New to QT5
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Hi everyone, I am new to these forums and to QT5 and need some general pointers, first I have been coding in gtk2 for a number of years and have a few app released, but as I am not happy with gtk3 I would like to add QT support to these apps, I have already done this one:
"GtkSu":http://gtk-apps.org/content/show.php?content=158974
which build and run fine under both gtk2 and QT5, but is actually quite simple, I need to get on to more complex apps, so finally my questions!Can someone point me to the QT5 equivalent of gtksourceview, which as the name suggests is a a 3rd party source code highlighter etc.
Some general text editor examples, though I believe there is simple example of this in the QT5 source code.
A good site for assorted examples, of dialogs, menus, toolbars etc.
Finally would it be best to use conditional compilation or to split the projects into gtk and QT apps?
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Hi, and welcome to the Qt Dev Net! I hope you find your stay an enjoyable one.
[quote author="Keith Hedger" date="1409657750"]Can someone point me to the QT5 equivalent of gtksourceview, which as the name suggests is a a 3rd party source code highlighter etc.
[/quote]I'm not familiar with gtksourceview, but I believe "QSyntaxHighlighter":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/implicit-sharing.html is a good place to start.[quote author="Keith Hedger" date="1409657750"]Some general text editor examples, though I believe there is simple example of this in the QT5 source code.
A good site for assorted examples, of dialogs, menus, toolbars etc.[/quote]The Qt libraries come bundled with lots of examples. After you install Qt 5, open Qt Creator and go to Welcome -> Examples. Search there.
Alternatively, browse through http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/all-examples.html or simply use your favourite search engine to search for "Qt text editor".
[quote author="Keith Hedger" date="1409657750"]Finally would it be best to use conditional compilation or to split the projects into gtk and QT apps?[/quote]That really depends on your project architecture, but my gut feeling is to have separate projects. Conditional compilation tends to get messy quickly.
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Thanks for the quick reply and the tips I will have a look and report back
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Well I translated another of my apps, a GUI for aspell ( surprisingly few of these about ). I used conditional compilation for Gtk/Qt but it was getting complicated so I will probably switch to using separate projects for anything more complex, anyway if anyone's interested its here:
http://qt-apps.org/content/show.php?content=167038
