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<h2>Configuring Qt and Creator Targets</h2>
<p>Qt and Creator are configurable to compile applications on many platform targets and multiple platforms.</p>
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<h3>Configuring Creator for Qt Development:</h3>
<p>Creator is the integrated development environment for developing Qt applications. Creator encompasses every step of application development from interface design to application testing and deployment.</p>
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<p>Alternatively, Qt may be installed on its own without the Nokia Qt SDK.</p>
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<h2>Qt Technologies</h2>
<p>Qt introduces an innovative alternative for inter-object communication, called "signals and slots", that replaces the old and unsafe callback technique used in many legacy frameworks. Qt also provides a conventional event model for handling mouse clicks, key presses, and other user input. Qt's cross-platform GUI applications can support all the user interface functionality required by modern applications, such as menus, context menus, drag and drop, and dockable toolbars. Desktop integration features provided by Qt can be used to extend applications into the surrounding desktop environment, taking advantage of some of the services provided on each platform.</p>
<p>The <a href="modules.html">Qt Modules</a> page has a listing of the technology modules offered by Qt.</p>
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<p>Qt offers a unique event system based on meta-objects, signals and slots, and property systems.</p>
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<p>Qt offers several options with regards to user interface creation: widget based applications using layouts and Qt Quick interfaces with QML.</p>
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<p>Web applications are increasing in importance and abundance and Qt has <a href="http://webkit.org/">WebKit</a> support.</p>
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<p>Qt supports many utilities that work on multiple platforms.</p>
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<h2>Testing Qt Applications</h2>
<p>Testing and debugging are part of the development process and Qt offers the developer multiple methods of testing their code.</p>
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<li><a href="debug.html">Debugging Techniques</a> - essential techniques for debugging Qt code</li>
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<li><a href="qmlviewer.html">QML Viewer</a> - an executable that is able to run QML files</li>
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<h2>Deployment</h2>
<p>Symbian phones, Maemo devices, desktop environments, embedded Linux devices -- Qt applications are deployable to many environments. To deploy Qt applications onto multiple platforms, there are special considerations that each platform introduce.</p>
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<p>Creator can publish applications to Ovi Store directly.</p>
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