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Qt 3.0 adds a lot of new features and improvements over the Qt 2.x
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series. Some internals have undergone major redesign and new classes
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and methods have been added.
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We have tried to keep the API of Qt 3.0 as compatible as possible with
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the Qt 2.x series. For most applications only minor changes will be
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needed to compile and run them successfully using Qt 3.0.
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One of the major new features that has been added in the 3.0 release
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is a module allowing you to easily work with databases. The API is
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platform independent and database neutral. This module is seamlessly
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integrated into Qt Designer, greatly simplifying the process of
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building database applications and using data aware widgets.
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Other major new features include a component architecture allowing you
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to build cross platform components, 'plugins' with Qt. You can use
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your own and third party plugins your own applications. The Unicode
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support of Qt 2.x has been greatly enhanced, it now includes full
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support for scripts written from right to left (e.g. Arabic and
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Hebrew) and also provides improved support for Asian languages.
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Many new classes have been added to the Qt Library. Amongst them are
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classes that provide a docking architecture (QDockArea/QDockWindow), a
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powerful rich text editor (QTextEdit), a class to store and access
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application settings (QSettings) and a class to create and communicate
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with processes (QProcess).
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Apart from the changes in the library itself a lot has been done to
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make the development of Qt applications with Qt 3.0 even easier than
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before. Two new applications have been added: Qt Linguist is a tool to
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help you translate your application into different languages; Qt
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Assistant is an easy to use help browser for the Qt documentation that
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supports bookmarks and can search by keyword.
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Another change concerns the Qt build system, which has been reworked
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to make it a lot easier to port Qt to new platforms. You can use this
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platform independent build system for your own applications.
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The Qt Library
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A large number of new features has been added to Qt 3.0. The following
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list gives an overview of the most important new and changed aspects
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of the Qt library. A full list of every new method follows the
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overview.
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Database support
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One of the major new features in Qt 3.0 is the SQL module that
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provides cross-platform access to SQL databases, making database
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application programming with Qt seamless and portable. The API, built
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with standard SQL, is database-neutral and software development is
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independent of the underlying database.
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A collection of tightly focused C++ classes are provided to give the
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programmer direct access to SQL databases. Developers can send raw SQL
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to the database server or have the Qt SQL classes generate SQL queries
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automatically. Drivers for Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL and ODBC are
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available and writing new drivers is straightforward.
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Tying the results of SQL queries to GUI components is fully supported
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by Qt's SQL widgets. These classes include a tabular data widget
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(for spreadsheet-like data presentation with in-place editing), a
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form-based data browser (which provides data navigation and edit
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functions) and a form-based data viewer (which provides read-only
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forms). This framework can be extended by using custom field editors,
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allowing for example, a data table to use custom widgets for in-place
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editing. The SQL module fully supports Qt's signal/slots mechanism,
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making it easy for developers to include their own data validation and
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auditing code.
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Qt Designer fully supports Qt's SQL module. All SQL widgets can be
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laid out within Qt Designer, and relationships can be established
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between controls visually. Many interactions can be defined purely in
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terms of Qt's signals/slots mechanism directly in Qt Designer.
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Component model - plugins
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The QLibrary class provides a platform independent wrapper for runtime
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loading of shared libraries. Access to the shared libraries uses a
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COM-like interface. QPluginManager makes it trivial to implement
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plugin support in applications. The Qt library is able to load
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additional styles, database drivers and text codecs from plugins which
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implement the relevant interfaces, e.g. QStyleFactoryInterface,
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QSqlDriverInterface or QTextCodecInterface. It is possible to remove
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unused components from the Qt library, and easy to extend any
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application with 3rd party styles, database drivers or text codecs.
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Qt Designer supports custom widgets in plugins, and will use the
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widgets both when designing and previewing forms.
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QComponentFactory makes it easy to register any kind of component in a
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global database (e.g. the Windows Registry) and to use any registered
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component.
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Rich text engine and editor
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The rich text engine originally introduced in Qt 2.0 has been further
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optimized and extended to support editing. It allows editing formatted
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text with different fonts, colors, paragraph styles, tables and
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images. The editor supports different word wrap modes, command-based
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undo/redo, multiple selections, drag and drop, and many other
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features. The engine is highly optimized for proccesing and displaying
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large documents quickly and efficiently.
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Unicode
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Apart from the rich text engine, another new feature of Qt 3.0 that
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relates to text handling is the greatly improved Unicode support. Qt
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3.0 includes an implementation of the bidirectional algorithm (BiDi)
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as defined in the Unicode standard and a shaping engine for Arabic,
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which gives full native language support to Arabic and Hebrew speaking
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people. At the same time the support for Asian languages has been
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greatly enhanced.
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The support is almost transparent for the developer using Qt to
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develop their applications. This means that developers who developed
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applications using Qt 2.x will automatically gain the full support for
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these languages when switching to Qt 3.0. Developers can rely on their
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application to work for people using writing systems different from
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Latin1, without having to worry about the complexities involved with
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these scripts, as Qt takes care of this automatically.
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Docked and Floating Windows
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Qt 3.0 introduces the concept of Dock Windows and Dock Areas. Dock
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windows are widgets, that can be attached to, and detached from, dock
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areas. The commonest kind of dock window is a tool bar. Any number of
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dock windows may be placed in a dock area. A main window can have dock
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areas, for example, QMainWindow provides four dock areas (top, left,
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bottom, right) by default. The user can freely move dock windows and
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place them at a convenient place in a dock area, or drag them out of
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the application and have them float freely as top level windows in
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their own right. Dock windows can also be minimized or hidden.
