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authorJ-P Nurmi <jpnurmi@digia.com>2012-11-27 11:38:39 +0100
committerThe Qt Project <gerrit-noreply@qt-project.org>2012-11-27 19:31:21 +0100
commit027168168cb94ed4521816dc98ffcae4268d555a (patch)
treea47532af56f138618f61e24c0b5c15cf6e8d5478 /src/gui
parent114f247773c2ba7d7a04dec5381be73841ff965a (diff)
QGuiApplication docs: clarify that QWidget needs QApplication
Task-number: QTBUG-28076 Change-Id: I2ebbedd1916f472b9517b509f3b5499d93c71d45 Reviewed-by: Jing Bai <jing.bai@digia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/gui')
-rw-r--r--src/gui/kernel/qguiapplication.cpp4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/gui/kernel/qguiapplication.cpp b/src/gui/kernel/qguiapplication.cpp
index 61c733b493..2beddd2cd6 100644
--- a/src/gui/kernel/qguiapplication.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/kernel/qguiapplication.cpp
@@ -217,7 +217,9 @@ static inline void clearFontUnlocked()
For any GUI application using Qt, there is precisely \b one QGuiApplication
object no matter whether the application has 0, 1, 2 or more windows at
any given time. For non-GUI Qt applications, use QCoreApplication instead,
- as it does not depend on the \l QtGui library.
+ as it does not depend on the \l QtGui library. For QWidget based Qt applications,
+ use QApplication instead, as it provides some functionality needed for creating
+ QWidget instances.
The QGuiApplication object is accessible through the instance() function, which
returns a pointer equivalent to the global \l qApp pointer.