Confusion about the documentation

[DevinQT]

Hi,

I have here this very nice document in the documentation.

I thought this must be part of some awesome list I could look at that should be living in Qt "Qt GUI" page. But there I found nothing.

Also, a lot of the links in clicked there while searching, didn't event lead to a page right after "Qt GUI", but to the classes.

Now; where does this mysterious document live, and whereof is it a part?

Thank you. :)

[mrjj]

Hi
Lives where ?
You mean on file system or in what way ?

[DevinQT]

More in the structure of the documentation. Don't know about the filesystem, but this kind of reminds me of a filesystem, right?
:

[mrjj]

@DevinQT
Well often the docs are grouped around the module. in this case, the Qt GUI module.
So there is a list.
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtgui-module.html

but not sure it was that you were after.

[DevinQT]

@mrjj

I don't see the document there called Rich Text Processing (which has a lot of 'next' buttons and apparently is a very long 'tutorial' kind of thing), at least not when I search with cmd+f on 'rich'.

[jsulm]

@DevinQT said in Confusion about the documentation:

cmd+f

this is searching in your browser on the currently loaded webpage. If you open the link provided by @mrjj you will see search field there. type "rich text" there and you will find what you're looking for.

[DevinQT]

@jsulm

Yeah I imagined that would be the case since that is a Google search of the whole documentation. But allright I think it just sort of floats in space in the documentation, not being part of some kind of series or something then? Only accessible via Google search?

[jsulm]

@DevinQT Yes, it is problematic that if you go to Qt GUI part of the documentation you will not have anything related to rich text even if it is part of Qt GUI.

[DevinQT]

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[Pl45m4]

@DevinQT

I know what you mean :) It seems, that there are no ways to enter this (https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/richtext.html) page, except Googling that page.
But everything that can be found on the Rich Text Page, is accessible by itself (e.g. QFont).
If you ignore the detailed text, it´s just a collection of links leading to Rich-Text-Formatting classes :)

[JonB]

@Pl45m4

It seems, that there are no ways to enter this (https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/richtext.html) page, except Googling that page.

Since you happen to ask, actually there is. Go to https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/richtext-html-subset.html. Links showing as text

Supported Tags

The following table lists the HTML tags supported by Qt's rich text engine:

CSS Properties

The following table lists the CSS properties supported by Qt's rich text engine:

each point to your page :)

But don't ask me where that page gets referenced...

[JKSH]

@DevinQT @Pl45m4 I personally find it much faster to search for what I want instead of navigating through links.

This browser plugin makes it even easier: https://forum.qt.io/topic/35616/web-browser-extension-for-improved-doc-searches

[JonB]

@JKSH
Just installed under Linux FF. No more Google searches frequently taking me to Qt 4.x!! Thanks :)

I just wish the search inside https://doc.qt.io wasn't so irritating: the first hits are all/often advertising pages, I suppose that's Google Search for you?

[JKSH]

@JonB said in Confusion about the documentation:

Just installed under Linux FF. No more Google searches frequently taking me to Qt 4.x!! Thanks :)

Glad to help!

I just wish the search inside https://doc.qt.io wasn't so irritating: the first hits are all/often advertising pages, I suppose that's Google Search for you?

Does it serve ads? https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/search-results.html?q=qobject only gives me relevant doc pages. (and I think I've disabled all my ad blockers...)

Not that it bothers me much, since I don't use it :-D

[DevinQT]

@JKSH

Thanks everyone!
I like the extension too. Will Qt make one for Safari in the future?

[JKSH]

@DevinQT said in Confusion about the documentation:

I like the extension too.

I'm glad you like it :)

Will Qt make one for Safari in the future?

I don't use Safari so I didn't make a Safari version.

But the source code is in the public domain; feel free to port it to Safari if you want: https://github.com/JKSH/qt-doc-search/

[DevinQT]

Okay. 🙂

Other question for the ones with iPhones: How can I handy read the documentation on my iPhone? I can't increase the text size. It isn't a mobile site.

Can I maybe download it maybe somewhere and view it in any other way?