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authorFrederik Schwarzer <schwarzerf@gmail.com>2009-07-06 11:47:01 (GMT)
committerOswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@nokia.com>2009-07-06 12:01:25 (GMT)
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- .ts file -> TS file - .qm file -> QM file - .ui file -> UI file + a handfull of typos I stumbled over Merge-request: 802 Reviewed-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@nokia.com>
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/*!
\page porting4-designer.html
- \title Porting .ui Files to Qt 4
+ \title Porting UI Files to Qt 4
\contentspage {Porting Guides}{Contents}
\previouspage Porting to Qt 4 - Drag and Drop
\nextpage Porting to Graphics View
\ingroup porting
- \brief Information about changes to the .ui file format in Qt 4.
+ \brief Information about changes to the UI file format in Qt 4.
Qt Designer has changed significantly in the Qt 4 release. We
have moved away from viewing Qt Designer as an IDE and
@@ -57,20 +57,20 @@
IDEs.
The most important changes in Qt Designer 4 which affect porting
- for \c .ui files are summarized below:
+ for UI files are summarized below:
\list
\o \bold{Removed project manager.}
- Qt Designer now only reads and edits \c .ui
- files. It has no notion of a project (\c .pro file).
+ Qt Designer now only reads and edits UI
+ files. It has no notion of a project file (\c .pro).
\o \bold{Removed code editor.}
Qt Designer can no longer be used to edit source files.
- \o \bold{Changed format of \c .ui files.}
+ \o \bold{Changed format of UI files.}
Qt Designer 4 cannot read files created by Qt Designer 3 and
vice versa. However, we provide the tool \c uic3 to generate Qt
- 4 code out of Qt 3 \c .ui files, and to convert old \c .ui files
+ 4 code out of Qt 3 UI files, and to convert old UI files
into a format readable by Qt Designer 4.
\o \bold{Changed structure of the code generated by \c uic.}
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
\c Ui::MyForm.
\o \bold{New resource file system.} Icon data is no longer
- stored in the \c .ui file. Instead, icons are put into resource
+ stored in the UI file. Instead, icons are put into resource
files (\c .qrc).
\endlist
@@ -146,9 +146,9 @@
therefore has an interface identical to that of a class generated
by \c uic in Qt 3.
- Creating POD classes from \c .ui files is more flexible and
+ Creating POD classes from UI files is more flexible and
generic than the old approach of creating widgets. Qt Designer
- doesn't need to know anything about the main container apart from
+ does not need to know anything about the main container apart from
the base widget class it inherits. Indeed, \c Ui::HelloWorld can
be used to populate any container that inherits QWidget.
Conversely, all non-GUI aspects of the main container may be
@@ -163,10 +163,10 @@
\list 1
\o To generate headers and source code for a widget to implement any
custom signals and slots added using Qt Designer 3.
- \o To generate a new \c .ui file that can be used with Qt Designer 4.
+ \o To generate a new UI file that can be used with Qt Designer 4.
\endlist
- You can use both these methods in combination to obtain \c{.ui}, header
+ You can use both these methods in combination to obtain UI, header
and source files that you can use as a starting point when porting
your user interface to Qt 4.
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@
The resulting files \c myform.h and \c myform.cpp implement the
form in Qt 4 using a QWidget that will include custom signals,
- slots and connections specified in the \c .ui file. However,
+ slots and connections specified in the UI file. However,
see below for the \l{#Limitations of uic3}{limitations} of this
method.
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@
The resulting file \c myform4.ui can be edited in Qt Designer 4. The
header file for the form is generated by Qt 4's \c uic. See the
- \l{Using a Designer .ui File in Your Application} chapter of the
+ \l{Using a Designer UI File in Your Application} chapter of the
\l{Qt Designer Manual} for information about the preferred ways to
use forms created with Qt Designer 4.
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@
\section1 Limitations of uic3
- Converting Qt 3 \c .ui files to Qt 4 has some limitations. The
+ Converting Qt 3 UI files to Qt 4 has some limitations. The
most noticeable limitation is the fact that since \c uic no
longer generates a QObject, it's not possible to define custom
signals or slots for the form. Instead, the programmer must
@@ -231,9 +231,9 @@
A quick and dirty way to port forms containing custom signals and
slots is to generate the code using \c uic3, rather than \c uic. Since
\c uic3 does generate a QWidget, it will populate it with custom
- signals, slots and connections specified in the \c .ui file.
- However, \c uic3 can only generate code from Qt 3 \c .ui files, which
- implies that the \c .ui files never get translated and need to be
+ signals, slots and connections specified in the UI file.
+ However, \c uic3 can only generate code from Qt 3 UI files, which
+ implies that the UI files never get translated and need to be
edited using Qt Designer 3.
Note also that it is possible to create implicit connections
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@
\section1 Icons
In Qt 3, the binary data for the icons used by a form was stored
- in the \c .ui file. In Qt 4 icons and any other external files
+ in the UI file. In Qt 4 icons and any other external files
can be compiled into the application by listing them in a \l{The
Qt Resource System}{resource file} (\c .qrc). This file is
translated into a C++ source file using Qt's resource compiler
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@
the following steps:
\list 1
- \o Use \c{uic3 -convert} to obtain a \c .ui file understood by
+ \o Use \c{uic3 -convert} to obtain a UI file understood by
Qt Designer 4.
\o Create a \c .qrc file with a list of all the icon files.