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For developers, dock windows behave just like ordinary widgets. QToolbar
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for example is now a specialized subclass of a dock window. The API
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of QMainWindow and QToolBar is source compatible with Qt 2.x, so
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existing code which uses these classes will continue to work.
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Regular Expressions
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Qt has always provided regular expression support, but that support
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was pretty much limited to what was required in common GUI control
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elements such as file dialogs. Qt 3.0 introduces a new regular
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expression engine that supports most of Perl's regex features and is
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Unicode based. The most useful additions are support for parentheses
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(capturing and non-capturing) and backreferences.
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Storing application settings
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Most programs will need to store some settings between runs, for
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example, user selected fonts, colors and other preferences, or a list
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of recently used files. The new QSettings class provides a platform
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independent way to achieve this goal. The API makes it easy to store
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and retrieve most of the basic data types used in Qt (such as basic
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C++ types, strings, lists, colors, etc). The class uses the registry
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on the Windows platform and traditional resource files on Unix.
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Creating and controlling other processes
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QProcess is a class that allows you to start other programs from
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within a Qt application in a platform independent manner. It gives you
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full control over the started program, for example you can redirect
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the input and output of console applications.
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Accessibility (not part of the beta1 release)
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Accessibility means making software usable and accessible to a wide
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range of users, including those with disabilities. In Qt 3.0, most
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widgets provide accessibility information for assistive tools that can
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be used by a wide range of disabled users. Qt standard widgets like
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buttons or range controls are fully supported. Support for complex
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widgets, like e.g. QListView, is in development. Existing applications
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that make use of standard widgets will become accessible just by using
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Qt 3.0.
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Qt uses the Active Accessibility infrastructure on Windows, and needs
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the MSAA SDK, which is part of most platform SDKs. With improving
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standardization of accessibility on other platforms, Qt will support
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assistive technologies on other systems, too.
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The accessibility API in Qt is not yet stable, which is why we decided
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not to make it a part of the beta1 release.
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XML Improvements
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The XML framework introduced in Qt 2.2 has been vastly improved. Qt
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2.2 already supported level 1 of the Document Object Model (DOM), a
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W3C standard for accessing and modifying XML documents. Qt 3.0 has
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added support for DOM Level 2 and XML namespaces.
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The XML parser has been extended to allow incremental parsing of XML
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documents. This allows you to start parsing the document directly
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after the first parts of the data have arrived, and to continue
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whenever new data is available. This is especially useful if the XML
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document is read from a slow source, e.g. over the network, as it
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allows the application to start working on the data at a very early
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stage.
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SVG support
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SVG is a W3C standard for "Scalable Vector Graphics". Qt 3.0's SVG
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support means that QPicture can optionally generate and import static
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SVG documents. All the SVG features that have an equivalent in
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QPainter are supported.
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Multihead support
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Many professional applications, such as DTP and CAD software, are able
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to display data on two or more monitors. In Qt 3.0 the QDesktopWidget
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class provides the application with runtime information about the
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number and geometry of the desktops on the different monitors and such
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allows applications to efficiently use a multi-monitor setup.
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The virtual desktop of Windows 98 and 2000 is supported, as well as
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the traditional multi-screen and the newer Xinerama multihead setups
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on X11.
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X11 specific enhancements
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Qt 3.0 now complies with the NET WM Specification, recently adopted
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by KDE 2.0. This allows easy integration and proper execution with
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desktop environments that support the NET WM specification.
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The font handling on X11 has undergone major changes. QFont no longer
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has a one-to-one relation with window system fonts. QFont is now a
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logical font that can load multiple window system fonts to simplify
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Unicode text display. This completely removes the burden of
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changing/setting fonts for a specific locale/language from the
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programmer. For end-users, any font can be used in any locale. For
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example, a user in Norway will be able to see Korean text without
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having to set their locale to Korean.
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Qt 3.0 also supports the new render extension recently added to
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XFree86. This adds support for anti aliased text and pixmaps with
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alpha channel (semi transparency) on the systems that support the
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rendering extension (at the moment XFree 4.0.3 and later).
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Printing
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Printing support has been enhanced on all platforms. The QPrinter
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class now supports setting a virtual resolution for the painting
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process. This makes WYSIWYG printing trivial, and also allows you to
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take full advantage of the high resolution of a printer when painting
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on it.
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The postscript driver built into Qt and used on Unix has been greatly
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enhanced. It supports the embedding of true/open type and type1 fonts
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into the document, and can correctly handle and display Unicode.
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Support for fonts built into the printer has been enhanced and Qt now
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knows about the most common printer fonts used for Asian languages.
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QHttp
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This class provides a simple interface for HTTP downloads and uploads.
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Compatibility with the Standard Template Library (STL)
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Support for the C++ Standard Template Library has been added to the Qt
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Template Library (QTL). The QTL classes now contain appropriate copy
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constructors and typedefs so that they can be freely mixed with other
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STL containers and algorithms. In addition, new member functions have
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been added to QTL template classes which correspond to STL-style
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naming conventions (e.g., push_back()).
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Qt Designer
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Qt Designer was a pure dialog editor in Qt 2.2 but has now been
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extended to provide the full functionality of a GUI design tool.
