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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Information on resources
From:       Michael Pyne <pynm0001 () comcast ! net>
Date:       2004-04-30 22:29:33
Message-ID: 200404301829.39793.pynm0001 () comcast ! net
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On Friday 30 April 2004 18:05, Alan Bryan wrote:
> Can someone tell me where I could find online a good
> resource for how KDE 3.0's resource management works?
> By resource management, I'm referring to the way
> pictures, toolbars, menus, and icons are including and
> should be distributed with an application.

Menus and toolbars are generally handled by KDE's XML-GUI technology.  There 
is a short tutorial for that online at 
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/xmlui/preface.html

The basic idea with XML-GUI is that your menus and such are described in an 
XML file, which includes all the functionality that your program will 
support.  You DON'T include standard fare like File->Open or File->Quit.  
Just tell KDE you need it by creating a KStdAction, and it will automatically 
be inserted into your menu and toolbar.  You can create a KAction to tell KDE 
that you need one of the items in your XML file inserted into the menu.  You 
also use your XML file to describe what icons are used, the shortcut keys, 
and so on.

KDE uses the autotools for the build framework.  KDevelop, the KDE IDE can 
typically handle that for you.  Icons have a brief description in 
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/other/makefile_am_howto.html

You can load your icons programmatically by using KIconLoader if I remember 
right.

But basically, you need to hit up http://developer.kde.org/ and do some 
reading.  Google can also be helpful.  KDE is built on Qt, so 
http://www.trolltech.com/ might be of some help too.  Qt includes many 
examples with their source code.

Good luck!

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne
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