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// SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-Qt-Commercial OR GFDL-1.3-no-invariants-only
/*!
\page qtmodules.html
\title All Modules
\brief A list of all modules in Qt 6.
\ingroup classlists
\brief Qt 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. Except the testing modules, which will remain source compatible,
these modules will remain source and binary compatible throughout Qt 6.
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.
//! [essentials]
\grid
\griditem {qtcore-index.html}{Qt Core} {
Core non-graphical classes used by other modules.
}
\griditem {qtdbus-index.html}{Qt D-Bus} {
Classes for inter-process communication over the D-Bus protocol.
}
\griditem {qtgui-index.html}{Qt GUI} {
Base classes for graphical user interface (GUI) components.
}
\griditem {qtnetwork-index.html}{Qt Network} {
Classes to make network programming easier and more portable.
}
\griditem {qtqml-index.html}{Qt Qml} {
Classes for QML and JavaScript languages.
}
\griditem {qtqmlcore-index.html}{Qt Qml Core} {
Provides core system functionality in QML, exposing platform‑independent application
permissions and essential system‑related types.
}
\griditem {qmlworkerscript-index.html}{Qt Qml WorkerScript} {
Enables the use of threads in a Qt Quick application.
}
\griditem {qtqmlmodels-index.html}{Qt Qml Models} {
Contains types for defining data models in QML.
}
\griditem {qtquick-index.html}{Qt Quick} {
A declarative framework for building highly dynamic applications
with custom UIs.
}
\griditem {qtquickcontrols-index.html}{Qt Quick Controls} {
Lightweight QML types for creating performant user interfaces for
desktop, embedded, and mobile devices.
}
\griditem {qtquickdialogs-index.html}{Qt Quick Dialogs} {
Types for creating and interacting with system dialogs from a Qt
Quick application.
}
\griditem {qtquicklayouts-index.html}{Qt Quick Layouts} {
Layouts are items that are used to arrange Qt Quick 2 based items
in the user interface.
}
\griditem {qtquicktest-index.html}{Qt Quick Test} {
A unit test framework for QML applications, where the test cases
are written as JavaScript functions.
}
\griditem {qttest-index.html}{Qt Test} {
Classes for unit testing Qt applications and libraries.
}
\griditem {qtwidgets-index.html}{Qt Widgets} {
Classes to extend Qt GUI with C++ widgets.
}
\endgrid
//! [essentials]
\note The binary compatibility guarantee does not apply to \l {Qt Test} and
\l {Qt Quick Test} modules. However, they will remain source compatible.
\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.
//! [addons]
\grid
\griditem {activeqt-index.html}{Active Qt} {
Classes for applications which use ActiveX and COM (Windows only).
}
\griditem {qtbluetooth-index.html}{Qt Bluetooth} {
Provides access to Bluetooth hardware.
}
\griditem {qtcanvaspainter-index.html}{Qt Canvas Painter} {
Provides an API for accelerated, imperative 2D painting.
}
\griditem {qtcoap-index.html}{Qt CoAP} {
Implements the client side of CoAP defined by RFC 7252.
}
\griditem {qtconcurrent-index.html}{Qt Concurrent} {
Classes for writing multi-threaded programs without using low-level
threading primitives.
}
\griditem {qtgraphs-index.html}{Qt Graphs} {
Provides functionality for visualizing data in 3D as bar, scatter, and
surface graphs, as well as 2D in area, bar, donut, line, pie, scatter, and
spline graphs.
}
\griditem {qtgrpc-index.html}{Qt GRPC} {
Provides an ability to generate Qt-based classes from protobuf specifications
used to communicate with gRPC® services.
}
\griditem {qthelp-index.html}{Qt Help} {
Classes for integrating documentation into applications.
}
\griditem {qthttpserver-index.html}{Qt HTTP Server} {
A framework for embedding an HTTP server into a Qt application.
}
\griditem {qtimageformats-index.html}{Qt Image Formats} {
Plugins for additional image formats: TIFF, MNG, TGA, WBMP.
}
\griditem {qtlottieanimation-index.html}{Qt Lottie Animation} {
A QML API for rendering graphics and animations in JSON format,
exported by the Bodymovin plugin for Adobe® After Effects.
}
\griditem {qtmqtt-index.html}{Qt MQTT} {
Provides an implementation of the MQTT protocol specification.
}
\griditem {qtmultimedia-index.html}{Qt Multimedia} {
A rich set of QML types and C++ classes to handle multimedia content.
Also includes APIs to handle camera access.