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This includes the ability to lay out main windows with menus and
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toolbars. Actions can be edited within Qt Designer and then plugged
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into toolbars and menu bars via drag and drop. Splitters can now be
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used in a way similar to layouts to group widgets horizontally or
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vertically.
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In Qt 2.2, many of the dialogs created by Qt Designer had to be
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subclassed to implement functionality beyond the predefined signal and
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slot connections. Whilst the subclassing approach is still fully supported,
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Qt Designer now offers an alternative: a plugin for editing
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slots. The editor offers features such as syntax highlighting,
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completion, parentheses matching and incremental search.
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The functionality of Qt Designer can now be extended via plugins.
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Using Qt Designer's interface or by implementing one of the provided
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interfaces in a plugin, a two way communication between plugin and Qt
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Designer can be established. This functionality is used to implement
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plugins for custom widgets, so that they can be used as real widgets
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inside the designer.
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Basic support for project management has been added. This allows you
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to read and edit *.pro files, add and remove files to/from the project
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and do some global operations on the project. You can now open the
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project file and have one-click access to all the *.ui forms in the
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project.
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In addition to generating code via uic, Qt Designer now supports the
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dynamic creation of widgets directly from XML user interface
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description files (*.ui files) at runtime. This eliminates the need of
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recompiling your application when the GUI changes, and could be used
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to enable your customers to do their own customizations. Technically,
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the feature is provided by a new class, QWidgetFactory in the
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QResource library.
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Qt Linguist
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Qt Linguist is a GUI utility to support translating the user-visible
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text in applications written with Qt. It comes with two command-line
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tools: lupdate and lrelease.
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Translation of a Qt application is a three-step process:
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1) Run lupdate to extract user-visible text from the C++ source
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code of the Qt application, resulting in a translation source file
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(a *.ts file).
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2) Provide translations for the source texts in the *.ts file using
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Qt Linguist.
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3) Run lrelease to obtain a light-weight message file (a *.qm file)
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from the *.ts file, which provides very fast lookup for released
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applications.
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Qt Linguist is a tool suitable for use by translators. Each
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user-visible (source) text is characterized by the text itself, a
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context (usually the name of the C++ class containing the text), and
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an optional comment to help the translator. The C++ class name will
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usually be the name of the relevant dialog, and the comment will often
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contain instructions that describe how to navigate to the relevant
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dialog.
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You can create phrase books for Qt Linguist to provide common
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translations to help ensure consistency and to speed up the
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translation process. Whenever a translator navigates to a new text to
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translate, Qt Linguist uses an intelligent algorithm to provide a list
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of possible translations: the list is composed of relevant text from
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any open phrase books and also from identical or similar text that has
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already been translated.
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Once a translation is complete it can be marked as "done"; such
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translations are included in the *.qm file. Text that has not been
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"done" is included in the *.qm file in its original form. Although Qt
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Linguist is a GUI application with dock windows and mouse control,
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toolbars, etc., it has a full set of keyboard shortcuts to make
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translation as fast and efficient as possible.
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When the Qt application that you're developing evolves (e.g. from
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version 1.0 to version 1.1), the utility lupdate merges the source
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texts from the new version with the previous translation source file,
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reusing existing translations. In some typical cases, lupdate may
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suggest translations. These translations are marked as unfinished, so
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you can easily find and check them.
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Qt Assistant
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Due to the positive feedback we received about the help system built
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into Qt Designer, we decided to offer this part as a separate
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application called Qt Assistant. Qt Assistant can be used to browse
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the Qt class documentation as well as the manuals for Qt Designer and
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Qt Linguist. It offers index searching, a contents overview, bookmarks
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history and incremental search. Qt Assistant is used by both Qt
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Designer and Qt Linguist for browsing their help documentation.
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QMake
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To ease portability we now provide the qmake utility to replace tmake.
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QMake is a C++ version of tmake which offers additional functionallity
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that is difficult to reproduce in tmake. Qt uses qmake in its
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build system and we have released it as free software.
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Qt Functions
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QAction
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All new functions:
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void addedTo( QWidget *actionWidget, QWidget *container );
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void addedTo( int index, QPopupMenu *menu );
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QActionGroup
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New mode "uses drop down", where members are shown in a separate
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subwidget such as a combobox or a submenu (enable with
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setUsesDropDown(TRUE) )
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All new functions:
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void add(QAction*);
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void addSeparator();
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void addedTo( QWidget *actionWidget, QWidget *container, QAction *a );
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void addedTo( int index, QPopupMenu *menu, QAction *a );
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void setUsesDropDown( bool enable );
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bool usesDropDown() const;
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QApplication
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Added the setStyle(const QString&) overload that takes the name of the
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style as its argument. This loads a style plugin via a QStyleFactory.
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desktop() now returns a QDesktopWidget that provides access to
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multi-head information. Prior to 3.0, it returned a normal QWidget.
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New functions to define the library search path for plugins
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(setLibraryPaths, ...).
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New functions to define reverse layout for bidirectional languages
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(setReverseLayout, ...).
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All new functions:
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bool hasPendingEvents()
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void setLibraryPaths(const QStringList &);
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QStringList libraryPaths();
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void addLibraryPath(const QString &);
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void removeLibraryPath(const QString &);
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void setReverseLayout( bool b );
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bool reverseLayout();
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int horizontalAlignment( int align );
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QClipboard
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On systems that support it, for example X11, QClipboard now
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differentiates between the primary selection and the data in the clipboard.
