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Header files - Compile time
Programmers need to include the Qt header files. The Qt header files are usually located in the \c include subdirectory of Qt distributions. Care must be taken to include the header files of the relevant release of Qt. Those with a command-line compiler will typically use options such as \c{/I%QTDIR%\include} or \c{-I"$QTDIR"/include} provided \c QTDIR specifies the relevant release of Qt.
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Programmers need to run \e moc and other tools such as \e uic. These tools are usually located in the \c bin subdirectory of Qt distributions. Either run \c "$QTDIR"/bin/moc and \c "$QTDIR"/bin/uic or add \c "$QTDIR"/bin to your \c PATH and run \c moc and \c uic. If you use \c qmake the appropriate lines will be added to your Makefiles so that \e uic and \e moc will be executed as required.
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Programmers need to link with the Qt static or shared libraries. The Qt libraries are usually located in the \c lib subdirectory of Qt distributions. Care must be taken to link with the libraries of the relevant release of Qt. Those with a command-line compiler will typically use options such as \c{/L%QTDIR%\lib\qt.lib} or \c{-L"$QTDIR"/lib} \c -lqt provided \c QTDIR specifies the relevant release of Qt.
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Users of programs linked with shared Qt libraries need these same shared libraries to run these programs. The Qt libraries are usually located in the \c lib subdirectory of Qt distributions. Shared libraries are made available to programs in places such as \c{C:\windows\system} on Windows platforms, directories listed in file \c /etc/ld.so.conf on Linux, standard \c lib directories on Unix, or directories listed in environment variables \c LD_LIBRARY_PATH, \c SHLIB_PATH, or \c LIBPATH on various Unix flavours. Make the relevant Qt libraries available using one of these mechanisms.
Qt distributions consist of different files needed at compile time, link time, or run time. Trolltech distributes Qt in the form of a source package that contain all these files once they have been built. Other vendors distribute Qt in the form of binary packages. Binary packages usually consist of two parts: \list \i shared libraries in the run time package, usually called \c qt3. \i header files, static libraries, the moc and other tools in the developers' kit, usually called \c qt3-dev. \endlist Depending on how you are using Qt, you need to make specific parts of the Qt distribution available to your programs. Typical situations are described below. \target qtbin \section2 Developers building for a single version of Qt on Unix - Qt binary packages You build programs with a single version of Qt, but you still need to run programs linked with another version of Qt. You are typically a Linux developer who builds programs for Qt 3.x on a KDE desktop based on Qt 2.x. Qt packages are usually split into a shared library package with a name like \c qt and a developer package with a name like \c qt-dev. You will need the appropriate packages: \list \i To build programs you will need the header files, the libraries, the moc and other tools from Qt 3.x. They are included in the developer package of Qt 3.x (\c qt3-dev or similar). \i To run programs you will need the shared libraries of Qt 3.x and Qt 2.x. They are included in the regular packages of Qt 3.x (\c qt3 or similar) and Qt 2.x (\c qt2 or similar). \endlist Just install the packages, \c qt2, \c qt3, and \c qt3-dev. You may need to set the environment variable \c QTDIR to point to Qt 3.x. \target qtsrc \section2 Developers building for two versions of Qt on Unix - Qt sources You build and run programs for Qt 2.x and Qt 3.x. You will need: \list \i the header files, the libraries, the moc and other tools from Qt 3.x and Qt 2.x to build programs, \i the shared libraries of Qt 3.x and Qt 2.x to run programs. \endlist Get the source distributions of both Qt 2.x and Qt 3.x. \list 1 \i Install and build Qt 2.x and Qt 3.x, usually in \c /opt or \c /usr/local. In the case of \c /opt: \code $ cd /opt $ gunzip -c \c qt-x11-2.3.1.tar.gz | tar xf - $ cd qt-2.3.1 $ setenv QTDIR /opt/qt-2.3.1 $ configure [options] $ make $ cd /opt $ gunzip -c qt-x11-free-3.0.0.tar.gz | tar xf - $ cd qt-3.0.0 $ setenv QTDIR /opt/qt-3.0.0 $ configure [options] $ make \endcode \i Make shared libraries available to programs at run time. Either add both \c /opt/qt-2.3.1/lib and \c /opt/qt-3.0.0/lib to your environment variable \c LD_LIBRARY_PATH or file \c /etc/ld.so.conf or whataver mechanism you're using, or make links to the libraries in a standard directory like \c /usr/local/lib: \code cd /usr/local/lib ln -s /opt/qt-2.3.1/lib/libqt.so.2 . ln -s /opt/qt-2.3.1/lib/libtqt-mt.so.2 . ln -s /opt/qt-2.3.1/lib/libqutil.so.1 . ln -s /opt/qt-3.0.0/lib/libqt.so.3 . ln -s /opt/qt-3.0.0/lib/libtqui.so.1 . \endcode \endlist To develop with Qt 2.x use: \code setenv QTDIR /opt/qt-2.3.1 setenv PATH ${QTDIR}/bin:${PATH} \endcode To develop with Qt 3.x use: \code setenv QTDIR /opt/qt-3.0.0 setenv PATH ${QTDIR}/bin:${PATH} \endcode