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authorKai Köhne <kai.koehne@qt.io>2021-01-08 11:19:35 +0100
committerKai Köhne <kai.koehne@qt.io>2021-01-11 09:52:56 +0100
commit1f53189c29f80c736877333631338670a06ac439 (patch)
tree80ec94db8e31001ec0212f032397e7a58d51615d /src/corelib/doc/src
parent713829b718e3842cec3266838d5692f754582de6 (diff)
Doc: Generalize timer docs
The snippets do not talk about Qt Widgets specifically. Pick-to: 6.0 5.15 Change-Id: Icc4f243c93189f08124074e4918d535aa37e6560 Reviewed-by: Leena Miettinen <riitta-leena.miettinen@qt.io>
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-rw-r--r--src/corelib/doc/src/timers.qdoc6
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diff --git a/src/corelib/doc/src/timers.qdoc b/src/corelib/doc/src/timers.qdoc
index 1fa62a6afb..f54d2fa457 100644
--- a/src/corelib/doc/src/timers.qdoc
+++ b/src/corelib/doc/src/timers.qdoc
@@ -65,14 +65,14 @@
The main API for the timer functionality is QTimer. That class
provides regular timers that emit a signal when the timer fires, and
inherits QObject so that it fits well into the ownership structure
- of most GUI programs. The normal way of using it is like this:
+ of most Qt programs. The normal way of using it is like this:
\snippet timers/timers.cpp 0
\snippet timers/timers.cpp 1
\snippet timers/timers.cpp 2
- The QTimer object is made into a child of this widget so that,
- when this widget is deleted, the timer is deleted too.
+ The QTimer object is made into a child of \c this object so that,
+ when \c this object is deleted, the timer is deleted too.
Next, its \l{QTimer::}{timeout()} signal is connected to the slot
that will do the work, it is started with a value of 1000
milliseconds, indicating that it will time out every second.