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All new functions:
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bool supportsSelection() const;
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bool ownsClipboard() const;
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void setSelectionMode(bool enable);
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bool selectionModeEnabled() const;
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New signals:
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void selectionChanged()
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QCursor
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Now inherits Qt namespace. Enum values like ArrowCursor,
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UpArrowCursor, CrossCursor etc. are now part of that namespace.
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QDataStream
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Added missing operators for Q_LONG and Q_ULONG
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QDateTime / QDate / QTime
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More sophisticated toString() function that takes a DateFormat, where
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DateFormat can be either TextDate (the default), ISODate (ISO 8601) or
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LocalDate (locale dependent).
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All new functions:
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QDate addMonths( int months ) const;
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QDate addYears( int years ) const;
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QDate fromString( const QString& s, Qt::DateFormat f = Qt::TextDate );
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static QString shortMonthName( int month );
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static QString longMonthName( int month );
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static QString shortDayName( int weekday );
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static QString longDayName( int weekday );
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static void setShortMonthNames( const QStringList& names );
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static void setLongMonthNames( const QStringList& names );
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static void setShortDayNames( const QStringList& names );
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static void setLongDayNames( const QStringList& names );
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QDialog
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Merged with QSemiModal. Calling show() on a modal dialog will return
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immediately, not enter a local event loop. Showing a modal dialog in
|
|
its own event loop is achieved using exec().
|
|
|
|
exec() is now a public slot.
|
|
|
|
Usability: For widgets supporting What's This help, QDialog
|
|
automatically offers a context menu containing a "What's This?" entry.
|
|
|
|
|
|
QEvent
|
|
------
|
|
|
|
Mouse events are now propagated up to the toplevel widget if no widget
|
|
accepts them and no event filter filters them out. In previous Qt
|
|
versions, only key events were propagated.
|
|
|
|
All events carry a flag 'spontaneous' to determine whether the even
|
|
came from the outside or was generated by code within the
|
|
applications. Previously, only show and hide events had this flag.
|
|
|
|
Enter/Leave event generation has been fixed. Previously, a widget
|
|
received a leave event when the mouse pointer entered one of its
|
|
children. This was both unnatural and contradictive to the
|
|
documentation.
|
|
|
|
QWheelevent now carries an orientation to differentiate between
|
|
horizontal and vertical wheels.
|
|
|
|
QFocusEvent: new reason 'Backtab' (previously only 'Tab' was
|
|
available). This makes it possible to discover from what direction on
|
|
the tab-focus chain the widget was entered.
|
|
|
|
New events: QContextMenuEvent, QIMEvent
|
|
|
|
|
|
QFile
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
Ported from int to Q_LONG to prepare for large file sizes on 64 bit
|
|
systems.
|
|
|
|
Filter handling made more flexible.
|
|
|
|
|
|
QFileDialog
|
|
-----------
|
|
|
|
All new Functions:
|
|
void setSelectedFilter( const QString& );
|
|
void setSelectedFilter( int );
|
|
New signals:
|
|
void filesSelected( const QStringList& );
|
|
void filterSelected( const QString& );
|
|
|
|
If you try to specify an invalid file when using getOpenFileName(s), an error message
|
|
will appear and the file will not be accepted. In 2.x, this function behaved differently
|
|
because users were using getOpenFileName(s) as a Save File Dialog; you should use
|
|
getSaveFileName() when you require a Save File Dialog.
|
|
|
|
|
|
QCanvas Module
|
|
--------------
|
|
|
|
New classes:
|
|
QCanvasSpline - a multi-bezier spline
|
|
|
|
QCanvasItemList
|
|
void update();
|
|
|
|
QCanvas:
|
|
QRect rect() const;
|
|
void setUnchanged( const QRect& area );
|
|
void drawArea(const QRect&, QPainter* p, bool double_buffer);
|
|
void drawViewArea( QCanvasView* view, QPainter* p, const QRect& r, bool dbuf );
|
|
QRect changeBounds(const QRect& inarea);
|
|
|
|
QCanvasView:
|
|
const QWMatrix &worldMatrix() const;
|
|
const QWMatrix &inverseWorldMatrix() const;
|
|
void setWorldMatrix( const QWMatrix & );
|
|
QCanvasSprite:
|
|
int leftEdge() const;
|
|
int topEdge() const;
|
|
int rightEdge() const;
|
|
int bottomEdge() const;
|
|
int leftEdge(int nx) const;
|
|
int topEdge(int ny) const;
|
|
int rightEdge(int nx) const;
|
|
int bottomEdge(int ny) const;
|
|
|
|
QCanvasSprite can now be set to animate its frames without the need to
|
|
subclass.
|
|
|
|
|
|
QFont, QFontDatabase, QFontInfo, QFontMetrics
|
|
---------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
The QFont::CharSet enum has been removed and replaced with the
|
|
QFont::Script enum. With this change, a QFont is not associated with a
|
|
specific character set. Instead, QFont uses Unicode Scripts for
|
|
loading fonts. On platforms where most fonts do not use the Unicode
|
|
encoding (currently only X11), multiple locale and character-set
|
|
dependent fonts can be loaded for the individual Unicode Scripts.
|
|
|
|
Another new feature of QFont is a much more flexible substitution
|
|
mechanism. Each family can have a list of appropriate substitutes. The
|
|
font substitution feature allows you to specify a list of substitute
|
|
fonts. Substitute fonts are used when a font cannot be loaded, or if
|
|
the specified font doesn't have a particular character (X11 only).
