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author | Frederik Schwarzer <schwarzerf@gmail.com> | 2009-07-06 11:47:01 (GMT) |
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committer | Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@nokia.com> | 2009-07-06 12:01:25 (GMT) |
commit | 33604fb02fa463f36fa78e515bb42a34a746f0f2 (patch) | |
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general wording change for some file type names
- .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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diff --git a/doc/src/porting4-designer.qdoc b/doc/src/porting4-designer.qdoc index 916894b..7de1d43 100644 --- a/doc/src/porting4-designer.qdoc +++ b/doc/src/porting4-designer.qdoc @@ -41,12 +41,12 @@ /*! \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. |