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/*!
    \page qtmodules.html
    \title All Modules
    \brief A list of all modules in Qt 5.
    \ingroup classlists
    \brief Qt 5 consists of essential modules, add-on modules, and tools.
    \section1 Qt Essentials
    Qt essentials define the foundation of Qt on all platforms. They are
    available on all supported development platforms and on the tested target
    platforms. They will remain source and binary compatible during Qt 5.
    Essential modules are general and useful for a majority of Qt applications.
    A module that is used for a special purpose is considered an add-on module
    even if it is available on all supported platforms.
    The following table lists the Qt essentials:
    \table 80%
    \header
        \li Module
        \li Description
    \row
        \li \l[QtCore]{Qt Core}
        \li Core non-graphical classes used by other modules.
    \row
        \li \l[QtGui]{Qt GUI}
        \li Base classes for graphical user interface (GUI) components.
            Includes OpenGL.
    \row
        \li \l[QtMultimedia]{Qt Multimedia}
        \li Classes for audio, video, radio and camera functionality.
    \row
        \li \l[QtMultimediaWidgets]{Qt Multimedia Widgets}
        \li Widget-based classes for implementing multimedia functionality.
    \row
        \li \l[QtNetwork]{Qt Network}
        \li Classes to make network programming easier and more portable.
    \row
        \li \l[QtQml]{Qt QML}
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\li Classes for QML and JavaScript languages. \row \li \l[QtQuick]{Qt Quick} \li A declarative framework for building highly dynamic applications with custom user interfaces. \row \li \l{Qt Quick Controls 2} \li Provides lightweight QML types for creating performant user interfaces for desktop, embedded, and mobile devices. These types employ a simple styling architecture and are very efficient. \row \li \l[QtQuickDialogs]{Qt Quick Dialogs} \li Types for creating and interacting with system dialogs from a Qt Quick application. \row \li \l[QtQuickLayouts]{Qt Quick Layouts} \li Layouts are items that are used to arrange Qt Quick 2 based items in the user interface. \row \li \l[QtQuickTest]{Qt Quick Test} \li A unit test framework for QML applications, where the test cases are written as JavaScript functions. \row \li \l[QtSql]{Qt SQL} \li Classes for database integration using SQL. \row \li \l[QtTestLib]{Qt Test} \li Classes for unit testing Qt applications and libraries. \row \li \l[QtWidgets]{Qt Widgets} \li Classes to extend Qt GUI with C++ widgets. \endtable If you use \l qmake to build your projects, the \l{Qt Core} and \l{Qt GUI} modules are included by default. To link only against Qt Core, add the following line to your \c .pro file: \code QT -= gui \endcode On Windows, if you do not use \l qmake or other build tools such as \l{CMake Manual}{CMake}, you also need to link against the \c qtmain library. \section1 Qt Add-Ons \e{Qt Add-On} modules bring additional value for specific purposes. These modules may only be available on some development platform. Many add-on modules are either feature-complete and exist for backwards compatibility, or are only applicable to certain platforms. Each add-on module specifies its compatibility promise separately. The Qt installers include the option of downloading the add-ons. For more information, visit the \l{Getting Started with Qt} page. The following table lists the Qt add-ons: \table 80% \header \li Module \li Development Platforms \li Target Platforms \li Description \row \li \l[ActiveQt]{Active Qt} \li \l{Qt for Windows}{Windows} \li \li Classes for applications which use ActiveX and COM \row \li \l[Qt3D]{Qt 3D}
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\li All \li \li Functionality for near-realtime simulation systems with support for 2D and 3D rendering. \row \li \l{Enginio Manual}{Enginio} (Deprecated) \li All \li All \li A Backend-as-a-Service solution to ease the backend development for connected and data-driven applications. \row \li \l[QtAndroidExtras]{Qt Android Extras} \li All \li \l{Qt for Android}{Android} \li Provides platform-specific APIs for Android. \row \li \l[QtBluetooth]{Qt Bluetooth} \li All \li \l{Qt for Android}{Android}, \l{Qt for iOS}{iOS}, \l{Qt for Linux/X11}{Linux} and \l{Qt for macOS}{\macos} \li Provides access to Bluetooth hardware. \row \li \l[QtCanvas3D]{Qt Canvas 3D} \li All \li \li Enables OpenGL-like 3D drawing calls from Qt Quick applications using JavaScript. \row \li \l[QtConcurrent]{Qt Concurrent} \li \li \li Classes for writing multi-threaded programs without using low-level threading primitives. \row \li \l[QtDBus]{Qt D-Bus} \li All \li \li Classes for inter-process communication over the D-Bus protocol. \row \li \l[QtGamepad]{Qt Gamepad} \li All \li \l{Qt for Android}{Android}, \l{Qt for iOS}{iOS}, \l{Qt for macOS}{\macos}, tvOS (including the tvOS remote), \l{Qt for Linux/X11}{Linux}, \l{Qt for Windows}{Windows} \li Enables Qt applications to support the use of gamepad hardware. \row \li \l[QtGraphicalEffects]{Qt Graphical Effects} \li All \li \li Graphical effects for use with Qt Quick 2. \row \li \l{Qt Help} \li All \li All \li Classes for integrating documentation into applications, similar to Qt Assistant. \row \li \l[QtImageFormats]{Qt Image Formats} \li All \li \li Plugins for additional image formats: TIFF, MNG, TGA, WBMP. \row \li \l[QtLocation]{Qt Location} \li All \li All \li Displays map, navigation, and place content in a QML application. \row \li \l[QtMacExtras]{Qt Mac Extras} \li All \li \l{Qt for macOS}{\macos} \li Provides platform-specific APIs for \macos.
