A Checklist

209

(1)

9.5 Values and Objects

210

(1)

9.6 tr() and Internationalization

211

(1)

Point of Departure

211

(1)

Review Questions

212

(1)

10 Generics and Containers

213

(22)

10.1 Generics and Templates

214

(5)

10.1.1 Function Templates

214

(2)

10.1.2 Class Templates

216

(3)

10.2 Containers

219

(2)

10.3 Managed Containers, Composites, and Aggregates

221

(3)

10.4 Implicitly Shared Classes

224

(1)

10.5 Generics, Algorithms, and Operators

225

(2)

10.6 Serializer Pattern

227

(2)

10.6.1 Benefits of the Serializer

229

(1)

10.7 Sorted Map Example

229

(6)

Review Questions

235

(2)

11 Qt GUI Widgets

237

(37)

11.1 Widget Categories

239

(1)

11.2 QMainWindow and QSettings

240

(4)

11.2.1 QSettings: Saving and Restoring Application State

242

(2)

11.3 Dialogs

244

(4)

11.3.1 Input Dialogs and Widgets

246

(2)

11.4 Images and Resources

248

(3)

11.5 Layout of Widgets

251

(9)

11.5.1 Spacing, Stretching, and Struts

254

(2)

11.5.2 Moving Widgets across Layouts

256

(4)

11.6 QActions, QMenus, and QMenuBars

260

(2)

11.7 QActions, QToolbars, and QActionGroups

262

(8)

11.7.1 The Command Pattern

262

(8)

11.8 Regions and QDockWidgets

270

(2)

11.9 Views of a QStringList

272

(2)

Points of Departure

274

(1)

Review Questions

275

(2)

12 Concurrency

277

(28)

12.1 QProcess and Process Control

278

(12)

12.1.1 Processes and Environment

280

(4)

12.1.2 Qonsole: Writing an Xterm in Qt

284

(2)

12.1.3 Qonsole with Keyboard Events

286

(4)

12.2 Threads and QThread

290

(13)

12.2.1 QPixmap and QThread Animation Example: Movie Player

290

(4)

12.2.2 Movie Player with QTimer

294

(2)

12.2.3 Multiple Threads, Queues, and Loggers Example: Giant

296

(6)

12.2.4 Thread Safety and QObjects

302

(1)

12.3 Summary: QProcess and QThread

303

(2)

Review Questions

305

(2)

13 Validation and Regular Expressions

307

(12)

13.1 Validators

308

(2)

13.2 Regular Expressions

310

(6)

13.2.1 Regular Expression Syntax

311

(2)

13.2.2 Regular Expressions: Phone Number Recognition

313

(3)

13.3 Regular Expression Validation

316

(3)

Review Questions

319

(2)

14 Parsing XML

321

(19)

14.1 The Qt XML Module

325

(1)

14.2 Event-Driven Parsing

325

(4)

14.3 XML, Tree Structures, and DOM

329

(12)

14.3.1 Visitor Pattern: DOM Tree Walking

331

(4)

14.3.2 Generation of XML with DOM

335

(5)

Review Questions

340

(1)

15 Meta Objects, Properties, and Reflective Programming

341

(16)

15.1 Anti-patterns

342

(2)

15.2 QMetaObject: The MetaObject Pattern

344

(1)

15.3 Type Identification and qobject_cast

345

(2)

15.4 Q_PROPERTY Macro: Describing QObject Properties

347

(3)

15.5 QVariant Class: Accessing Properties

350

(3)

15.6 DataObject: An Extension of QObject

353

(2)

15.7 Property Containers: PropsMap

355

(2)

Review Questions

357

(2)

16 More Design Patterns

359

(30)

16.1 Creational Patterns

360

(13)

16.1.1 Abstract Factory

361

(2)

16.1.2 Abstract Factories and Libraries

363

(2)

16.1.3 qApp and Singleton Pattern

365

(1)

16.1.4 Creation Rules and friend Functions (What Friends Are Really For)

366

(3)

16.1.5 Benefits of Using Factories

369

(4)

16.2 Serializer Pattern Revisited

373

(8)

16.2.1 Exporting to XML

375

(1)

16.2.2 Importing Objects with an Abstract Factory

376

(5)

16.3 The Facade Pattern

381

(10)

16.3.1 Functional Facade

384

(1)

16.3.2 Smart Pointers: auto ptr

384

(1)

16.3.3 FileTagger: Façade Example

385

(4)

Points of Departure

389

(1)

Review Questions

390

(1)

17 Models and Views

391

(30)

17.1 M-V-C: What about the Controller?

392

(1)

17.2 Dynamic Form Models

393

(16)

17.2.1 Form Models

397

(3)

17.2.2 Form Views

400

(3)

17.2.3 Unforseen Types

403

(1)

17.2.4 Controlling Actions

404

(1)

17.2.5 DataObject Form Model

405

(4)

17.3 Qt 4 Models and Views

409

(2)

17.4 Table Models

411

(6)

17.5 Tree Models

417

(6)

17.5.1 Extended Tree Widget Items

418

(3)

Review Questions

421

(2)

18 Qt SQL Classes

423

(10)

18.1 Introduction to MySQL

424

(3)

18.2 Queries and Result Sets

427

(2)

18.3 Database Models

429

(4)

