Qt tutorial-welcome screen style for app

Dariusz

Hey

I'd like to make a tutorial on how to use an app I just made... like 1st open with pop-ups/arrows explaining whats what... has any1 got any idea how this can be done in qt widgets?

I think QtCreator has something like that too... mhmm

TIA

mrjj

Hi
One option is to use an overlay widget like here
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19199863/draw-rectangular-overlay-on-qwidget-at-click
Put it over the entire main window.
This allows you to draw over the widgets so you can write text and arrow that point to a place on the main window as you wish.
If you mean something like that ?
I didnt see Creator's version of it :)

aha_1980

@mrjj

Its there after first start or with Help > UI Tour.

Pretty nice done.

Dariusz

Hey

Ooo I see! So its just a widget over it with functions/paint overrides etc etc to make the stuff do stuff O_O Thats epic!
Thanks!

Regards
Dariusz

mrjj

@aha_1980
Thanks. I knew i had seen it somewhere but sadly i went looking in options :)

@Dariusz

Yes it seems so.
And you also need some data structure to contain the info you want to show pr widget.
Maybe as HTML so you can fancy it up a bit. (bigger caption etc)

Dariusz

@mrjj said in Qt tutorial-welcome screen style for app:

@aha_1980
Thanks. I knew i had seen it somewhere but sadly i went looking in options :)

@Dariusz

Yes it seems so.
And you also need some data structure to contain the info you want to show pr widget.
Maybe as HTML so you can fancy it up a bit. (bigger caption etc)

Uuuuu can you elaborate with HTML ^^ ?
I'm starting my help gui now so will see how it goes, might be back in 10 mins... might not... who knows! (lol)
TIA

mrjj

@Dariusz
Hi
Nothing fancy with the html. Its just you can easily add a bigger headline and such so it, not all same font size
That you can also do with painter if you wish so HTML is not critical to use.
Just maybe faster to prepare the text.

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If you plan just to have one type of text then forget about i said HTML :)