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\row \li \l[QtNetworkAuth]{Qt Network Authorization} \li All \li All \li Provides support for OAuth-based authorization to online services. \row \li \l[QtNfc]{Qt NFC} \li All \li \l{Qt for Android}{Android} and \l{Qt for Linux/X11}{Linux} \li Provides access to Near-Field communication (NFC) hardware. \row \li \l[QtOpenGL]{Qt OpenGL} (Deprecated) \li \li \li OpenGL support classes. Deprecated in favor of the \c{QOpenGL*} classes in the \l{Qt GUI} module. \row \li \l[QtPlatformHeaders]{Qt Platform Headers} \li \li \li Provides classes that encapsulate platform-specific information, tied to a given runtime configuration of a \l {Qt Platform Abstraction} {platform plugin}. \row \li \l[QtPositioning]{Qt Positioning} \li All \li \l{Qt for Android}{Android}, \l{Qt for iOS}{iOS}, \l{Qt for macOS}{\macos}, \l{Qt for Linux/X11}{Linux}, \l{Qt for WinRT}{WinRT}. \li Provides access to position, satellite and area monitoring classes. \row \li \l[QtPrintSupport]{Qt Print Support} \li All \li \li Classes to make printing easier and more portable. \row \li \l{Qt Purchasing} \li All \li \l{Qt for Android}{Android}, \l{Qt for iOS}{iOS}, and \l{Qt for macOS}{\macos}. \li Enables in-app purchase of products in Qt applications. \row \li \l[QtQuickControls]{Qt Quick Controls} \li All \li All \li Reusable Qt Quick based UI controls to create classic desktop-style user interfaces. \row \li \l[QtQuickExtras]{Qt Quick Extras} \li All \li \li Provides a specialized set of controls that can be used to build interfaces in Qt Quick. \row \li \l{Qt Quick Widgets C++ Classes}{Qt Quick Widgets} \li All \li \li Provides a C++ widget class for displaying a Qt Quick user interface. \row \li \l[QtScript]{Qt Script} (Deprecated) \li All \li \li Classes for making Qt applications scriptable. Deprecated in favor of the \c{QJS*} classes in the \l{Qt QML} module. \row \li \l[QtScxml]{Qt SCXML} \li All \li All \li Provides classes and tools for creating state machines from SCXML files and embedding them in applications. \row \li \l[QtScriptTools]{Qt Script Tools} (Deprecated)
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\li All \li \li Additional components for applications that use \l{Qt Script}. \row \li \l[QtSensors]{Qt Sensors} \li All \li \l{Qt for Android}{Android}, \l{Qt for iOS}, \l{Qt for WinRT}{WinRT} and Mer. \li Provides access to sensor hardware and motion gesture recognition. \row \li \l[QtSerialBus]{Qt Serial Bus} \li All \li \l{Qt for Windows}{Windows}, \l{Qt for Linux/X11}{Linux} and \l{Boot2Qt}{Boot to Qt} targets. \li Provides access to serial industrial bus interface. Currently the module supports the CAN bus and Modbus protocols. \row \li \l[QtSerialPort]{Qt Serial Port} \li All \li \l{Qt for Windows}{Windows}, \l{Qt for Linux/X11}{Linux}, and \l{Qt for macOS}{\macos}. \li Provides access to hardware and virtual serial ports. \row \li \l[QtSpeech]{Qt Speech} \li All \li \li Provides support for accessibility features such as text-to-speech. \row \li \l[QtSvg]{Qt SVG} \li All \li \li Classes for displaying the contents of SVG files. Supports a subset of the \l{http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGTiny12/}{SVG 1.2 Tiny} standard. \row \li \l[QtUITools]{Qt UI Tools} \li All \li All \li Classes for loading QWidget based forms created in \QD dynamically, at runtime. \row \li \l[QtWebChannel]{Qt WebChannel} \li All \li All \li Provides access to QObject or QML objects from HTML clients for seamless integration of Qt applications with HTML/JavaScript clients. \row \li \l[QtWebEngine]{Qt WebEngine} \li All \li \l{Qt for Windows}{Windows}, \l{Qt for Linux/X11}{Linux}, and \l{Qt for macOS}{\macos}. \li Classes and functions for embedding web content in applications using the \l{http://www.chromium.org/Home}{Chromium browser project}. \row \li \l[QtWebSockets]{Qt WebSockets} \li All \li All \li Provides