Changeset 846 for trunk/doc/src/qt4-intro.qdoc

Timestamp:

May 5, 2011, 5:36:53 AM (14 years ago)

Author:

Dmitry A. Kuminov

Message:

trunk: Merged in qt 4.7.2 sources from branches/vendor/nokia/qt.

Location:

trunk

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• . (modified) (1 prop)
• doc/src/qt4-intro.qdoc (modified) (15 diffs)

trunk/doc/src/qt4-intro.qdoc

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 /****************************************************************************
 **
-** Copyright (C) 2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
+** Copyright (C) 201 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
 ** All rights reserved.
 ** Contact: Nokia Corporation ([email protected])
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 ** This file is part of the documentation of the Qt Toolkit.
 **
-** $QT_BEGIN_LICENSE:LGPL$
+** $QT_BEGIN_LICENSE:L$
 ** Commercial Usage
 ** Licensees holding valid Qt Commercial licenses may use this file in
 ** accordance with the Qt Commercial License Agreement provided with the
-** Software or, alternatively, in accordance with the terms contained in
-** a written agreement between you and Nokia.
+** Software or, alternatively, in accordance with the terms contained in
+** written agreement between you and Nokia.
 **
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+** GNU Free Documentation License
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     3 compatibility support.
 
-    \tableofcontents
-
     \section1 New Technologies in Qt 4
 
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     \section1 Recent Additions to Qt 4
 
-    The following features have been added to Qt since the first release of Qt 4:
+    The following features have been added to Qt since the first release of Qt 4.
+
+    In Qt 4.7:
+    \list
+    \o Declarative UI Development with \l{Qt Quick}, technologies for creating
+       fluid, dynamic user interfaces.
+    \o Support for \l{Bearer Management}{network bearer management}, enabling
+       features such as control over network interfaces and support for roaming
+       between networks.
+    \o Feature and performance improvements in QtWebKit, including a new tiled
+       backing store, control over scroll bars used in frames and framesets,
+       accelerated compositing and \l{The QtWebKit Bridge}{support for hybrid
+       development}.
+    \o General performance improvements, including the use of "alien widgets"
+       on Mac OS X, the QStaticText class for optimized text rendering, a new
+       \l{QPainter::drawPixmapFragments()}{API for rendering pixmap fragments}
+       and an updated version of the JavaScriptCore engine for the QtScript
+       module with improved performance.
+    \endlist
+
+    In Qt 4.6:
+    \list
+    \o Support for \l{The Symbian platform - Introduction to Qt}{the Symbian Platform}
+       as a mainstream Qt platform, with integration into the S60 framework.
+    \o The \l{The Animation Framework}{animation framework} allows animations to be
+       created using both widgets and graphics items.
+    \o The \l{The State Machine Framework}{state machine framework} provides a robust
+       state chart implementation based on Harel statecharts and SCXML.
+    \o Support for \l{QTouchEvent}{touch input} and \l{Gestures Programming}{gestures}
+       enable developers to create intuitive user interfaces for touch-based devices.
+    \o A \l{QWebElement}{DOM access API} for QtWebKit provides a cleaner and safer way
+       to access elements and structures of Web pages without the use of JavaScript.
+    \o A collection of performance improvements, covering QGraphicsView, QPixmapCache,
+       QNetworkAccessManager, QContiguousCache class, hardware-accelerated rendering
+       support through \l{OpenVG Rendering in Qt}{OpenVG}, and the removal of Win9x
+       support.
+    \o A collection of \l{QGraphicsEffect}{graphics effects} make it easy to apply
+       and simple effects to graphics items and combine them to produce more complex
+       effects.
+    \o Support for XML schema validation in the QtXmlPatterns module covering
+       large parts of version 1.0 of the specification.
+    \o Qt3D enablers, including math primitives for \l{QMatrix4x4}{matrix multiplication},
+       \l{QVector3D}{vectors}, \l{QQuaternion}{quaternions} (client-side), and an API
+       for \l{QGLShader}{vertex and fragment shaders}, GLSL/ES.
+    \o \l{QtMultimedia Module}{Multimedia services} providing low-level access to the
+       system's audio system.
+    \endlist
 