Setting \c QTDIR ensures that the proper resources are used, such as the documentation appropriate to the version of Qt you're using. Also your Makfiles may refer to \c "$QTDIR"/include and \c "$QTDIR"/lib to include the proper header files and link with the proper libraries. Setting the \c PATH ensures that the proper version of moc and other tools is being used. \target nowinman \section1 Using Qt on X11 without a window manager When using Qt without a window manager on Unix/X11, you will most likely experience focus problems. Without a window manager, there is no focus handling on X11, and no concept of an active window either. If you want your application to work in such an environment, you have to explicitly mark a window as active \e after showing it: \code yourWindow->show(); yourWindow->setActiveWindow(); \endcode Note that setActiveWindow() won't work if the widget does not become physically visible during this event cycle. However, without a window manager running, this is guaranteed to happen. For the curious reader: setActiveWindow() emulates a window manager by explicitly setting the X Input Focus to a widget's top level window. */ /*! \page bughowto.html \title How to Report A Bug If you think you have found a bug in Qt, we would like to hear about it so that we can fix it. Before reporting a bug, please check the \link commonproblems.html Brief Technical FAQ\endlink, the \link http://www.trolltech.com/developer/faqs/ FAQs\endlink, and the \link http://www.trolltech.com/platforms/ Platform Notes\endlink on our web site to see if the issue is already known. Always include the following information in your bug report: \list 1 \i The name and version number of your compiler \i The name and version number of your operating system \i The version of Qt you are using, and what configure options it was compiled with. \endlist If the problem you are reporting is only at visible run-time, try to create a small test program that shows the problem when run. 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*/ /*! \page guibooks.html \title Books about GUI This is not a comprehensive list of books, there are many other books worth buying. Here we mention just a few GUI/UI books that don't gather dust in our shelves. C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3 by Jasmin Blanchette and Mark Summerfield, ISBN 0-13-124072-2. This is the Official Qt book written by two veteran Trolls. \link http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0131240722/trolltech/ (Read more about it or buy it.)\endlink The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman, ISBN 0-38526774-6, is one of the classics of human interface design. Norman shows how badly something as simple as a kitchen stove can be designed, and everyone should read it who will design a dialog box, write an error message, or design just about anything else humans are supposed to use. \link http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385267746/trolltech/t (Read more or buy it.)\endlink \target fowler GUI Design Handbook by Susan Fowler, ISBN 0-07-059274-8, is an alphabetical dictionary of widgets and other user interface elements, with comprehensive coverage of each. Each chapter covers one widget or other element, contains the most important recommendation from the Macintosh, Windows and Motif style guides, notes about common problems, comparison with other widgets that can serve some of the same roles as this one, etc. \link http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0070592748/trolltech/t (Read more or buy it.)\endlink Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines, second edition, ISBN 0-201-62216-5, is worth buying for the \e {don't}s alone. Even though you're not writing Macintosh software, avoiding most of what it advises against will produce more easily comprehensible software. Doing what it tells you to \e do helps, too. \link http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201622165/trolltech/t (Read more or buy it.)\endlink This book is now available \link http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/HIGuidelines/HIGuidelines-2.html on the web\endlink and there is a \link http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/HIGOS8Guide/thig-2.html Mac OS 8 addendum.\endlink The Microsoft Windows User Experience, ISBN 1-55615-679-0, is Microsoft's look and feel Bible. Indispensable for everyone who has customers that worship Microsoft, and it's quite good, too. \link http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735605661/trolltech/t (Read more or buy it.)\endlink Microsoft's guidelines are often available on the web, but have occasionally been hidden in an impenetrable maze of javascript. \link http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnwue/html/welcome.asp Try and see.\endlink The Icon Book by William Horton, ISBN 0-471-59900-X, is a perhaps the only thorough coverage of icons and icon use in software. In order for icons to be successful, people must be able to do four things with them: decode, recognize, find and activate them. This book explains these goals from scratch and how to reach them, both with single icons and icon families. Some 500 examples are scattered throughout the text, generally in groups of four or five. \link http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/047159900X/trolltech/t (Read more or buy it.)