Support for Mac OS X
Qt on Mac OS X
Qt is a comprehensive application and UI framework for developing Mac applications that can also be deployed across many other desktop and embedded operating systems without rewriting the source code. Use the code from one single code-base and rebuild for all supported Windows versions and other platforms.
Getting Started on Mac
- Getting Started with Qt
- Qt for Mac OS X Requirements - Software required to run Qt on Mac OS X.
- Installing Qt for Mac OS X - Build Qt for Mac OS X development.
- Developing Qt Applications for Mac OS X - Details about the developer evironment on Mac OS X
- Platform and Compiler Notes - Mac OS X - Platform specific notes.
- Developing Qt Applications for Mac OS X
- Specific Issues
Key Features for Mac OS X Development
Integrated Development Tools
Qt includes a set of integrated development tools to speed development on the Mac platform.
- Qt Designer provides a drag and drop visual GUI builder.
- Qt Linguist provides internationalization and translation features.
- Qt Assistant is a customizable HTML help file reader providing the complete Qt documentation offline.
Cross-Platform Development using Qt Creator
Qt Creator is a complete Cross-platform IDE included in the Qt SDK. The IDE allows programmers to create, build, debug and run Qt applications accross all supported platforms.
Rich Class Library
The Qt class library includes all the functionality needed to build advanced GUI applications.
- Qt Quick and QML, a powerful declarative UI language for making fluid, animated, hardware-accelerated UIs.
- Complete set of customizable UI controls/widgets
- 3D graphics support with OpenGL integration
- Powerful multi-threading features
- 2D graphics canvas capable of handling millions of items
- Support for Audio and Video through the Qt Multimedia module
- WebKit integration
- Networking, XML and data storage functionality
- ECMA standard scripting engine
- Native support