WebSocket communication compliant with \l{http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455} {RFC 6455}. \row \li \l[QtWebView]{Qt WebView} \li All \li Platforms with a native web engine. \li Displays web content in a QML application by using APIs native to the platform, without the need to include a full web browser stack. \row \li \l[QtWinExtras]{Qt Windows Extras} \li All \li \l{Qt for Windows}{Windows} \li Provides platform-specific APIs for Windows. \row \li \l[QtX11Extras]{Qt X11 Extras} \li All \li \l{Qt for Linux/X11}{Linux/X11} \li Provides platform-specific APIs for X11. \row \li \l[QtXml]{Qt XML} \li
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\li \li C++ implementations of SAX and DOM. \note This module is not required to use QXmlStreamReader and QXmlStreamWriter. They are already part of \l{Qt Core}. \row \li \l[QtXmlPatterns]{Qt XML Patterns} \li \li \li Support for XPath, XQuery, XSLT and XML schema validation. \row \li \l{Qt Wayland Compositor} \li \l{Qt for Linux/X11}{Linux} \li \l{Qt for Linux/X11}{Linux} and \l{Boot2Qt}{Boot to Qt} targets. \li Provides a framework to develop a Wayland compositor. \row \header \li {4,1} \target gpl-licensed-addons Add-ons available under Commercial Licenses, or GNU General Public License v3 \row \li \l{Qt Charts} \li All \li \li UI Components for displaying visually pleasing charts, driven by static or dynamic data models. \row \li \l{Qt Data Visualization} \li All \li All \li UI Components for creating stunning 3D data visualizations. \row \li \l{Qt Virtual Keyboard} \li All \li \l{Qt for Linux/X11}{Linux} and \l{Qt for Windows}{Windows} desktop, and \l{Boot2Qt}{Boot to Qt} targets. \li A framework for implementing different input methods as well as a QML virtual keyboard. Supports localized keyboard layouts and custom visual themes. \endtable \section1 Value-Add Modules In addition to the modules released as part of Qt 5, the following modules and tooling build on top of the Qt libraries to provide additional value. They have their own release schedule, and are available under the commercial license. \table 80% \header \li Feature \li Description \row \li \l{Qt Automotive Suite} \li A collection of software components and tools to enable development of In-Vehicle-Infotainment (IVI) systems. Built on top of the Qt for Device Creation offering and compliant with the GENIVI automotive platform architecture. \row \li \l{Qt for Automation} \li Libraries and tools for automation related domains, such as KNX, OPC UA, and MQTT. \row \li \l{Qt for Device Creation} \li Tools for fast, easy, and fully-integrated embedded device application development. Included in most other Value-Add solutions. \row \li \l{Qt Quick Enterprise Controls} \li A specialized set of controls that can be used to build interfaces in Qt Quick. \endtable \section1 Technology Preview Modules
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The following modules are still in development but are available as technology previews. \table 80% \header \li Module \li Description \row \li \l{Qt Remote Objects} \li Provides an easy to use mechanism for sharing a QObject's API (Properties/Signals/Slots) between processes or devices. \endtable \section1 Qt Tools \e{Qt Tools} run on all the supported development platforms and facilitate the development and design of applications. The following table lists the Qt tools: \table 80% \header \li Tool \li Description \row \li \l{Qt Designer} \li Classes for extending \QD. \endtable \section1 Where to Go from Here We invite you to explore the rest of Qt. We prepared overviews which help you decide which APIs to use and our examples demonstrate how to use our API. \list \li \l{Qt Overviews} - list of topics about application development \li \l{Qt Examples and Tutorials}{Examples and Tutorials} - code samples and tutorials \li \l{Qt Reference Pages} - a listing of C++ and QML APIs \endlist */