\endlink \section1 Buying these books from \link http://www.amazon.com/text/ Amazon.com.\endlink These books are made available in association with Amazon.com, our favorite on-line bookstore. Here is more information about \link http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/help/shipping-policy.html/t Amazon.com's shipping options\endlink and its \link http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/help/desk.html/t customer service.\endlink When you buy a book by following one of these links, Amazon.com gives about 15% of the purchase price to \link http://www.amnesty.org Amnesty International.\endlink */ /*! \page licenses.html \title Licenses for Code Used in Qt Qt contains a little code that is not under the \link license.html QPL\endlink, the \link gpl.html GPL\endlink, or the Qt Commercial License Agreement, but rather under specific highly permissive licenses from the original authors. This page lists the licenses used for that code, names the authors, and links to the points where it is used. Trolltech gratefully acknowledges these and others contribution to Qt. We recommend that all programs that use Qt also acknowledge these contributions, and quote all these license statements in an appendix to the documentation. \legaleselist */ /*! \page geometry.html \title Window Geometry \section1 Overview QWidget provides several functions that deal with a widget's geometry. Some of these functions operate on the pure client area (i.e. the window excluding the window frame), others include the window frame. The differentiation is done in a way that covers the most common usage transparently. \table \row \i Including the window frame: \i x(), y(), frameGeometry(), pos() and move() \row \i Excluding the window frame: \i geometry(), width(), height(), rect() and size() \endtable Note that the distinction only matters for decorated top-level widgets. For all child widgets, the frame geometry is equal to the widget's client geometry. This diagram shows most of the functions in use: \img geometry.png Geometry diagram \section1 Unix/X11 peculiarities On Unix/X11, a window does not have a frame until the window manager decorates it. This happens asynchronously at some point in time after calling show() and the first paint event the window receives: or it does not happen at all. Bear in mind that X11 is policy-free (others call it flexible). Thus you cannot make any safe assumption about the decoration frame your window will get. Basic rule: there's always one user who uses a window manager that breaks your assumption, and who will complain to you. Furthermore, a toolkit cannot simply place windows on the screen. All Qt can do is to send certain hints to the window manager. The window manager, a separate process, may either obey, ignore or misunderstand them. Due to the partially unclear Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual (ICCCM), window placement is handled quite differently in existing window managers. X11 provides no standard or easy way to get the frame geometry once the window is decorated. Qt solves this problem with nifty heuristics and clever code that works on a wide range of window managers that exist today. Don't be surprised if you find one where frameGeometry() returns bogus results though. Nor does X11 provide a way to maximize a window. The showMaximized() function in Qt therefore has to emulate the feature. Its result depends on the result of frameGeometry() and the capability of the window manager to do proper window placement, neither of which can be guaranteed. \section1 Restoring a Window's Geometry A common task in modern applications is to restore a window's geometry in a later session. On Windows, this is basically storing the result of geometry() and calling setGeometry() in the next session before calling show(). On X11, this won't work because an invisible window doesn't have a frame yet. The window manager would decorate the window later. When this happens, the window shifts towards the bottom/right corner of the screen depending on the size of the decoration frame. X theoretically provides a way to avoid this shift. Our tests have shown, though, that almost all window managers fail to implement this feature. A workaround is to call setGeometry() after show(). This has the two disadvantages that the widget appears at a wrong place for a millisecond (results in flashing) and that currently only every second window manager gets it right. A safer solution is to store both pos() and size() and to restore the geometry using resize() and move() before calling show(), as demonstrated in the following example: \code MyWidget* widget = new MyWidget ... QPoint p = widget->pos(); // store position QSize s = widget->size(); // store size ... widget = new MyWidget; widget->resize( s ); // restore size widget->move( p ); // restore position widget->show(); // show widget \endcode This method works on both MS-Windows and most existing X11 window managers. */