Time for action – Creating a Qt Widgets project

The first step to develop an application with Qt Creator is to create a project using one of the templates provided by the IDE.

From the File menu of Qt Creator, choose New File or Project. There are a number of project types to choose from. Follow the given steps for creating a Qt Desktop project:

  1. For a widget-based application, choose the Application group and the Qt Widgets Application template, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. The next step is to choose a name and location for your new project:
  1. We will create a simple tic-tac-toe game, so we will name our project tictactoe and ...

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