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The best way to learn TQt is to read the official TQt book, C++ GUI Programming with TQt 3 (ISBN 0-13-124072-2). \if defined(commercial) \footnote Some of the book's examples make use of modules that are only available in the TQt Enterprise Edition. \endfootnote \endif This book provides comprehensive coverage of TQt programming all the way from "Hello Qt" to advanced features like multithreading, 2D and 3D graphics, networking, and XML. \l{http://www.trolltech.com/training/}{Qt and Qtopia training} is also available. This takes the form of open enrollment courses for the public and on-site training for you and your colleagues. If you can't get hold of the official book, or if you can't wait for it to arrive then here is our suggested learning programme. Read the \link http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/whitepaper.html Qt Whitepaper\endlink first. This provides an overview of Qt's facilities and has snippets of code which demonstrate the TQt approach to programming. It gives you the 'big picture'. If you want to program purely in C++, designing your interfaces in code without the aid of any design tools, read the tutorials. \link tutorial.html Tutorial #1\endlink is designed to get you into Qt programming, with the emphasis on working code rather than being a tour of features. \link tutorial2.html Tutorial #2\endlink presents a more realistic example, demonstrating how to code menus, toolbars, file loading and saving, dialogs, etc. If you want to design your user interfaces using a design tool, then read at least the first few chapters of the \link designer-manual.book Qt Designer manual\endlink. After this, it is still worthwhile trying the pure C++ Tutorials (\link tutorial.html Tutorial #1\endlink and \link tutorial2.html Tutorial #2\endlink) mentioned above. By now you'll have produced some small working applications and have a broad feel for TQt programming. You could start work on your own projects straight away, but we recommend reading a couple of key overviews to deepen your understanding of Qt: the \link object.html TQt Object Model \endlink and \link signalsandslots.html Signals and Slots\endlink. At this point we recommend looking at the \link overviews-list.html overviews\endlink and reading those that are relevant to your projects. You may also find it useful to browse the source code of the \link examples.html examples\endlink that have things in common with your projects. You can also read Qt's source code since this is supplied. If you run the \c demo application (in \c{$TQTDIR/examples/demo}) you'll see many of Qt's widgets in action. 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 \link index.html API Reference\endlink. Each link provides a different way of navigating the API Reference; try them all to see which work best for you. You might also like to try \link assistant.book TQt Assistant\endlink: this tool is supplied with TQt and provides access to the entire TQt API, and it provides a full text search facility. There are also a growing number of \link http://www.trolltech.com/developer/books.html Qt books\endlink. You should now be ready to ground-break: good luck, and have fun! */