How to Learn Qt

Getting most of Qt documentation

Qt comes with extensive documentation, with hypertext cross-references throughout so you can easily click your way to whatever interests you. The part of the documentation that you'll probably use the most is the API Reference. Each link provides a different way of navigating the API Reference. Try them all to see which work best for you.

The All Overviews and HOWTOs page lists all Qt technology overviews and HOWTOs in one please. This includes the overviews mentioned above, but also lists several addtional references (e.g. starting pages of all Qt modules, most of which contain a short introduction to a given module).

You can find Qt documentation either directly integrated into Qt tools as well as here. The advantage of Qt documentation provided in tools is that it is stored on your machine and is available offline. The Qt documentation web site provides access to documentation from different Qt versions as well as the latest snapshot. Qt tools provide search functionality over the index of content as well as free text search. Advanced searches can also be conducted in Qt documentation through the use of search engines. Just limit the search to doc.qt.nokia.com and review help topics provided by the search engine you're using to know how to write more advanced search queries.

The most of the content in Qt documentation is in the documentation of Qt APIs. This includes a lot of code snippets showing how to implement a functionality with Qt APIs. A good example of this is the documentation on the QString class.

Make sure to take a look at the following reference documentation since they contain a lot of important details:

• Qt Namespace - contains a log of frequently used static variables
• Global Qt Declarations - to get an overview of available standard types, macros, and static functions