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Das KDevelop-Programmierhandbuch: Leitfaden zur C++-Anwendungsentwicklung für das K Desktop Environment (KDE) mit Hilfe der KDevelop-IDE in der Version 1.2
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# 1.2. About this Handbook

This handbook has been written to give developers an introduction into KDE application development by using the KDevelop Integrated Development Environment.

The following chapters therefore give an introduction on how to create projects, explains the sourcecodes already generated and shows how to extend the given sources on various topics such as toolbar s, menu bars and view areas.

Then the dialogeditor is discussed in detail, explaining how widgets are created and covers widget properties settings in detail for all provided widgets.

Finally, you will learn about several topics that will complete your knowledge in regards of project design and helps you work out additional issues besides coding such as adding API documentation and extending online-manuals.

In the next chapter

we'll take a look at the Qt and KDE libraries , showing basic concepts and why things are the way they are. Also, we will discuss how to create the tutorial applications provided with the Qt toolkit by using KDevelop, so beginners can already see first results with a few steps, and thereby will learn how to make use of some of KDevelop's best features.

In the following chapters you will learn:

- how to create an application with the KAppWizard,

- what the project skeleton already provides,

- what the code already created means,

- how to create your own views,

- how to extend your application's functionality by dialog, menu bars and toolbar s

- how to make your application user friendly by providing help functions and

- how to write SGML online documentation.

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