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\snippet resource-system/application.pro 1
+ This creates a resource of several \c{.png} files, that are addressable
+ like this: \c{":/images/copy.png"}.
+
+ If the directory layout of the files you want to embed into the resource
+ doesn't match the expectations of the application, you can specify
+ \c{resources.base}. \c base is a path prefix that denotes the root point of
+ the file's alias. In the example above, if \c{resources.base} is set to
+ \c{"images"}, then \c{copy.png} is addressable as \c{":/copy.png"}.
+
\section1 Runtime API
Qt API that deals with iterating and reading files has built-in support for