Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "This API is centered on QNetworkAccessManager,which handles the complete communication between your game and the Internet."

A block of code is set as follows:

QNetworkRequest request;request.setUrl(QUrl("http://localhost/version.txt"));request.setHeader(QNetworkRequest::UserAgentHeader, "MyGame");m_manager->get(request);

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

void FileDownload::downloadFinished(QNetworkReply ...

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