|
|
|
|
For example (on X11), you select the font Lucida, which doesn't have
|
|
Korean characters. For Korean text, you want to use the Mincho font
|
|
family. By adding Mincho to the list, any Korean characters not found
|
|
in Lucida will be used from Mincho. Because the font substitutions are
|
|
lists, you can also select multiple families, such as Song Ti (for use
|
|
with Chinese text).
|
|
|
|
QFontInfo and QFontMetrics had small API changes related to the
|
|
disappearance of QFont::CharSet. In terms of functionality, the
|
|
behavior of these classes is unchanged.
|
|
|
|
QFontDatabase had several API cleanups related to the disappearance of
|
|
QFont::CharSet. Most QFontDatabase member functions take one less
|
|
argument, yet compatibility functions still exist to keep old source
|
|
code working.
|
|
|
|
Family and style names returned from QFontDatabase are now processed
|
|
and formatted in a way that is suitable for display to users. Family
|
|
and foundry names are capitalized and foundry names are enclosed in
|
|
square brackets after the family name. For example, the Helvetica
|
|
font family might have 3 different foundries: Adobe, Cronyx and
|
|
Phaisarn. In 2.x, QFontDatabase listed them like this:
|
|
|
|
adobe-helvetica
|
|
cronyx-helvetica
|
|
phaisarn-helvetica
|
|
|
|
Starting with 3.0, QFontDatabase lists them like this:
|
|
|
|
Helvetica [Adobe]
|
|
Helvetica [Cronyx]
|
|
Helvetica [Phaisarn]
|
|
|
|
|
|
QFrame
|
|
------
|
|
|
|
Two new frame shapes for more sophisticated style features:
|
|
MenuBarPanel and ToolBarPanel.
|
|
|
|
|
|
QGrid
|
|
-----
|
|
|
|
The member type
|
|
|
|
enum Direction { Horizontal, Vertical };
|
|
|
|
has been eliminated, as it is redundant: use Qt::Orientation instead.
|
|
Old code referring to QGrid::Horizontal or QGrid::Vertical will still
|
|
work, as QGrid counts Qt among its ancestors.
|
|
|
|
|
|
QGroupBox
|
|
---------
|
|
|
|
More functionality of the built-in layout is exposed:
|
|
|
|
int insideMargin() const;
|
|
int insideSpacing() const;
|
|
void setInsideMargin( int m );
|
|
void setInsideSpacing( int s );
|
|
|
|
|
|
QHeader
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
New property: bool stretching
|
|
|
|
New functions:
|
|
bool isStretchEnabled( int section );
|
|
void setStretchEnabled( bool b, int section );
|
|
|
|
|
|
QIconSet
|
|
--------
|
|
|
|
In addition to the mode - which can be either Normal, Disabled or
|
|
Active - QIconSet now supports different pixmaps for a state, i.e. On
|
|
or Off. The functions pixmap() and setPixmap() have been extended
|
|
accordingly.
|
|
|
|
The default constructor no longer initializes the iconset to
|
|
contain a null pixmap. QIconSet::isNull() returns TRUE for un-
|
|
initialized iconsets, and pixmap() still returns a null pixmap for
|
|
pixmaps that couldn't be generated.
|
|
|
|
|
|
QIconView
|
|
---------
|
|
|
|
Extended findItem() to support ComparisonFlags. Support for
|
|
soft-hyphens when doing word wrap.
|
|
|
|
New signal:
|
|
contextMenuRequested( QIconViewItem*, const QPoint& pos);
|
|
|
|
|
|
QIconViewItem
|
|
-------------
|
|
|
|
Added support for explicit rtti.
|
|
|
|
New function:
|
|
int rtti() const;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
QListBox
|
|
--------
|
|
|
|
Extended findItem() to support ComparisonFlags.
|
|
|
|
New signal:
|
|
void contextMenu( QListBoxItem *, const QPoint & );
|
|
|
|
|
|
QListBoxItem
|
|
------------
|
|
|
|
Added support for explicit rtti.
|
|
|
|
New function:
|
|
int rtti() const;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
QListView
|
|
---------
|
|
|
|
It was never really hard to implement drag and drop with QListView,
|
|
but since many applications demand this functionality today, we
|
|
decided to add it to the listview itself.
|
|
|
|
In addition, in-place editing and per-item tooltips have been added.
|
|
Extended findItem() to support ComparisonFlags
|
|
|
|
New properties:
|
|
bool showToolTips
|
|
ResizeMode resizeMode
|
|
|
|
New signals:
|
|
contextMenuRequested( QIconViewItem*, const QPoint& pos);
|
|
void dropped( QDropEvent *e );
|
|
void itemRenamed( QListViewItem *item, int col, const QString & );
|
|
void itemRenamed( QListViewItem *item, int col );
|
|
|
|
New functions:
|
|
void setResizeMode( ResizeMode m );
|
|
ResizeMode resizeMode() const;
|
|
QDragObject *dragObject();
|
|
void startDrag();
|
|
void startRename();
|
|
|
|
|
|
QListViewItem
|
|
-------------
|
|
|
|
Added support for explicit rtti.
