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diff --git a/doc/html/designer-manual-5.html b/doc/html/designer-manual-5.html index 61b38dff..96337521 100644 --- a/doc/html/designer-manual-5.html +++ b/doc/html/designer-manual-5.html @@ -45,11 +45,11 @@ body { background: #ffffff; color: black; } <ul><li><p>Grouping forms that belong together.</p> <li><p>Sharing images between different forms.</p> <li><p>Sharing database information between different forms.</p> -</ul><p>The following sections explain these benefits in more detail, and why project management is retquired to achieve them.</p> +</ul><p>The following sections explain these benefits in more detail, and why project management is required to achieve them.</p> <h4><a name="2-1"></a>Grouping forms</h4> <p>Grouping forms means that <em>TQt Designer</em> maintains a list of the <tt>.ui</tt> files that belong to the same project. This makes it easy to switch between forms with a single mouse click.</p> <h4><a name="2-2"></a>Sharing images in a image collection</h4> -<p>In TQt 2.x's <em>TQt Designer</em> each form included the images it retquired and no images were shared. This led to duplication when several forms needed to use the same images. Furthermore the images were stored in the XML <tt>.ui</tt> files which made them large.</p> +<p>In TQt 2.x's <em>TQt Designer</em> each form included the images it required and no images were shared. This led to duplication when several forms needed to use the same images. Furthermore the images were stored in the XML <tt>.ui</tt> files which made them large.</p> <p>As a workaround, we introduced a pixmap-loading function that you could define in <em>TQt Designer</em>. It then was your responsibility to provide the implementation of this function in your application code. The big disadvantage of this approach was that you couldn't see the images during the design process in <em>TQt Designer</em>. This not only makes designing a form less visually interesting, but also has a noticeable impact on geometry management.</p> <p>In the TQt 3.0 version of <em>TQt Designer</em> we've introduced the concept of a project image collection. If you use a project you can add images to the project's image collection, and these images can be shared and used by any of the forms you include in the project. The images are stored as PNGs (portable network graphics) in a subdirectory, <tt>images/</tt>, inside the project's directory. Whenever you modify the image collection, <em>TQt Designer</em> creates a source file which contains both the image data in binary format and a function to instantiate the images. The images are accessible by all forms in the project and the data is shared.</p> <p>A further benefit of using an image collection is that the images are added to the default TQMimeSourceFactory. This way they are accessible from rich-text labels, What's This? context help and even tooltips through standard HTML image tags. The <em>source</em> argument of the image tag is simply the image's name in the image collection. This also works during the design process in <em>TQt Designer</em>.</p> @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ body { background: #ffffff; color: black; } <p>In most non-trivial database applications you will want to access the database from more than one form. This is why the <tt>.db</tt> file is part of a project, not just part of a single form.</p> <h4><a name="2-4"></a>.pro files</h4> <p><em>TQt Designer</em> needs to store information on projects, for example, the list of forms, the image collection and information about available databases and how to access them. The majority of TQt users already use a project file format to create multiplatform makefiles: <tt>tmake</tt> (and with TQt 3.0 <tt>qmake</tt>) project <tt>.pro</tt> files. These files already contain the list of forms, <tt>.ui</tt> files, used in the project for <tt>uic</tt>.</p> -<p>We've extended the sections in the <tt>.pro</tt> file to include the extra information that <em>TQt Designer</em> needs to manage projects. For example, when you add a form to your project in <em>TQt Designer</em>, it is automatically added to the FORMS section of the project file, and thus <tt>qmake</tt> will generate the retquired build rules without any further work. Similarly, the images are added to the IMAGES section and thus gets automatically compiled into your executable.</p> +<p>We've extended the sections in the <tt>.pro</tt> file to include the extra information that <em>TQt Designer</em> needs to manage projects. For example, when you add a form to your project in <em>TQt Designer</em>, it is automatically added to the FORMS section of the project file, and thus <tt>qmake</tt> will generate the required build rules without any further work. Similarly, the images are added to the IMAGES section and thus gets automatically compiled into your executable.</p> <p>We don't force you to use <tt>qmake</tt>; if you prefer another build system, for example automake/autoconf or jam, you can still continue to use it. Look upon the <tt>.pro</tt> file as a file that describes the GUI part of your application. All you need to do -- as previously -- is add the <tt>.ui</tt> files and the images collection to your own Makefiles.</p> <h3><a name="3"></a>Extending the functionality of a form</h3> <p>First let us look at a small figure that shows the relationship between <tt>.ui</tt> files, generated code and application code:</p> |