New Book Covering Mono and Nokia Qt As Well As Reporting With Qt

Online, February 16, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Logikal Solutions is proud to announce "The Minimum You Need to Know About Mono and Qt" has been released in EPUB format as part of "The Minimum You Need to Know" book series. Currently it is available at Barnes & Nobel as well as Sony. It should also be available shortly at Kobo.

Barnes & Nobel

Sony

Qt is an amazing application framework currently owned and supported by Nokia. It has become the defacto standard in hand held/smart phone "app" development and is quickly becoming the industry standard in cross platform application development. Not only has the Qt framework been ported to many platforms, it has been made available to many languages beyond its native C++.

One of those languages is Mono, the Open Source version of C# and the .Net framework. This book fills a much needed niche for Mono developers attempting to use awe inspiring Qt framework. It not only shows you the "how" of using the language, but covers various development tools and their limitations.

After the reader learns how to utilize the power of this framework to develop an application with Qt and Mono, a very detailed chapter which will apply to all Qt users follows: Reports and Printing.

One area of Qt development which is sadly documented on all platforms is the creation, display, and printing of reports. While smart phone "app" users probably do not care about financial reports with columns that actually line up or getting a printed receipt for tax purposes, the rest of the business world does. One thing slowing Qt's adoption as a general business development platform is the dearth of quality examples showing the various report file formats currently supported by Qt along with how to display and print them.

While printing may sound trivial, display rendering and print rendering are two completely different engines requiring different techniques to attain both columnar alignment and consistent page breaking.