|
|
|
|
New functions:
|
|
void setDragEnabled( bool allow );
|
|
void setDropEnabled( bool allow );
|
|
bool dragEnabled() const;
|
|
bool dropEnabled() const;
|
|
bool acceptDrop( const QMimeSource *mime ) const;
|
|
void setVisible( bool b );
|
|
bool isVisible() const;
|
|
void setRenameEnabled( int col, bool b );
|
|
bool renameEnabled( int col ) const;
|
|
void startRename( int col );
|
|
void setEnabled( bool b );
|
|
bool isEnabled() const;
|
|
int rtti() const;
|
|
|
|
void dropped( QDropEvent *e );
|
|
void dragEntered();
|
|
void dragLeft();
|
|
void okRename( int col );
|
|
void cancelRename( int col );
|
|
|
|
|
|
QLabel
|
|
------
|
|
|
|
In addition to text, rich text, pixmaps and movies, QLabel can now
|
|
display QPicture vector graphics.
|
|
|
|
New functions:
|
|
|
|
QPicture *picture() const;
|
|
void setPicture( const QPicture & );
|
|
|
|
|
|
QLineEdit
|
|
---------
|
|
|
|
New property: bool dragEnabled
|
|
|
|
New signal:
|
|
contextMenuRequested( QIconViewItem*, const QPoint& pos);
|
|
|
|
New functions:
|
|
void cursorForward( bool mark, int steps = 1 );
|
|
void cursorBackward( bool mark, int steps = 1 );
|
|
void cursorWordForward( bool mark );
|
|
void cursorWordBackward( bool mark );
|
|
bool dragEnabled();
|
|
void setDragEnabled( bool b );
|
|
|
|
|
|
QMainWindow
|
|
-----------
|
|
|
|
Added a dock window architecture. Previous versions of QMainWindow
|
|
could only deal with toolbars, now they handle generalized dock
|
|
windows. QToolBar inherits QDockWindow.
|
|
|
|
|
|
New property:
|
|
bool dockWindowsMovable;
|
|
|
|
New signals:
|
|
void dockWindowPositionChanged( QDockWindow * );
|
|
|
|
New functions:
|
|
void setDockEnabled( Dock dock, bool enable );
|
|
bool isDockEnabled( Dock dock ) const;
|
|
bool isDockEnabled( QDockArea *area ) const;
|
|
void setDockEnabled( QDockWindow *tb, Dock dock, bool enable );
|
|
bool isDockEnabled( QDockWindow *tb, Dock dock ) const;
|
|
bool isDockEnabled( QDockWindow *tb, QDockArea *area ) const;
|
|
|
|
void addDockWindow( QDockWindow *, Dock = Top, bool newLine = FALSE );
|
|
void addDockWindow( QDockWindow *, const QString &label, Dock = Top, bool newLine = FALSE );
|
|
void moveDockWindow( QDockWindow *, Dock = Top );
|
|
void moveDockWindow( QDockWindow *, Dock, bool nl, int index, int extraOffset = -1 );
|
|
void removeDockWindow( QDockWindow * );
|
|
|
|
QDockArea *dockingArea( const QPoint &p );
|
|
QDockArea *leftDock() const;
|
|
QDockArea *rightDock() const;
|
|
QDockArea *topDock() const;
|
|
QDockArea *bottomDock() const;
|
|
|
|
bool isCustomizable() const;
|
|
bool appropriate( QDockWindow *dw ) const;
|
|
QPopupMenu *createDockWindowMenu( DockWindows dockWindows = AllDockWindows ) const;
|
|
|
|
bool showDockMenu( const QPoint &globalPos );
|
|
|
|
|
|
QMetaObject
|
|
-----------
|
|
|
|
###TODO
|
|
|
|
|
|
QMimeSourceFactory
|
|
------------------
|
|
|
|
New static functions:
|
|
QMimeSourceFactory* takeDefaultFactory();
|
|
static void addFactory( QMimeSourceFactory *f );
|
|
|
|
|
|
QNetworkProtocol
|
|
----------------
|
|
|
|
Spelling fix in Error::ErrListChildren enum.
|
|
|
|
|
|
QRegExp
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
QRegExp now has a more complete regular expression engine similar to
|
|
Perl's, with full Unicode and backreference support.
|
|
|
|
New functions:
|
|
bool minimal() const;
|
|
void setMinimal( bool minimal );
|
|
bool exactMatch( const QString& str );
|
|
bool exactMatch( const QString& str ) const;
|
|
int search( const QString& str, int start = 0 );
|
|
int search( const QString& str, int start = 0 ) const;
|
|
int searchRev( const QString& str, int start = -1 );
|
|
int searchRev( const QString& str, int start = -1 ) const;
|
|
int matchedLength();
|
|
QStringList capturedTexts();
|
|
QString cap( int nth = 0 );
|
|
int pos( int nth = 0 );
|
|
|
|
|
|
QSessionManager
|
|
---------------
|
|
|
|
Renamed the misnamed setProperty() overloads to setManagerProperty()
|
|
to resolve the conflict with the now virtual QObject::setProperty().
|
|
|
|
|
|
QString
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
New functions:
|
|
bool endsWith( const QString & );
|
|
int similarityWith( const QString & );
|
|
|
|
### TODO
|
|
|
|
QStyle
|
|
------
|
|
|
|
### TODO
|
|
|
|
QTabBar
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
The extended QTabWidget support in Qt Designer made two more
|
|
functions handy to have:
|
|
QTab * tabAt( int ) const;
|
|
int indexOf( int ) const;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
QToolBar
|
|
--------
|
|
|
|
Inherits QDockWindow now, previously only QWidget.
