Use of Qt documentation

tobias.hunger

Volker: You are aware that you can detach the help mode in Qt Creator? It is in Tools->Options->Help, set "On context help" to external and you have a separate help window.

goetz

[quote author="Tobias Hunger" date="1294764753"]Volker: You are aware that you can detach the help mode in Qt Creator? It is in Tools->Options->Help, set "On context help" to external and you have a separate help window.[/quote]

No, I wasn't. Thanks Tobias! Nonetheless I will continue using Assistant, as it has nice support for multiple tabs :-)

andre

Tobias: true, that's possible, but personally I like Qt Assistant's tabs more than I like QtCreators way of dealing with multiple pages and the way you need two mouseclicks to switch from the index to the contents or the bookmarks.

tobias.hunger

I just use Qt Creaotr with the default help setup and use F1 or "Ctrl-K" to open the locator and then type "? QSomething" to search what I need to know. No mouse required at all:-)

BlackDante

I'm too almost always use Qt Assistant :) and I like reading books, but only a paper books, I don't like books in pdf unlees pdf is opened in another monitor and I don't have to switch windows to reading and coding :)

DenisKormalev

For most part of time I'm using Assistant (as individual app or inside QtCreator). But sometimes while I'm google for some complicated problem I find myself somewhere inside online docs :)

ucomesdag

Never used Assistant, I always used the online docs until Qt Creator :)

Wolf P.

When working in Creator, I use the offline version. When googling the online docs.

BTW: If there were links to the online version embedded in the offline docs, this would help much.

goetz

Hm, I can't imagine how this could work properly. All the links in Assistant are for internal content...

Wolf P.

The link shoud explicitely marked as online, something "linkable URL to the online version of this page" - from my point of view, the offline docs are equivalent to the online ones, aren't they?

Zlatomir

Well i use mostly the online documentation, but i don't know how the build-in search works because i use google to search topics and then the documentation is pretty well organized (has links to inherited_by-inherits classes and other goodies)

Also another reason i use google to search for online documentation/content is that it finds the documentation site and, in most of the cases, it also can find discussions on QtDN or "qtcentre":http://www.qtcentre.org (i learned a lot about Qt from there).

Panke

I'm using the help in Qt Creator. When Konqueror is open and I want to know something about a particular class, qt <classname-here> does it as well.

sfilippidis

I mainly use the online documentation.

DenisKormalev

Oh, forgot also about krunner in kde. It is helpful sometimes.

parancibia

My first option is F1 on Qt Creator, for everything else Qt Assistant

? Offline

Assistant +1
Forum +1
Book -1 (proven sleep catalyst)

qtrahul

I always read the help section of Qt Creator.(Main INDEX style is best).

When I need more content of particular topic at that time I prefer online documents.

talmage

I use the help in QtCreator. When I search for help, I usually search online. By reading this thread just now, I learned that I can launch QtCreator's Offline Help in a separate window and how to search it.

I wish I had printouts for QtMobility. I wish I had more examples, too. For Qt, I have Blanchette & Summerfeld's C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4.

talmage

Also, I wish I could print documentation from QtCreator. I'm installing Assistant just to print QtMobility.

ryadav

I like the offline docs (keep up the great work) and I use it through Qt Creator