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Qt Designer 2 and KDevelop 2 for beginners

Version 0.3.1
Last updated: 26 February 2001

Anne-Marie Mahfouf

a-m.mahfouf@lineone.net

Qt is the toolkit used by the KDE project for developing graphical applications. This paper shows a beginner how to create a simple application using Qt Designer and KDevelop-1.4. This tutorial is based on an article written by Jono Bacon for Linux Magazine UK issue3 and the application used there is from his article. Thank you Jono.

I would also like to thank Daniel Molkentin for the time he spent to explain patiently how things should work! I am really grateful he helped me improving this tutorial. Thanks a lot, Daniel!

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Requirements
2.1. How to get Qt Designer
2.2. How to get KDevelop
2.2.1. Stable
2.2.2. Snapshot from CVS
2.3. Lexicon
3. Creating the application
3.1. Starting the project
3.1.1. Creating the framework with KDevelop
3.1.2. Using QtDesigner
3.2. Designing the program
3.3. Adding widgets
3.4. Getting spaced out
3.5. Signals and slots
3.6. Generating the source
4. In short
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