<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <!-- /home/espenr/tmp/qt-3.3.8-espenr-2499/qt-x11-free-3.3.8/doc/uic.doc:1 --> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title>User Interface Compiler (uic)</title> <style type="text/css"><!-- fn { margin-left: 1cm; text-indent: -1cm; } a:link { color: #004faf; text-decoration: none } a:visited { color: #672967; text-decoration: none } body { background: #ffffff; color: black; } --></style> </head> <body> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr bgcolor="#E5E5E5"> <td valign=center> <a href="index.html"> <font color="#004faf">Home</font></a> | <a href="classes.html"> <font color="#004faf">All Classes</font></a> | <a href="mainclasses.html"> <font color="#004faf">Main Classes</font></a> | <a href="annotated.html"> <font color="#004faf">Annotated</font></a> | <a href="groups.html"> <font color="#004faf">Grouped Classes</font></a> | <a href="functions.html"> <font color="#004faf">Functions</font></a> </td> <td align="right" valign="center"><img src="logo32.png" align="right" width="64" height="32" border="0"></td></tr></table><h1 align=center>User Interface Compiler (uic)</h1> <p> This page documents the <em>User Interface Compiler</em> for the TQt GUI toolkit. The <em>uic</em> reads a user interface definition (.ui) file in XML as generated by <a href="designer-manual.html">TQt Designer</a> and creates corresponding C++ header or source files. It can also generate an image file to embed raw image data in C++ source code. <p> <h2> Options </h2> <a name="1"></a><p> <h3> File Generation Options </h3> <a name="1-1"></a><p> Generate declaration: <pre> uic [options] <file> </pre> <p> Generate implementation: <pre> uic [options] -impl <headerfile> <file> </pre> <ul> <li> <headerfile> - name of the declaration file </ul> <p> Generate image collection: <pre> uic [options] -embed <project> <image1> <image2> <image3> ... </pre> <ul> <li> <project> - project name <li> <image[0..n]> - image files </ul> <p> For convenience, <em>uic</em> can also generate declaration or implementation stubs for subclasses. <p> Generate subclass declaration: <pre> uic [options] -subdecl <classname> <headerfile> <file> </pre> <ul> <li> <classname> - name of the subclass to generate <li> <headerfile> - declaration file of the <b>baseclass</b> </ul> <p> Generate subclass implementation: <pre> uic [options] -subimpl <classname> <headerfile> <file> </pre> <ul> <li> <classname> - name of the subclass to generate <li> <headerfile> - declaration file of the <b>subclass</b> </ul> <p> <h3> General Options </h3> <a name="1-2"></a><p> <ul> <li> <tt>-o file</tt> - write output to 'file' rather than to stdout. <li> <tt>-nofwd</tt> - omit forward declarations of custom classes in the generated header file. This is necessary if typedef classes are used. <li> <tt>-tr func</tt> - use <tt>func(sourceText, comment)</tt> rather than trUtf8(sourceText, comment) for <a href="i18n.html#internationalization">internationalization</a>. <li> <tt>-pch file</tt> - add <tt>#include "file"</tt> as the first statement in the implementation file. </ul> <p> <h2> Usage </h2> <a name="2"></a><p> <em>uic</em> is almost always invoked by <tt>make (1)</tt>, rather than by hand. <p> Here are useful makefile rules if you only use GNU make: <pre> %.h: %.ui uic $< -o $@ %.cpp: %.ui uic -impl $*.h $< -o $@ </pre> If you want to write portably, you can use individual rules of the following form: <pre> NAME.h: NAME.ui uic $< -o $@ NAME.cpp: NAME.ui uic -impl $*.h $< -o $@ </pre> You must also remember to add <tt>NAME.cpp</tt> to your SOURCES (substitute your favorite name) variable and <tt>NAME.o</tt> to your OBJECTS variable. <p> (While we prefer to name our C++ source files .cpp, the <em>uic</em> doesn't care, so you can use .C, .cc, .CC, .cxx or even .c++ if you prefer.) <p> <!-- eof --> <p><address><hr><div align=center> <table width=100% cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td>Copyright © 2007 <a href="troll.html">Trolltech</a><td align=center><a href="trademarks.html">Trademarks</a> <td align=right><div align=right>TQt 3.3.8</div> </table></div></address></body> </html>