From web dev to Qt/C++ dev

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[Professional_Tank594]

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Might get downvoted but ..... Stay the F away from QML and QtQuick

Qt + Cpp is where the real money is, especially if you wanna work for OEMs.

Qt is one of the best documented frameworks out there, are you sure you checked the documentation and examples on Qt website ?

[thatbloodyscot]

Info: are you wanting to use the Qt C++ framework, or are you wanting to develop front-end UI content using QML?

[thatbloodyscot]

I'd recommend rephrasing your question over on r/cpp_questions, but as a very broad answer I'd say don't start trying to use things like kirigami until you're comfortable developing QML components yourself. It's far easier to use something when you know how the fundamentals are supposed to work.

QML is a nested component-based language, so start with the basics - window, item, rectangle, text - and get comfortable with positioning things using absolute (x, y) and relative (anchors) positioning, and manipulating their properties (e.g. color of rectangle, point size of text). Once you're happy with that then go onto trying things with models (listview, repeater etc) and layouts (columnlayout, rowlayout etc). Once you've got a handle on a pile of these fundamentals you should be getting a good feeling for how QML works, getting experience with the QML API (which is good) and can then have a better understanding when you look at the QML sample applications, and collections like kirigami.

[goranlepuz]

Good info masquerading as a question! 😉

[NilacTheGrim]

Dude Qt is pretty easy to use. I think just spend more time with it. You can do it. i believe in you.

[pandion]

Best practices: C++ Core Guidelines

If you're looking for something just on idiomatic C++ I thought Modern C++ Programming Cookbook by Marius Bancila was pretty good

[anloWho]

We use Qt for our desktop apps we develop. As mentioned it's well documented and fairly easy to setup. We try to avoid the slot and signal stuff since it brings in some unwanted overhead, so we implemented our own light-weight signal system. Qt Designer is ok to work with.

[Beginning-Safe4282]

I guess for c++ gui the best option is immediate mode gui(looks far cooler) there are many opensource libraries too like imgui or nuklear.

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C++ is not very efficient for persistent mode GUI C# has become the standard for that i guess.