}
\griditem {qtnetworkauth-index.html}{Qt Network Authorization} {
Provides support for OAuth-based authorization to online services.
}
\griditem {qtnfc-index.html}{Qt NFC} {
Provides access to Near-Field communication (NFC) hardware. On desktop
platforms NDEF access is only supported for Type 4 tags.
}
\griditem {qtopcua-index.html}{Qt OPC UA} {
Protocol for data modeling and exchange of data in industrial
applications.
}
\griditem {qtopengl-index.html}{Qt OpenGL} {
C++ classes that make it easy to use OpenGL in Qt applications.
A separate library (Qt OpenGL Widgets) provides a widget for
rendering OpenGL graphics.
}
\griditem {qtpositioning-index.html}{Qt Positioning} {
Provides access to position, satellite info and area monitoring classes.
}
\griditem {qtprintsupport-index.html}{Qt Print Support} {
Classes to make printing easier and more portable.
}
\griditem {qtprotobuf-index.html}{Qt Protobuf} {
Provides an ability to generate Qt-based classes from protobuf specifications.
}
\griditem {qtqmlcompiler-index.html}{Qt Qml Compiler} {
Contains shared functionality needed by QML tooling like the Qt Quick Compiler and qmllint.
}
\griditem {qtqmldesignsupport-index.html}{Qt Qml Design Support} {
Provides design-time support for QML development.
}
\griditem {qtqmlnetwork-index.html}{Qt Qml Network} {
Exposes the Qt C++ Network functionality to QML.
}
\griditem {qml-xmllistmodel.html}{Qt Qml XmlListModel} {
Allows you to create a read-only model from XML data in QML.
}
\griditem {qtquick3d-index.html}{Qt Quick 3D} {
Provides a high-level API for creating 3D content or UIs based on
Qt Quick.
}
\griditem {qtquick3dphysics-index.html}{Qt Quick 3D Physics} {
Qt Quick 3D Physics provides a high-level QML module adding physical
simulation capabilities to Qt Quick 3D.
}
\griditem {qtquick-effects-qmlmodule.html}{Qt Quick Effects} {
Provides QML types for applying one or more simple graphical effects to
Qt Quick items.
}
\griditem {qtquick-particles-qmlmodule.html}{Qt Quick Particles} {
Provides QML types for particle effects.
}
\griditem {qtquicktimeline-index.html}{Qt Quick Timeline} {
Enables keyframe-based animations and parameterization.
}
\griditem {qtquickwidgets-index.html}{Qt Quick Widgets} {
Provides a C++ widget class for displaying a Qt Quick user interface.
}
\griditem {qtremoteobjects-index.html}{Qt Remote Objects} {
Provides an easy to use mechanism for sharing a QObject's API
(Properties/Signals/Slots) between processes or devices.
}
\griditem {qtscxml-index.html}{Qt SCXML} {
Provides classes and tools for creating state machines from SCXML files and
embedding them in applications.
}
\griditem {qtsensors-index.html}{Qt Sensors} {
Provides access to sensor hardware on Android, iOS, and Windows platforms.
}
\griditem {qtserialbus-index.html}{Qt Serial Bus} {
Provides access to serial industrial bus interfaces. Currently, the module
supports the CAN bus and Modbus protocols.
}
\griditem {qtserialport-index.html}{Qt Serial Port} {
Provides classes to interact with hardware and virtual serial ports.
}
\griditem {qtshadertools-index.html}{Qt Shader Tools} {
Provides tools for the cross-platform Qt shader pipeline. These enable
processing graphics and compute shaders to make them usable for Qt Quick and other
components in the Qt ecosystem.
}
\griditem {qtspatialaudio-index.html}{Qt Spatial Audio} {
Provides support for spatial audio. Create sound scenes in 3D space containing different
sound sources and room related properties such as reverb.
}
\griditem {qtsql-index.html}{Qt SQL} {
Classes for database integration using SQL.
}
\griditem {qtstatemachine-index.html}{Qt State Machine} {
Provides classes for creating and executing state graphs.
}
\griditem {qtsvg-index.html}{Qt SVG} {
Classes for displaying the contents of SVG files. Supports a subset of the
SVG 1.2 Tiny standard. A separate library (Qt SVG Widgets) provides support
for rendering SVG files in a widget UI.
}
\griditem {qttexttospeech-index.html}{Qt TextToSpeech} {
Provides support for synthesizing speech from text and playing it as audio
output.
}
\griditem {qtuitools-index.html}{Qt UI Tools} {
Classes for loading QWidget based forms created in \QD dynamically, at runtime.
