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

[Guest]

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