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SHARP CORPORATION
Sharp SL-series Zaurus “Qtopia” Development Start-up Guide
Ver 1.11, February 28, 2003, 18/63
2.2. Useful Tools for the Development
Once you have an ARM cross compiler, tmake, and the Qtopia SDK installed, you are ready to start developing
your Qtopia applications. The following are the tools and an overview that will be useful to your development.
2.2.1. The Qt Designer
If your desktop already has Qt/X11 installed, the Qt Designer tool is useful to assist your development efforts. It
helps you to organize functionality visually so you can easily create a small yet logical and functional GUI, such as
list, buttons, combo-boxes. It also allows you to configure the GUI component attributes, including SIGNAL/SLOT
processes corresponding to the GUI component operation.
The Qt Designer tool is in $QTDIR/tools/designer (or /opt/Qtopia/bin/designer). You may find more information on
the Qt Designer at http://doc.trolltech.com/2.3/designer.html
, and you will see how effectively you may organize
the functionality with the GUI. The following is a screenshot of the Qt Designer.
Once you design your application GUI using Qt Designer, you will have *.ui file created. You need to execute the
“uic” to these *.ui file in order for the compiler to handle.