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About this Guide
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Why Would You Want to Read this Guide?
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The goal of this guide is to inform you about the best programming practices using the Canvas type in Qt Quick 2.0.
A prerequisite to this guide is to have a solid understanding of the QML language, so I recommend reading the Qt Quick Application Development Primer first to understand how to use Qt Quick for application development. Throughout this guide, we’ll walk you through various aspects and examples of Qt Quick 2.0 Painting API with Canvas. References to other information sources are provided to make it easy for you to deepen your understanding of the used API.

.. _get-desktop-source-code:

Get the Source Code and the Guide in Different Formats
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A .zip file that contains the example source code referred in each chapter:

     `Source code <http://releases.qt-project.org/learning/developerguides/canvastutorial/canvasexample_src.zip>`_

The guide is available in the following offline formats:

    * `PDF <http://releases.qt-project.org/learning/developerguides/canvastutorial/QtQuickCanvasTutorial.pdf>`_

    * `ePub <http://releases.qt-project.org/learning/developerguides/canvastutorial/QtQuickCanvasTutorial.epub>`_ for ebook readers.

    * `Qt Help <http://releases.qt-project.org/learning/developerguides/canvastutorial/QtQuickCanvasTutorial.qch>`_ for Qt Assistant and Qt Creator.


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Copyright (C) 2012 Digia Plc and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
All rights reserved.

This work, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5.

The full license document is available from http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/legalcode .

Qt and the Qt logo is a registered trade mark of Digia plc and/or its subsidiaries and is used pursuant to a license from Digia plc and/or its subsidiaries. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

.. rubric:: What's Next?

Next we will go through a brief instruction of the Painting APIs in Qt Quick 2.0 and a basic example.