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authorSamuel Rødal <samuel.rodal@nokia.com>2012-08-30 14:07:59 +0200
committerQt by Nokia <qt-info@nokia.com>2012-09-11 12:09:47 +0200
commitaf33765b577bb3b8049f95ee40dc66d3f93ca969 (patch)
treea36b0909bb6a7c98809d6620247505b1f3023a26 /src/gui
parent8fe1d9fb136786986fa2f9e23e4212dba5647836 (diff)
Add links to raster and opengl window examples in the QWindow docs.
Change-Id: I4d4ddffd6b8aa682b516b55ed2c5e71585d83bcf Reviewed-by: Eskil Abrahamsen Blomfeldt <eskil.abrahamsen-blomfeldt@nokia.com>
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diff --git a/src/gui/kernel/qwindow.cpp b/src/gui/kernel/qwindow.cpp
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+++ b/src/gui/kernel/qwindow.cpp
@@ -72,6 +72,14 @@ QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE
A window that is supplied a parent becomes a native child window of
their parent window.
+ An application will typically use QWidget or QQuickView for its UI, and not
+ QWindow directly. Still, it is possible to render directly to a QWindow
+ with QBackingStore or QOpenGLContext, when wanting to keep dependencies to
+ a minimum or when wanting to use OpenGL directly. The
+ \l{gui/rasterwindow}{Raster Window} and \l{gui/openglwindow}{OpenGL Window}
+ examples are useful reference examples for how to render to a QWindow using
+ either approach.
+
\section1 Resource management
Windows can potentially use a lot of memory. A usual measurement is