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Qt tutorial, getting started


Qt is a GUI software toolkit. Qt simplifies the task of writing and maintaining GUI (graphical user interface) applications. Qt is written in C++ and is fully object-oriented. It has everything you need to create professional GUI applications. And it enables you to create them quickly. Qt is a multi-platform toolkit. When developing software with Qt, you can run it on the X Window System (Unix/X11) or Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/XP and MacOS X. Simply recompile your source code on the platform you want to deploy.


In this tutorial we focus how we can install Qt on windows computer and aslo we learn how to install it for application development for Symbian OS.

The best way to learn Qt on windows OS or Linux OS. The reason we can compile and run those application directly. If we want to try it for example Symbian, it is a bit slower than PC. The reason is obvious, you have to use emulator for development. Once we learn how to develop Qt application in PC we port it for Symbian OS.
Go to page
http://qt.nokia.com/downloads
Download Qt SDK for Windows* (322 MB) (for Windows development, good for learning Qt/QML)
For mobile application development on Symbian and MeeGo platform use these QtSDK
http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/sdk-windows-cpp
Follow the tutorial from this pages
http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7.old/tutorials.html