Tutorials

Complete projects, built step by step. Where the user guide explains one topic per chapter, a tutorial carries a single program from an empty main to something you would ship.

• :material-numeric-1-box: Quick start, in six steps

  The quick_start_00 through quick_start_05 examples, explained. An empty desktop grows a status line, a menu bar, real commands and finally global keyboard shortcuts. About twenty minutes.

• :material-chart-line: The biorhythm calculator

  A full application: a data-entry dialog with a validated date field, a custom view that draws sine curves in text, window management and a status line. The longest worked example in the documentation.

Suggested order

1. Read getting started and get an empty desktop running.
2. Work through the quick start to see the application shell assemble.
3. Build the biorhythm calculator for dialogs, validation and custom drawing.
4. Read chapter 8 when you want to write a view of your own.