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<td align="right" valign="center"><img src="logo32.png" align="right" width="64" height="32" border="0"></td></tr></table><h1 align=center>TQt Tutorial - Chapter 6: Building Blocks Galore!</h1>

 
<p> <center><img src="t6.png" alt="Screenshot of tutorial six"></center> 
<p> This example shows how to encapsulate two widgets into a new component and
how easy it is to use many widgets. For the first time, we use a custom
widget as a child widget.
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#include &lt;<a href="qapplication-h.html">ntqapplication.h</a>&gt;
#include &lt;<a href="qpushbutton-h.html">ntqpushbutton.h</a>&gt;
#include &lt;<a href="qslider-h.html">ntqslider.h</a>&gt;
#include &lt;<a href="qlcdnumber-h.html">ntqlcdnumber.h</a>&gt;
#include &lt;<a href="qfont-h.html">ntqfont.h</a>&gt;
#include &lt;<a href="qvbox-h.html">ntqvbox.h</a>&gt;
#include &lt;<a href="qgrid-h.html">ntqgrid.h</a>&gt;

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public:
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    <a href="ntqslider.html">TQSlider</a> * slider = new <a href="ntqslider.html">TQSlider</a>( Horizontal, this, "slider" );
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    for( int r = 0 ; r &lt; 4 ; r++ )
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<p> <h2> Line-by-line Walkthrough
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    {
    public:
        LCDRange( <a href="ntqwidget.html">TQWidget</a> *parent=0, const char *name=0 );
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<p> The LCDRange widget is a widget without any API. It just has a
constructor. This sort of widget is not very useful, so we'll add some API later.
<p> <pre>    LCDRange::LCDRange( <a href="ntqwidget.html">TQWidget</a> *parent, const char *name )
            : <a href="ntqvbox.html">TQVBox</a>( parent, name )
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<p> This is lifted straight from the
<a href="tutorial1-05.html#constructor">MyWidget constructor</a> in Chapter 5.
The only differences are that the button is left out and the class
is renamed.
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    {
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        MyWidget( <a href="ntqwidget.html">TQWidget</a> *parent=0, const char *name=0 );
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<p> MyWidget, too, contains no API except a constructor.
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<p> The push button that used to be in what is now LCDRange has been
separated so that we can have one "Quit" button and many LCDRange
objects.
<p> <pre>        <a href="ntqgrid.html">TQGrid</a> *grid = new <a href="ntqgrid.html">TQGrid</a>( 4, this );
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<p> We create a <a href="ntqgrid.html">TQGrid</a> object with four columns. The TQGRid widget
automatically arranges its children in rows and columns; you can
specify the number of rows or of columns, and TQGrid will discover its
new children and fit them into the grid.
<p> <pre>        for( int r = 0 ; r &lt; 4 ; r++ )
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<p> Four columns, four rows.
<p> We create 4*4 LCDRanges, all of which are children of the grid object.
The TQGrid widget will arrange them.
<p> <pre>    }
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<p> That's all.
<p> <h2> Behavior
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<a name="2"></a><p> This program shows how easy it is to use many widgets at a time. Each
one behaves like the slider and LCD number in the previous
chapter. Again, the difference lies in the implementation.
<p> (See <a href="tutorial1-01.html#compiling">Compiling</a> for how to create a
makefile and build the application.)
<p> <h2> Exercises
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<a name="3"></a><p> Initialize each slider with a different/random value on startup.
<p> The source contains three occurrences of "4". What happens if you
change the one in the <a href="ntqgrid.html">TQGrid</a> constructor call?  What about the other
two?  Why is this?
<p> You're now ready for <a href="tutorial1-07.html">Chapter 7.</a>
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