|
|
|
|
|
|
QToolButton
|
|
-----------
|
|
|
|
New property:
|
|
QIconSet iconSet
|
|
|
|
New functions:
|
|
QIconSet iconSet() const;
|
|
virtual void setIconSet( const QIconSet & );
|
|
|
|
QWidget
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
New functions:
|
|
|
|
const QColor & eraseColor() const;
|
|
virtual void setEraseColor( const QColor & );
|
|
const QPixmap * erasePixmap() const;
|
|
virtual void setErasePixmap( const QPixmap & );
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
QWizard
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
New property: QString titleFont
|
|
|
|
New functions:
|
|
QFont titleFont() const;
|
|
void setTitleFont( const QFont & );
|
|
int indexOf( QWidget* ) const;
|
|
|
|
|
|
QWMatrix
|
|
--------
|
|
|
|
New function:
|
|
bool isIdentity() const;
|
|
|
|
|
|
QGL Module
|
|
----------
|
|
|
|
QGLWidget
|
|
New functions:
|
|
QGLFormat requestedFormat() const;
|
|
QImage grabFrameBuffer( bool withAlpha = FALSE );
|
|
|
|
|
|
QWorkspace Module
|
|
-----------------
|
|
|
|
A new property scrollBarsEnabled makes it possible to add on-demand
|
|
scrollbars to the workspace. We define this property in Qt Designer to
|
|
make designing forms larger than the available space on the desktop
|
|
more comfortable.
|
|
|
|
New property:
|
|
bool scrollBarsEnabled
|
|
|
|
|
|
QXML Module
|
|
-----------
|
|
Many new functions have been added:
|
|
QDomImplementation
|
|
QDomDocumentType createDocumentType( const QString& qName, const QString& publicId, const QString& systemId );
|
|
QDomDocument createDocument( const QString& nsURI, const QString& qName, const QDomDocumentType& doctype );
|
|
QDomNode
|
|
QDomNode insertBefore( const QDomNode& newChild, const QDomNode& refChild );
|
|
QDomNode insertAfter( const QDomNode& newChild, const QDomNode& refChild );
|
|
QDomNode replaceChild( const QDomNode& newChild, const QDomNode& oldChild );
|
|
QDomNode removeChild( const QDomNode& oldChild );
|
|
QDomNode appendChild( const QDomNode& newChild );
|
|
bool hasChildNodes() const;
|
|
QDomNode cloneNode( bool deep = TRUE ) const;
|
|
void normalize();
|
|
bool isSupported( const QString& feature, const QString& version ) const;
|
|
QString namespaceURI() const;
|
|
QString localName() const;
|
|
bool hasAttributes() const;
|
|
QDomDocument
|
|
bool setContent( const QCString& text, bool namespaceProcessing=FALSE );
|
|
bool setContent( const QByteArray& text, bool namespaceProcessing=FALSE );
|
|
bool setContent( const QString& text, bool namespaceProcessing=FALSE );
|
|
bool setContent( QIODevice* dev, bool namespaceProcessing=FALSE );
|
|
QDomNamedNodeMap
|
|
QDomNode namedItemNS( const QString& nsURI, const QString& localName ) const;
|
|
QDomNode setNamedItemNS( const QDomNode& newNode );
|
|
QDomNode removeNamedItemNS( const QString& nsURI, const QString& localName );
|
|
|
|
QDomElement
|
|
QString attributeNS( const QString nsURI, const QString& localName, const QString& defValue ) const;
|
|
void setAttributeNS( const QString nsURI, const QString& qName, const QString& value );
|
|
void setAttributeNS( const QString nsURI, const QString& qName, int value );
|
|
void setAttributeNS( const QString nsURI, const QString& qName, uint value );
|
|
void setAttributeNS( const QString nsURI, const QString& qName, double value );
|
|
void removeAttributeNS( const QString& nsURI, const QString& localName );
|
|
QDomAttr attributeNodeNS( const QString& nsURI, const QString& localName );
|
|
QDomAttr setAttributeNodeNS( const QDomAttr& newAttr );
|
|
QDomNodeList elementsByTagNameNS( const QString& nsURI, const QString& localName ) const;
|
|
bool hasAttributeNS( const QString& nsURI, const QString& localName ) const;
|
|
|
|
|
|
QXmlAttributes
|
|
void clear();
|
|
void append( const QString &qName, const QString &uri, const QString &localPart, const QString &value );
|
|
|
|
QXmlInputSource:
|
|
void setData( const QByteArray& dat );
|
|
void fetchData();
|
|
QString data();
|
|
QChar next();
|
|
void reset();
|
|
QString fromRawData( const QByteArray &data, bool beginning = FALSE );
|
|
|
|
QXmlSimpleReader:
|
|
bool parse( const QXmlInputSource& input, bool incremental );
|
|
bool parseContinue();
|
|
|
|
QXmlEntityResolver:
|
|
bool startEntity( const QString& name );
|
|
bool endEntity( const QString& name );
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
New classes
|
|
-----------
|
|
|
|
QAquaStyle (only on MacOS X)
|
|
QCleanupHandler
|
|
QComponentFactory
|
|
QComponentFactoryInterface
|
|
QComponentServerInterface
|
|
QContextMenuEvent
|
|
QDesktopWidget
|
|
QDockArea
|
|
QDockWindow
|
|
QErrorMessage
|
|
QFeatureListInterface
|
|
QHttp [network]
|
|
QInterfaceListInterface
|
|
QInterfacePtr
|
|
QIMEvent
|
|
QLibrary
|
|
QLibraryInterface
|
|
QStyleFactory
|
|
QStyleInterface
|
|
QTextCodecInterface
|
|
QUnknownInterface
|
|
QUuid
|
|
QRegExpValidator
|
|
QTextEdit
|
|
|
|
|
|
Renamed Classes
|
|
---------------
|
|
|
|
QArray has been renamed QMemArray
|
|
QCollection has been renamed QPtrCollection
|
|
QList has been renamed QPtrList
|
|
QListIterator has been renamed QPtrListIterator
|
|
QQueue has been renamed QPtrQueue
|
|
QStack has been renamed QPtrStack
|
|
QVector has been renamed QPtrVector
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The include file names have changed accordingly (e.g., <qmemarray.h>).
