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diff --git a/doc/html/designer-manual-4.html b/doc/html/designer-manual-4.html index d378ec9dd..e23d76c98 100644 --- a/doc/html/designer-manual-4.html +++ b/doc/html/designer-manual-4.html @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ body { background: #ffffff; color: black; } </blockquote> <h4><a name="1-2"></a>Creating the Dialog</h4> <a name="layouts-subsection"></a><h5><a name="1-2-1"></a>Layouts</h5> -<!-- index Layouts --><!-- index Scaling widgets and application windows --><!-- index Automatically scaling widgets and application windows --><!-- index Absolute positioning --><p>Layouts provide a means of laying out widgets, groups of widgets, and layouts into horizontal and vertical pairs and into grids. If you use layouts your forms, and the widgets they contain, will scale automatically when the user resizes the window. This is better than using absolute sizes and positions since you don't have to write any code to achieve the scaling and your users can make the most of their screen size whether they have a laptop or a very large screen desktop machine. Layouts use standard sizes for margins and widget spacing which helps give your applications a consistent and proportional look without retquiring any effort on your part. Layouts are also easier and faster to use than absolute positioning; you can just place your widgets on the form in approximate positions and leave the layout tools to size and scale the widgets correctly.</p> +<!-- index Layouts --><!-- index Scaling widgets and application windows --><!-- index Automatically scaling widgets and application windows --><!-- index Absolute positioning --><p>Layouts provide a means of laying out widgets, groups of widgets, and layouts into horizontal and vertical pairs and into grids. If you use layouts your forms, and the widgets they contain, will scale automatically when the user resizes the window. This is better than using absolute sizes and positions since you don't have to write any code to achieve the scaling and your users can make the most of their screen size whether they have a laptop or a very large screen desktop machine. Layouts use standard sizes for margins and widget spacing which helps give your applications a consistent and proportional look without requiring any effort on your part. Layouts are also easier and faster to use than absolute positioning; you can just place your widgets on the form in approximate positions and leave the layout tools to size and scale the widgets correctly.</p> <a name="adding-the-widgets-subsection"></a><h5><a name="1-2-2"></a>Adding the Widgets</h5> <p>We can use one of TQt's static dialogs to get the user to choose a color, but we need our own dialog to get them to give it a name. We'll create that dialog now.</p> <p>Click <b>File|New</b> to invoke the <em>New File</em> dialog, then click "Dialog", then click <b>OK</b>. Drag a corner of the new form to make it a lot smaller. Change the form's name (in the <a href="designer-manual-3.html#using-the-property-editor-sidebar">Property Editor</a>) to "ColorNameForm", and change its caption to "Color Tool -- Color Name". Click <b>File|Save</b>, then click <b>Save</b> to save it.</p> @@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ body { background: #ffffff; color: black; } <p align="center"><img align="middle" src="dialog3grpbox.png" width="472" height="371"> </p> <p>Click the ButtonGroup tool and click below the table view group box. Change this group's <em>title</em> property to "Copy to Clipboard As" and drag a corner to make it larger.</p> -<p>We want to add three radio buttons to the clipboard group. When there are a lot of identical widgets to add we can use <em>TQt Designer</em>'s multiple placement mode to work more tquickly.</p> +<p>We want to add three radio buttons to the clipboard group. When there are a lot of identical widgets to add we can use <em>TQt Designer</em>'s multiple placement mode to work more quickly.</p> <p><em>Double</em> click the RadioButton tool to enter multiple placement mode. Now every click on the form will create a radio button. Click inside, and towards the top of, the clipboard group box. Click below the first radio button. Click for a third time, below the second radio button. Now click the Pointer toolbar button to cancel multiple placement mode.</p> <p align="center"><img align="middle" src="dialog3clipgrp.png" width="473" height="370"> </p> |