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authorLeena Miettinen <riitta-leena.miettinen@qt.io>2017-02-13 10:50:43 +0100
committerLeena Miettinen <riitta-leena.miettinen@qt.io>2017-02-13 10:11:00 +0000
commitc3608ec7e0e8c12d28ee46427af492f42524b6fd (patch)
treef5d9236ee76de42a178b5bcf13840140f0500814 /doc/src/qtquick
parent55a1440afdb9c0c0266abc8899519004ccb35109 (diff)
Doc: State that Qt Quick Projects cannot be deployed to mobile
...or embedded. Suggest creating an application, instead. Task-number: QTCREATORBUG-17708 Change-Id: I6b5b1f26bde0d281f162bc68d5cb9088e8fc79cd Reviewed-by: Mitch Curtis <mitch.curtis@qt.io>
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-rw-r--r--doc/src/qtquick/qtquick-creating.qdoc19
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diff --git a/doc/src/qtquick/qtquick-creating.qdoc b/doc/src/qtquick/qtquick-creating.qdoc
index 0cd1984f27..33551569c9 100644
--- a/doc/src/qtquick/qtquick-creating.qdoc
+++ b/doc/src/qtquick/qtquick-creating.qdoc
@@ -63,10 +63,13 @@
\l{http://threejs.org}{three.js}.
\li \uicontrol {Qt Quick UI} (in the \uicontrol {Other Project}
- category) creates a Qt Quick UI project with a single QML file that
+ category) creates a \l{Creating Qt Quick UI Projects}
+ {Qt Quick UI project} with a single QML file that
contains the main view. You can review Qt Quick UI projects in a
\l{Previewing QML Files}{preview tool} and you need not build them.
- They do not contain any C++ code.
+ Qt Quick UI projects cannot be deployed to embedded or mobile
+ target platforms. For those platforms, create a Qt Quick application
+ instead.
\li \uicontrol {Qt Quick Controls UI} is like \uicontrol {Qt Quick UI},
but using Qt Quick Controls.
@@ -124,6 +127,18 @@
\section1 Creating Qt Quick UI Projects
+ Qt Quick UI projects are useful for testing or prototyping user interfaces,
+ or for setting up a separate project just for QML editing, for example. You
+ cannot use them for application development, because they do not contain:
+
+ \list
+ \li C++ code
+ \li Resource files (.qrc)
+ \li Code needed for deploying applications to mobile or embedded devices
+ \endlist
+
+ To create a Qt Quick UI project:
+
\list 1
\li Select \uicontrol File > \uicontrol {New File or Project} >