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The KDevelop Programming Handbook

The User Guide to C++ Application Design for the K Desktop Environment (KDE) with the KDevelop IDE, Version 1.2

1. Introduction

• 1.1 What you should know already
• 1.2 About this Handbook
• 1.3 Additional Information

2. The KDE and Qt Libraries

• 2.1 The Qt GUI Toolkit
• 2.2 What KDE provides

3. Creating new Applications

• 3.1 Invoking KAppWizard and Project Generation
• 3.2 The First Build
• 3.3 The Source Skeleton
• 3.4 Additional Contents of KDevelop Projects

4. Application View Design

• 4.1 Using Library Views
• 4.2 Creating your own Views

5. Configuring Menubars and Toolbars

• 5.1 How does it work ?
• 5.2 Adding a new menu
• 5.3 Integrating Toolbar buttons
• 5.4 Configuring Statusbars
• 5.5 Keyboard Accelerator Configuration

6. The Dialogeditor: Where your Dialogs are Build

• 6.1 What the Dialogeditor provides
• 6.2 Qt and KDE Widgets
• 6.3 Properties of Qt supported Widgets
• 6.4 Properties of KDE supported Widgets
• 6.5 Constructing a new Dialog
• 6.6 Setting Widget Properties
• 6.7 Integrating the Dialog

7. Printing Support

• 7.1 The Qt Print Dialog
• 7.2 The QPainter Class

8. Help Functions

• 8.1 Tool-Tips
• 8.2 Adding Quick-help
• 8.3 Extending the Statusbar Help
• 8.4 The "What's This...?" Button

9. Extending the Documentation with SGML

• 9.1 Why SGML ?
• 9.2 What the Documentation already contains
• 9.3 Writing SGML Documentation
• 9.4 How to call Help in Dialogs

10. Class Documentation with KDoc

• 10.1 How to use KDevelop's Documentation features
• 10.2 Adding Class and Member Documentation
• 10.3 Special Tags

11. Internationalization

• 11.1 What is i18n ?
• 11.2 How KDE supports Internationalization
• 11.3 Adding a Language to your Project
• 11.4 Translation Team Contacts

12. Finding Errors

• 12.1 Debugging Macros provided by Qt
• 12.2 KDE Macros

13. The KDE File System Standard

• 13.1 Introduction
• 13.2 Directory Layout
• 13.3 What does this mean to application developers?
• 13.4 Application Documentation
• 13.5 What does this mean to library developers?

14. File System Usage for KDevelop Projects

• 14.1 Accessing Files during Runtime
• 14.2 KApplication Methods
• 14.3 KIconLoader Methods
• 14.4 Setting File Installation Properties
• 14.5 Organizing Project Data
• 14.6 The kdelnk File

15. Programming Guidelines

• 15.1 General Rules
• 15.2 Operating System Dependencies

16. Licensing

• 16.1 The GPL License
• 16.2 KDE and Qt Licensing Issues
• 16.3 Your Product License

17. References

18. Copyright

Appendix

19. Additional Information

• 19.1 Example Makefile.am for a Shared Library

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