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| 42 | /*!
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| 43 | \page qt4-designer.html
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| 44 |
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| 45 | \title The New Qt Designer
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| 46 |
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| 47 | \contentspage {What's New in Qt 4}{Home}
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| 48 | \previouspage The Qt 4 Main Window Classes
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| 49 | \nextpage Cross-Platform Accessibility Support in Qt 4
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| 50 |
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| 51 | \QD has been completely re-written based on our experience with
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| 52 | the previous versions of the product for Qt 3. One of the main new
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| 53 | ideas behind this new version is to release the application as a
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| 54 | collection of interchangeable components that include the property
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| 55 | editor, the widget box, and other useful tools for creating
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| 56 | graphical user interfaces with Qt. These components can either be
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| 57 | used together in the \QD application, or independently integrated
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| 58 | into other systems. As a result, certain features such as the
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| 59 | project editor and code editor have been removed from the version
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| 60 | included with this release.
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| 61 |
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| 62 | The current version of \QD is near feature complete and can be used for
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| 63 | many tasks. However, it is still under continuous development. This
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| 64 | document will explain what is already in place.
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| 65 |
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| 66 | See also the \l{Qt Designer Manual}.
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| 67 |
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| 68 | \tableofcontents
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| 69 |
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| 70 | \section1 The Current State of Qt Designer
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| 71 |
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| 72 | When used as a standalone application, \QD includes a number of
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| 73 | components that work together to provide a flexible GUI design
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| 74 | tool. Widgets and dialog windows can be composed using a
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| 75 | form-based interface that fully supports drag and drop, clipboard
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| 76 | operations, and an undo/redo stack.
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| 77 |
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| 78 | This version of \QD introduces a number of editing modes to make
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| 79 | different types of editing more natural. Each editing mode
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| 80 | displays the form in an appropriate way for that mode, and
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| 81 | provides a specialized user interface for manipulating its
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| 82 | contents. The current editing modes are Widget Editing, Signals
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| 83 | and Slots Editing, Buddy Editing, and Tab Order Editing.
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| 84 |
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| 85 | \section2 User Interface Features
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| 86 |
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| 87 | \table
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| 88 | \row \i \inlineimage designer-main-window.png
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| 89 | \i \bold{Widget Box}
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| 90 |
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| 91 | The Widget Box displays a categorized list of widgets and other
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| 92 | objects that can be placed on a form using drag and drop.
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| 93 |
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| 94 | When \QD is in multi-window mode, the window containing the Widget
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