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... headerfilesfor itslibraries. Each of thesefilescontains
theinterfacedescriptionsofall of theclassesofalibrary ;the name of theheader
filematches th enameofthe library.Thus,inthe examples so far,which haveonly
used ... anothertopicfor which knowledge of
thecontents of theQtlibrariesisofparticularinterest. Besidesthe headerfilesfor
individualclass definitions,whose filenames matchthe namesofthe classesthey
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1 Basics,Tools, and First Code
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important specificproperties. Thesubsequentchaptersconcentrate on ... displaythe
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value.
Theaim is for allthree widgets to alwaysdisplaythesamevalue.Ifthe user changes
thevalue via theslider ,the value mustalsobeadjusted in thespinboxandinthe
label. Thesameappliestothe...
... framework. These
can be found in theWidgetBox,which theprogram normallyplaces on theleft
side of thescreen.Tocreateanewlabel, welook for theDisplayWidgets group(at
thebottomofthe box)and pull theLabel ... generates theC++ fileui_mydialog.h
from mydialog.ui,using uic. Thelatter contains theinterfacedescription of the
code that implements thedialog. (Weexplainthisfile andits useinthe rest of the
code for theapplicationprogram ... haveacleanarrangement.Toavoidhavingtoexplicitly
positioninterfaceelementsdowntothe last pixel ,the Qt Designerprovides some
standardlayouts.Togroup anumber of widgets together,you can first highlight
them bydrawingarectangle around them allwiththe left mousebutton, and
then...
... sedonaMainWindow
theuserfriendlinessofthe software. Theyshould thereforebeprovided as amatter
of course in thedesignofuserinterfaces.Withthe acceleratorsinplace ,the design
viewof th eeditorshouldcorrespondtothatshowninFigure4.3.
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gramming.Secrecyenforcesabstractionbyonlygranting theclass membersaccess
to theirownmethods.
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can change theinternaldesignofthe classwithout havingtoadjustthe ... onlythepointer to the
instance of thegenerated classchanges thebinarylayoutinthe compileroutput.
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As the idealsolution, Trolltechrecommendsmultipleinheritance. Butlikethe...
... ClickSplitterHandle::mouseDoubleClickEvent()wefirstdetermine thealignment
of thesplitter.Weobtainthe positionofthe splitter,using theQSplitter::indexOf()
method. This is also thepositionofthe widgetlyingtothe rightof(or directly
beneath) thesplitter.
Forreasons ... implements the le anddirectoryselector,istherefore
split into twoparts:Ifyou instantiatethe classvia theconstructor,thenQtdisplays
aseparatedialog. If you usethe predefinedstaticmethods,onthe otherhand,
which ... given as the rstargu-
ment,thenthe dialog willnot be modal .The nexttwoargumentsare thedialog
heading andthe startdirectory.
TheQDirclass provides static methods for retrievingthe paths to themostim-
portant...
... parametersspecifythepointer to theparentwidget, thehead-
ing, andthe user query.Thisisfollowed bythelistofstrings to be displayed.Then
comesthe indexof thelistele ment that thedrop-downwidgetdisplaysatthe ... itseventprocessing.
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thetimersthemselves.
In...
... entryusingthe <table>tag. Each rowof thetable consists of
twocells,one of which contains thenameofthe address book field (the key)and
theother ,the matching value.Bothofthemwillbeshowninthe tooltiponlyif ... QModelIndex&parent)const
{
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Viewsthatuse ouraddressbook modelcan discover thelabelingofthe rowsand
columns via theheaderData()method. To do so,theymustspecifythenumeric
positionofthe section of ... theleftofthe datasets willdenote
thedataset number.For horizontalorientation weuse theentries from the rst
dataset in thelist, which as weknowcontains thecolumn names:
// addressbook/addressbookmodel.cpp...
... wecreateanewmatrix.
Since thecenter of thedesir ed rotation is notthe currentzeropoint (origin) of the
coordinate system,but thepoint at thecenter of thesquare, wefirstmovethe
center of oursquaretothe zeropoint of ourcoordinate ... nowconnect theclicked()signalofthe Screenshot!buttontothe slot that
prepares thescreenshot,and thesignalofthe Printbuttontothe slot that enables
theconfiguration of theprintingparameters. Then wecallgrabDesktop(), ... Classes
overloadedconstructor andspecifythe ( x, y ) positionfor thetop left corner of
therectangle andthe height andthe wid th of therectangle,inthe formoffour
integers.
In casearectangleistobedefinednot via...
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producerplacesitinaqueue, from which theconsumertakesthemout.
As asharedresource, thequeue mustbeprotected byamutexbeforeitisaccessed
byeither theproducerorthe consumer. If theconsumerworks ... LOGGERTHREAD_H
In theconstructor wespecifythefilename for the le butdonot openit. In run()
weonlystartthe eventloop of thethreadvia exec(). append()opens the le for
each incoming message,writes thecontents of ... object.Todothisweinstantiate aQString andaqint32 and
usethese to read datainthe orderinwhich theywerereadinbyoperator<<().
Then wefill therespectivepropertyof thepasseddataset instance usingthe corre-
sponding...
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constructed :The lineeditwaits for theaddressofthe fe ed ,the contents of which
aredisplayed byaQTextViewon theleft-hand page.Onthe rightwesee thearticle
selected from thelistinaQTextBrowser.
Figure ... elements.
If theyreach theend of thecontainer andare advancedpastthe final element,
theythen point to anonexistentelement.Ifyou then tryto acc essthe element
pointed at bytheiterator ,the result ... Translations in theProgram
Loading thecorrect translationwhenthe program starts is thetaskofthe QTrans-
latorclass.Itwillsearchfor thetranslation files in theworking directoryof the
applicationifitisnot...
... iterators,
oneofwhich marksthe beginning of theareainthe first datastructure containing
theelementstobecompared,and theother,which marksthe endofthisarea.
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last elementtobecopied as thethird parameter,ratherthanthe first.Itinserts
thevaluestobecopied from thespecifiedelementsofthe second containerfrom
back ... i.value();
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With thehelpofthe indexoperatororbyusinginsert(), wefill up thedictionary
mapwithvalues. Theargument in brackets or the rstargument to insert() is the
key,for which,inthiscase, weuse valuesofthe...