// Copyright (C) 2016 The Qt Company Ltd. // SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-Qt-Commercial OR GFDL-1.3-no-invariants-only /*! \page overviews.html \title All Overviews \section1 Overviews \l {Introduction to Qt} \section1 Programming Languages You can develop Qt applications using one or a combination of the following languages: \l {Qt Languages} \list \li C++ \li QML \li Python \li JavaScript \endlist \section2 QML and C++ \generatelist explanations-programminglanguages \section1 Platforms Develop Qt applications on macOS, Linux, and Windows desktop platforms. Qt is platform-independent, which means you can compile same code base for other target platforms. \generatelist explanations-platforms \section1 Basics Learn the Qt basics that define the foundation of Qt. \generatelist explanations-basics \section1 UI Use the Qt Quick and Qt Widget UI technology. Qt Quick interfaces are fluid, dynamic, and are best on touch interfaces. Qt Widgets are for creating complex desktop applications. You can create Qt Quick and Qt Widgets interfaces with the target platform's native look and feel. \generatelist explanations-ui \section1 Graphics and Multimedia Display graphical elements and handle multimedia content. Qt abstracts the target platforms' underlying graphics APIs so that you can focus on writing the application code. Play back audio and video files and render them on screen, as well as record audio and video from the system's cameras and microphones. \generatelist explanations-graphicsandmultimedia \section1 Data processing and I/O Retrieve and store data in different formats. \generatelist explanations-dataprocessingandio \section1 Networking and Connectivity Develop applications that communicate with Web services and exchange data (JSON or CBOR) with applications on other devices. In addition, Qt applications can use remote objects or gRPC and protobuf to communicate with service endpoints. \generatelist explanations-networkingandconnectivity \section1 Web Technologies Embed content from the World Wide Web into your Qt applications on platforms that do not have a native web engine. Alternatively, you can create a web channel for peer-to-peer communication between a server and a client. \generatelist explanations-webtechnologies \section1 Tools Qt installations contain Qt libraries, examples, documentation, and the necessary development tools, such as the Qt Creator integrated development environment (IDE) and Qt Design Studio for developing Qt Quick Applications. \generatelist explanations-tools \section1 Accessibility Write accessible software by letting users scale the UI, change font size and color contrast, use the keyboard for navigation, have UI text read aloud with a synthesized voice, and change the UI language. \generatelist explanations-accessibility \section1 Positioning \generatelist explanations-positioning */ /*! \group qt-gui-concepts \title UI Design with Qt \brief The Qt components for constructing native look and feel desktop UI's. These pages are about Qt's traditional set of GUI components for building both native look and feel and custom UI's for the desktop environment. Use \l{Qt Quick} for building UI's for mobile devices. */ /*! \group qt-activex \title ActiveX in Qt \brief Qt API's for using ActiveX controls, servers, and COM. These pages document Qt's API's for developing with ActiveX controls, servers, and COM. */ /*! \group best-practices \title Best Practice Guides \brief How-To and Best Practice Guides These documents provide guidelines and best practices for using Qt to solve specific technical problems. They are listed alphabetically by the first word in the title, so scan the entire list to find what you want. */ /* XXX: enable when we have QML best practices \group qml-best-practices \title QML Best Practices Guides \brief QML Programming Best Practices Guides These documents provide guidelines and best practices for using QML and Qt to solve specific technical problems. */