     In Qt 4.5:
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     In Qt 4.4:
     \list
-    \o \l{QtWebkit Module}{Qt WebKit integration}, making it possible for developers
+    \o \l{}{Qt WebKit integration}, making it possible for developers
     to use a fully-featured Web browser to display documents and access online
     services.
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     \o New \l{Proxy Models}{proxy models} to enable view-specific sorting and
        filtering of data displayed using item views.
-    \o Support for \l{Installing Qt on Mac OS X}{universal binaries} on Mac OS X.
+    \o Support for \l{Installing Qt  Mac OS X}{universal binaries} on Mac OS X.
     \o Additional features for developers using \l{QtOpenGL}{OpenGL}, such as
     support for pixel and sample buffers.
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     \row    \o \l{QAxContainer} \o ActiveQt client extension
     \row    \o \l{QAxServer}    \o ActiveQt server extension
-    \row    \o \l{QtAssistant}  \o Classes for launching Qt Assistant
+    \row    \o \l{Qt
     \row    \o \l{QtDesigner}   \o Classes for extending and embedding Qt Designer
-    \row    \o \l{QtUiTools}       \o Classes for dynamic GUI generation
+    \row    \o \l{QtUiTools}    \o Classes for dynamic GUI generation
     \row    \o \l{QtTest}       \o Tool classes for unit testing
     \endtable
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     \page qt4-6-intro.html
     \title What's New in Qt 4.6
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     included in the \c changes-4.6.0 file
     \l{http://qt.nokia.com/developer/changes/changes-4.6.0}{available
-    online}. A \l{Known Issues in 4.6.3}{list of known issues}
+    online}. A \l{Known Issues in 4.}{list of known issues}
     for this release is also available.
 
     Changes between this release and the previous release are provided
-    in the \c{changes-4.6.3} file (also
-    \l{http://qt.nokia.com/developer/changes/changes-4.6.3}{available online}).
+    in the \c{changes-4.} file (also
+    \l{http://qt.nokia.com/developer/changes/changes-4.}{available online}).
 \endomit
 
     A list of other Qt 4 features can be found on the \bold{\l{What's
     New in Qt 4}} page.
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-    \bold{Highlights}
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-    \tableofcontents
 
     \section1 Support for Symbian
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     See \l{The State Machine Framework} documentation for more information.
 
-    \section1 Multi-Touch and Gestures
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-    Support for multi-touch input enables users to interact with many
+    \section1 Touch and Gestures
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+    Support for touch input enables users to interact with many
     parts of a user interface at the same time, and provides the basis
     for gestures. Additional infrastructure for gesture recognition
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         \o Allows users to interact with applications in more natural ways.
         \o Simplifies finger-based interaction with UI components.
-        \o Combines support for common basic gestures and multi-touch gestures
+        \o Combines support for common basic gestures and touch gestures
            in a single general framework.
         \o Enables extensibility by design.
     \endlist
 
-    See the QTouchEvent class documentation for more information on multi-touch
+    See the QTouchEvent class documentation for more information on touch
     input and QGestureEvent for gestures.
 
-    \section1 DOM access API
+    \section1 DOM ccess API
 
     Web pages and XML both have very complex document object models.
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     \list
         \o Rewritten the QGraphicsView rendering algorithm.
-        \o Made QPixmapCache support efficient Key datastructure.
+        \o Made QPixmapCache support efficient Key datastructure.
         \o Reduced overhead in QNetworkAccessManager.
         \o Added the QContiguousCache class, which provides efficient caching of
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     information.
 
-    \section1 Qt3D enablers
+    \section1 Qt3D nablers
 
     As more of Qt, and more of the applications built on Qt go 3D,
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     The main features of the Qt3D enablers are currently: Math
     primitives for matrix multiplication, vectors, quaternions
-    (client-side), and API for vertex and fragment shaders, GLSL/ES.
+    (client-side), and API for vertex and fragment shaders, GLSL/ES.
     Future research will, among other things include stencils,
     scissors, vertex buffers and arrays, texture manipulation, and
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     in the \c changes-4.5.0 file
     \l{http://qt.nokia.com/developer/changes/changes-4.5.0}{available online}.
-    A \l{Known Issues in 4.6.3}{list of known issues} for this release is also
+    A \l{Known Issues in 4.}{list of known issues} for this release is also
     available.
 
     Changes between this release and the previous release are provided
-    in the \c{changes-4.6.3} file (also
-    \l{http://qt.nokia.com/developer/changes/changes-4.6.3}{available online}).
+    in the \c{changes-4.} file (also
+    \l{http://qt.nokia.com/developer/changes/changes-4.}{available online}).
 
     A list of other Qt 4 features can be found on the
     \bold{\l{What's New in Qt 4}} page.
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-    \bold{Highlights}
-
-    \tableofcontents
 
     \section1 Qt WebKit Integration