<!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/extensions/motif/doc/walkthrough.doc:776 --> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title>Using TQt Main Window Classes</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>Using TQt Main Window Classes</h1> [ <a href="motif-walkthrough-5.html">Previous: Using Existing Dialogs with TQMotifDialog</a> ] [ <a href="motif-walkthrough.html">Home</a> ] [ <a href="motif-walkthrough-7.html">Next: Refactoring Existing Code</a> ] <p> After we have replaced all the dialogs, we are ready to begin replacing the <em>Main Window</em>. <a href="motif-walkthrough.html#4">As mentioned above</a>, we will replace the existing <tt>XmMainWindow</tt> and popup-menu heirarchy with <a href="application.html">TQt Main Window Classes</a>. <p> We will use <a href="designer-manual.html">TQt Designer</a> to design our new main window. <p> <h2> Implementing the <em>Main Window</em> </h2> <a name="1"></a><p> The description for the <em>Main Window</em> is saved as <tt>mainwindow.ui</tt>. We add this file to the project file and regenerate the <tt>Makefile</tt>. The <em>uic</em> utility generates the code for our <em>Main Window</em>, which is then compiled and linked into our application. <p> <em>TQt Designer</em> also created the <tt>mainwindow.ui.h</tt> file. We need to add the implementation for our <em>Main Window</em> to this skeleton implementation. <p> We begin by adding the necessary includes for <a href="ntqapplication.html">TQApplication</a> and <a href="qmotifwidget.html">TQMotifWidget</a>. <p> <p> <pre></pre> <p> We need includes for the <a href="motif-extension.html#Motif">Motif</a> callback structs and the <tt>XmdPrint</tt> widget. <p> <pre></pre><pre></pre> <p> We are now ready to add implementations for the slots in our <em>Main Window</em>. We have one slot per menu item. Each slot will call the existing callback functions found in <tt>todo.cpp</tt> and <tt>actions.cpp</tt>. <p> <center><table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="2" border="0"> <tr bgcolor="#a2c511"> <th valign="top" colspan="3" rowspan="1"> File menu <tr bgcolor="#f0f0f0"> <td valign="top">New <td valign="top"><tt>MainWindow::fileNew()</tt> <td valign="top">calls the <tt>New()</tt> callback <tr bgcolor="#d0d0d0"> <td valign="top">Open <td valign="top"><tt>MainWindow::fileOpen()</tt> <td valign="top">calls the <tt>Open()</tt> callback <tr bgcolor="#f0f0f0"> <td valign="top">Save <td valign="top"><tt>MainWindow::fileSave()</tt> <td valign="top">calls the <tt>SaveIt()</tt> callback <tr bgcolor="#d0d0d0"> <td valign="top">Save As <td valign="top"><tt>MainWindow::fileSaveAs()</tt> <td valign="top">calls the <tt>Save()</tt> callback <tr bgcolor="#f0f0f0"> <td valign="top">Print <td valign="top"><tt>MainWindow::filePrint()</tt> <td valign="top">calls the <tt>ShowPrintDialog()</tt> callback <tr bgcolor="#d0d0d0"> <td valign="top">Exit <td valign="top"><tt>MainWindow::fileExit()</tt> <td valign="top">calls <a href="ntqapplication.html#quit">TQApplication::quit</a>() <tr bgcolor="#a2c511"> <th valign="top" colspan="3" rowspan="1"> Selected menu <tr bgcolor="#f0f0f0"> <td valign="top">Properties <td valign="top"><tt>MainWindow::selProperties()</tt> <td valign="top">calls the <tt>EditPage()</tt> callback <tr bgcolor="#d0d0d0"> <td valign="top">New <td valign="top"><tt>MainWindow::selNewPage()</tt> <td valign="top">calls the <tt>NewPage()</tt> callback <tr bgcolor="#f0f0f0"> <td valign="top">Delete to Trash <td valign="top"><tt>MainWindow::selDeletePage()</tt> <td valign="top">calls the <tt>DeletePage()</tt> callback </table></center> <p> We need to add forward declarations for these callbacks before we can use them. <p> <pre></pre> <p> Each of the existing callback functions takes three arguments. We pass <em>NULL</em> to all of the arguments in this example (with a few exceptions, see below). The existing code does not rely on any of the arguments. Each slot implementation is a single line calling the related callback function. The code is not very interesting and would just take up space, so we've omitted it. <p> There are four exceptions to the above. The <tt>Open()</tt>, <tt>Save()</tt>, <tt>EditPage()</tt> and <tt>DeletePage()</tt> callbacks accept a pointer to the toplevel <a href="ntqwidget.html">TQWidget</a> as argument 2 (the <em>client_data</em> argument). For these four functions, we pass <em>this</em> as the second argument, which is a toplevel <tt>MainWindow</tt> derived from <a href="ntqmainwindow.html">TQMainWindow</a>. <p> <h2> Replacing the <em>Main Window</em> </h2> <a name="2"></a><p> The next step is to use the new <em>Main Window</em> in our application. The changes needed in <tt>todo.cpp</tt> are large due to the large amount of code being removed. <p> First, we add the include for our new <em>Main Window</em>. <p> <p> <pre></pre> <p> We can cleanup the Motif includes, since many of them are no longer needed. <p> <pre></pre><pre></pre><pre></pre> <p> The <tt>QuitAppl()</tt> and <tt>manageCB()</tt> callbacks are not needed any more, so we remove them. We do not need the global <tt>shell</tt> variable either. We remove it and all references to it in the <tt>New()</tt>, <tt>Save()</tt> and <tt>Open()</tt> callbacks. <p> In <tt>main()</tt>, we make the large changes. First, we use our new <tt>MainWindow</tt> instead of <a href="qmotifwidget.html">TQMotifWidget</a> with <tt>XmMainWindow</tt>. <p> <p> <pre></pre> <p> We will now use TQMotifWidget to create the <tt>XmNotebook</tt> widget. <p> <pre></pre> <p> We remove all of the code used to create the Motif menus. The remaining code in <tt>main()</tt> is self-explanatory. <p> <pre></pre> <p> Our application is now using <a href="ntqmainwindow.html">TQMainWindow</a> instead of <tt>XmMainWindow</tt>. After we build the project, the application runs and operates as expected. <p> [ <a href="motif-walkthrough-5.html">Previous: Using Existing Dialogs with TQMotifDialog</a> ] [ <a href="motif-walkthrough.html">Home</a> ] [ <a href="motif-walkthrough-7.html">Next: Refactoring Existing Code</a> ] <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>