[solved] searchable documentation?

mzimmers

Hi -

I'm trying to use the "documentation pages":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/ to research several specific topics. The search at the top of the page, though, seems to return lots of pages of discussion and non-reference material.

Does Qt have anything like a wiki, or at least a more focused documentation area that allows users to quickly find information on a very specific topic?

Thanks.

andre

I agree the search in the online docs is less than ideal (personally, I'd classify it as "unusable"). That's why I mostly stick with the offline docs via Assistant or Qt Creator. The search in there is pretty good and fast.

Smar

Google is often nice, with “site:developer.qt.nokia.com Foo”

miracules

Hi guys,

As the creator of the search feature on the doc pages I totally agree with you. It was never meant to be a full-breed search feature in the first place. However, it was assumed to be just that. By its design it is just meant to be a fast index look-up for individual pages. The feature is not complete, and maybe never will be.

In the not-so-far-away future, the documentation will be integrated into Devnet, and it will receive a proper search engine. We want to give you an excellent experience working with the documentation, and that is what we currently are working accomplishing with in Devnet.

So, if I where you I'd stay tuned, and use what other search tool preferred in the meantime. :)

mzimmers

Thanks for the suggestions, guys. I wasn't aware of Assistant. My $.02 is that the presentation of Assistant is excellent and worthy of serving as a model for future tools. The Assistant interface on top of a comprehensive reference document that would return explanatory pages for things like ui_setup or m_generator would be fantastic.

ZapB

m_generator was a member variable in the "example":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/forums/viewthread/4575/ that I wrote for you. How are the Qt docs supposed to know about that?

The docs are also integrated directly within qt-creator. Although as others have said in other topics, I also prefer assistant as it handles multiple tabs better (IMHO).

mzimmers

Thanks, Zap. I later realized my error in that request. I think I'll stick to the online stuff for now, but I'll remember Assistant for later.

goetz

The search functionality of Assistant is far more better than the online docs. Why wait with Assistant? You have it already and it doesn't need any additional care :-)