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| author | Tor Arne Vestbø <tor.arne.vestbo@qt.io> | 2020-10-12 17:09:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Tor Arne Vestbø <tor.arne.vestbo@qt.io> | 2020-10-15 14:41:33 +0200 |
| commit | 3b1db5daadab9cac75b9727880fad2e38a35387f (patch) | |
| tree | d9997fa69db7958c92e91f65a0533e507f19344d | |
| parent | 5bb71e60fb5a829a8e6beb424be48cf1bb32cdfa (diff) | |
| download | qtdoc-3b1db5daadab9cac75b9727880fad2e38a35387f.tar.gz | |
Add window embedding platform documentation
Change-Id: If47518a560a12a8af38019ab105240011a1ba876
Reviewed-by: Paul Wicking <paul.wicking@qt.io>
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/platformintegration/platformintegration.qdoc | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/platformintegration/platformintegration.qdocconf | 2 |
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/platformintegration/platformintegration.qdoc b/doc/src/platformintegration/platformintegration.qdoc index 91b7dc57..54d6b594 100644 --- a/doc/src/platformintegration/platformintegration.qdoc +++ b/doc/src/platformintegration/platformintegration.qdoc @@ -58,6 +58,24 @@ \section1 Window Embedding + Windows created by the underlying platform APIs may be used as both + parent containers for Qt windows, or embedded into Qt windows as child + windows. + + The former is useful if the application is mainly written using the native + platform APIs, but where parts of the application uses Qt, for example + to draw a specialized UI. To embed Qt into the window hierarchy of the + native application, use QWindow::winId() to get the native handle for + the Qt window, and then use the native APIs to re-parent the window + into the native UI. + + The latter is useful if the native platform, or another toolkit, exposes + a specialized control as a native window. By using QWindow::fromWinId() + to wrap the native window handle in a QWindow, the window can then be + re-parented into the Qt window hierarchy as any other QWindow. To re-parent + this QWindow into a Qt Widget based UI, use the widgets-specific + QWidget::createWindowContainer() function. + \section1 Native Interfaces \section1 Platform Support diff --git a/doc/src/platformintegration/platformintegration.qdocconf b/doc/src/platformintegration/platformintegration.qdocconf index b0229458..42914d3c 100644 --- a/doc/src/platformintegration/platformintegration.qdocconf +++ b/doc/src/platformintegration/platformintegration.qdocconf @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ navigation.landingpage = "Platform Integration" description = "Integrating Qt with the native platform" version = $QT_VERSION -depends += qtcore qtgui qtdoc +depends += qtcore qtgui qtwidgets qtdoc sourcedirs = . headerdirs = . |