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New Modules
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SQL
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QDataBrowser
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QDataTable
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QDataView
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QDateTimeEdit
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QEditFactory
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Obsolete classes
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QSemiModal, use QDialog instead.
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QMultiLineEdit, use QTextEdit instead.
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QTableView, use QScrollView or QTable instead.
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QAsyncIO, QDataSink, QDataSource, QDataPump and QIODeviceSource
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Obsolete functions
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QActionGroup::insert( QAction * ), use QActionGroup::add( QAction* ) instead.
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QApplication::setWinStyleHighlightColor( const QColor &c ), use setPalette() instead
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QApplication::winStyleHighlightColor(), use palette() instead
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QDir::encodedEntryList( int filterSpec, int sortSpec ), use QDir::entryList() instead
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QDir::encodedEntryList( const QString &nameFilter, int filterSpec, int sortSpec ), use QDir::entryList() instead
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QMainWindow::addToolBar( QDockWindow *, Dock = Top, bool newLine = FALSE );
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QMainWindow::addToolBar( QDockWindow *, const QString &label, Dock = Top, bool newLine = FALSE );
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QMainWindow::moveToolBar( QDockWindow *, Dock = Top );
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QMainWindow::moveToolBar( QDockWindow *, Dock, bool nl, int index, int extraOffset = -1 );
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QMainWindow::removeToolBar( QDockWindow * );
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QMainWindow::toolBarsMovable() const;
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QMainWindow::toolBars( Dock dock ) const;
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QMainWindow::lineUpToolBars( bool keepNewLines = FALSE );
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QRegExp::match( const QString& str, int index = 0, int *len = 0,
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bool indexIsStart = TRUE );
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QToolButton::setOnIconSet( const QIconSet & )
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QToolButton::setOffIconSet( const QIconSet & )
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QToolButton::onIconSet() const
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QToolButton::offIconSet() const
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QToolButton::setIconSet( const QIconSet & set, bool on )
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QToolButton::iconSet( bool on ) const
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QXmlInputSource::QXmlInputSource( QFile& file ), use QXmlInputSource( QIODevice *dev ) instead.
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QXmlInputSource::QXmlInputSource( QTextStream& stream ), use QXmlInputSource( QIODevice *dev ) instead.
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Removed functions:
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QWidget::setFontPropagation
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QWidget::setPalettePropagation
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QMenuBar::setActItem
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QMenuBar::setWindowsAltMode
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QCheckListItem::paintBranches
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QString::visual
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QString::basicDirection
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QRegExp::find( const QString& str, int index ) const; - has been renamed QRegExp::search()
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QFont::charSet() const, not needed anymore
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QFont::setCharSet( QFont::CharSet ), not needed anymore
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QPushButton::upButton(), not relevant anymore
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QPushButton::downButton(), not relevant anymore
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QSpinBox::upButton(), not relevant anymore
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QSpinBox::downButton(), not relevant anymore
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Removed preprocessor directives
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qcstring.h no longer contains the following defines:
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#define strlen qstrlen
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#define strcpy qstrcpy
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#define strcmp qstrcmp
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#define strncmp qstrncmp
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#define stricmp qstricmp
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#define strnicmp qstrnicmp
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These directives were meant to automagically replace calls to the
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above listed standard C functions with the equivalent Qt wrappers.
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The latter pre-check the input parameters for null pointers as those
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might cause crashes on some platforms.
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Although convenient, this trick turned out to sometimes conflict with
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third-party code, or, simply be nullified by standard system and
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library headers depending on version and include order.
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The name of some debugging macro variables has been changed.
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DEBUG becomes QT_DEBUG
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NO_DEBUG becomes QT_NO_DEBUG
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NO_CHECK becomes QT_NO_CHECK
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CHECK_STATE becomes QT_CHECK_STATE
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CHECK_RANGE becomes QT_CHECK_RANGE
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CHECK_NULL becomes QT_CHECK_NULL
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CHECK_MATH becomes QT_CHECK_MATH
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The name of some other debugging macro functions has also been changed
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but source compatibility should not be affected if the macro variable
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QT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE is not defined:
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ASSERT becomes Q_ASSERT
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CHECK_PTR becomes Q_CHECK_PTR
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For the record these undocumented macro variables that are not part of
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the API have been changed:
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_OS_*_ becomes Q_OS_*
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_WS_*_ becomes Q_WS_*
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_CC_*_ becomes Q_CC_*
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[Qt 3.0]
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