}
\griditem {qtvirtualkeyboard-index.html}{Qt Virtual Keyboard} {
A framework for implementing different input methods as
well as a QML virtual keyboard. Supports localized keyboard
layouts and custom visual themes.
}
\griditem {qtwaylandcompositor-index.html}{Qt Wayland Compositor} {
Provides a framework to develop a Wayland compositor on Linux
and Boot to Qt targets.
}
\griditem {qtwebchannel-index.html}{Qt WebChannel} {
Provides access to QObject or QML objects from HTML clients for seamless
integration of Qt applications with HTML/JavaScript clients.
}
\griditem {qtwebsockets-index.html}{Qt WebSockets} {
Provides WebSocket communication compliant with RFC 6455.
}
\griditem {qtwebview-index.html}{Qt WebView} {
Displays web content in a QML application by using APIs native to the platform,
without the need to include a full web browser stack.
}
\griditem {qtxml-index.html}{Qt XML} {
Handling of XML in a Document Object Model (DOM) API.
}
\griditem {qtgraphicaleffects5-index.html}{Qt 5 Compatibility APIs: Graphical Effects} {
Qt Graphical Effects module from Qt 5 provided for compatibility.
}
\griditem {qtcore5-index.html}{Qt 5 Core Compatibility APIs} {
Qt Core APIs that were in Qt 5 but not Qt 6.
}
\endgrid
//! [addons]
\section1 Qt Add-Ons in Technology Preview
The following add-ons are still in development, but are available as
technology previews. A technology preview module makes no promise of
source or binary \l {Compatibility promises}{compatibility} between
versions.
//! [techpreview-addons]
\grid
\griditem {qtlabsplatform-index.html}{Qt Labs Platform} {
Provides QML types for native platform extensions.
}
\griditem {qtlabsstylekit-index.html}{Qt Labs StyleKit} {
A dedicated styling API that streamlines styling
Qt Quick Controls through a set of shared design attributes.
}
\griditem {qtlocation-index.html}{Qt Location} {
Provides QML and C++ interfaces to create location-aware applications.
}
\griditem {qtopenapi-index.html}{Qt OpenAPI} {
Provides an extension of the upstream OpenAPI generator that generates
Qt HTTP clients, typically used for RESTful APIs.
}
\griditem {qttasktree-index.html}{Qt TaskTree} {
Provides a declarative way to compose and execute asynchronous task workflows.
}
\endgrid
//! [techpreview-addons]
\section1 Deprecated Qt Add-Ons
The following Qt add-ons are now obsolete. They are provided to keep old
source code working, but they are no longer maintained, and can be removed
in a future major Qt release. We advise against using these modules in new
code.
Each obsolete module comes with documentation that helps with porting
existing code to actively maintained alternatives.
\table
\header
\li Obsolete module
\li Alternative module
\li Migration guide
\row
\li \l{Qt 3D}
\li \l{Qt Quick 3D}
\li \l{Porting Qt 3D to Qt Quick 3D: A Migration Guide}
\row
\li \l{Qt Charts}
\li \l{Qt Graphs}
\li \l{Qt Graphs Migration from Qt Charts}
\row
\li \l{Qt Data Visualization}
\li \l{Qt Graphs}
\li \l{Qt Graphs Migration from Qt DataVisualization}
\endtable
\section1 Qt Extension Modules
Qt Extension Modules bring additional functionality to Qt. They may be part
of a given Qt release, but can deviate from the other Qt modules in terms of
release schedule, platform support, the binaries Qt provides, commercial
support, or compatibility promises. You can find specific details in the
module documentation for each Extension Module.
Qt Framework, comprising Qt Essentials and Qt Add-Ons, is fully
functional without Qt WebEngine. Qt WebEngine is an optional extension module adding
capabilities for accessing web content to applications that specifically
require it.
//! [extensions]
\grid
Classes and functions for rendering PDF documents on desktop platforms.
}
Classes and functions for embedding web content in applications using the
Chromium browser project.
}
\endgrid
//! [extensions]
\section1 Qt Commercial Modules
Qt Commercial Modules are available under a commercial license. They are
not part of the Qt open source offering, and are not available under the Qt
open source license. You can find specific details in the module
documentation for each Commercial Module.
//! [commercial]
\grid
Provides API to track application usage and send the analytic data
to a Qt Insight back-end server.
}
Provides APIs for creating a simple VNC®-compatible server with Qt.
}
\endgrid
//! [commercial]
\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{All 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
\li \l{Changes to Supported Modules} - status of Qt 5 modules in Qt 6.0
\endlist
*/