Review Questions

433

(1)

PART III C++ Language Reference

434

(114)

19 Types and Expressions

437

(24)

19.1 Operators

438

(5)

19.2 Evaluation of Logical Expressions

443

(1)

19.3 Enumerations

443

(2)

19.4 Signed and Unsigned Integral Types

445

(2)

19.5 Standard Expression Conversions

447

(2)

19.6 Explicit Conversions

449

(1)

19.7 Safer Typecasting Using ANSI C++ Typecasts

450

(4)

19.7.1 static cast and const cast

450

(3)

19.7.2 reinterpret cast

453

(1)

19.7.3 Why Not Use C-style Casts?

454

(1)

19.8 Run-Time Type Identification (RTTI)

454

(4)

19.8.1 typeid Operator

456

(2)

19.9 Member Selection Operators 457 Point of Departure

458

(3)

Review Questions

461

(2)

20 Scope and Storage Class

463

(15)

20.1 Declarations and Definitions

464

(1)

20.2 Identifier Scope

465

(5)

20.2.1 Default Scope of Identifiers: A Summary

466

(2)

20.2.2 File Scope versus Block Scope and operator::

468

(2)

20.3 Storage Class

470

(3)

20.3.1 Globals, statics, and QObject

471

(2)

20.4 Namespaces

473

(6)

20.4.1 Anonymous Namespaces

476

(1)

20.4.2 Open Namespaces

476

(1)

20.4.3 Namespace, static Objects and extern

476

(2)

Review Questions

478

(1)

21 Statements and Control Structures

479

(23)

21.1 Statements

480

(1)

21.2 Selection Statements

480

(3)

21.3 Iteration

483

(2)

21.4 Exceptions

485

(18)

21.4.1 Exception Handling

486

(1)

21.4.2 Exception Types

486

(1)

21.4.3 throwing Things Around

487

(3)

21.4.4 try and catch

490

(4)

21.4.5 More about throw

494

(2)

21.4.6 Rethrown Exceptions

496

(1)

21.4.7 Exception Expressions

497

(5)

Review Questions

502

(1)

22 Memory Access

503

(18)

22.1 Pointer Pathology

504

(2)

22.2 Further Pointer Pathology with Heap Memory

506

(3)

22.3 Memory Access Summary

509

(1)

22.4 Introduction to Arrays

509

(1)

22.5 Pointer Arithmetic

510

(1)

22.6 Arrays, Functions, and Return Values

511

(2)

22.7 Different Kinds of Arrays

513

(1)

22.8 Valid Pointer Operations

513

(2)

22.9 What Happens If new Fails?

515

(4)

22.9.1 set_new_handler(): Another Approach to New Failures

516

(1)

22.9.2 Using set_new_handler and bad_alloc

517

(1)

22.9.3 Checking for null: The Updated Way to Test for New Failures

518

(1)

22.10 Chapter Summary

519

(2)

Review Questions

521

(2)

23 Inheritance in Detail

523

(9)

23.1 Virtual Pointers and Virtual Tables

524

(2)

23.2 Polymorphism and virtual Destructors

526

(2)

23.3 Multiple Inheritance

528

(4)

23.3.1 Multiple Inheritance Syntax

529

(2)

23.3.2 Multiple Inheritance with Abstract Interfaces

531

(1)

Point of Departure

532

(7)

23.3.3 Resolving Multiple Inheritance Conflicts

532

(4)

23.4 public, protected, and private Derivation

536

(3)

Review Questions

539

(2)

24 Miscellaneous Topics

541

(7)

24.1 Functions with Variable-Length Argument Lists

542

(1)

24.2 Resource Sharing

543

(5)

PART IV Programming Assignments

548

(24)

25 MP3 Jukebox Assignments

551

(20)

25.1 Data Model: Mp3File

553

(2)

25.2 Visitor: Generating Playlists

555

(1)

25.3 Preference: An Enumerated Type

556

(3)

25.4 Reusing id3lib

559

(1)

25.5 PlayListModel Serialization

560

(1)

25.6 Testing Mp3File Related Classes

561

(1)

25.7 Simple Queries and Filters

561

(2)

25.8 Mp3PlayerView

563

(2)

25.9 Models and Views: PlayList

565

(1)

25.10 Source Selector

566

(1)

25.11 Persistent Settings

567

(1)

25.12 Edit Form View for FileTagger

568

(1)

25.13 Database View

569

(2)

Points of Departure

571

(1)

PART V Appendices

572

(29)

Appendix A: C++ Reserved Keywords

575

(2)

Appendix B: Standard Headers

577

(2)

Appendix C: The Development Environment

579

(22)

C.1 The Preprocessor: For #including Files

579

(3)

C.2 Understanding the Linker

582

(5)

C.2.1 Common Linker Error Messages

584

(3)

C.3 Debugging

587

(6)

C.3.1 Building a Debuggable Target

588

(1)

C.3.2 gdb Quickstart

589

(1)

C.3.3 Finding Memory Errors

590

(3)

C.4 Qt Assistant and Designer

593

(1)

C.5 Open-Source IDEs and Development Tools

594

(7)

C.5.1 UML Modeling Tools

597

(1)

C.5.2 jEdit

598

(3)

Bibliography

601

(2)

Index

603

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