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/*!
\module QtGui
\title The Qt GUI Module
\ingroup modules
\brief The Qt GUI module provides the basic enablers for graphical
applications written with Qt.
The Qt GUI module provides classes for windowing system
integration, event handling, OpenGL and OpenGL ES integration, 2D
graphics, imaging, fonts and typography. These classes are used
internally by Qt's user interface technologies and can also be
used directly, for instance to write applications using low-level
OpenGL ES graphics APIs.
To include the definitions of the module's classes, use the
following directive:
\snippet code/doc_src_qtgui.pro 0
See the \l {Qt GUI Module Overview} for more details.
*/
/*!
\page qtgui-overview.html
\title Qt GUI Module Overview
The Qt GUI module provides classes for windowing system
integration, event handling, OpenGL and OpenGL ES integration, 2D
graphics, basic imaging, fonts and text. These classes are used
internally by Qt's user interface technologies and can also be
used directly, for instance to write applications using low-level
OpenGL ES graphics APIs.
For application developers writing user interfaces, Qt provides
higher level API's, like Qt Quick, that are much more suitable
than the enablers found in the Qt GUI module.
than the enablers found in the Qt GUI module.
\section1 Application Windows
The most important classes in the Qt GUI module are
QGuiApplication and QWindow. A Qt application that wants to show
content on screen, will need to make use of these. QGuiApplication
contains the main event loop, where all events from the window
system and other sources are processed and dispatched. It also
handles the application's initialization and finalization.
The \l QWindow class represents a window in the underlying
windowing system. It provides a number of virtual functions to
handle events (\l {QEvent}) from the windowing system, such as
touch-input, exposure, focus, key strokes and geometry changes.
\section1 2D Graphics
The Qt GUI module contains classes for 2D graphics, imaging, fonts
and advanced typography.
A \l QWindow created with the surface type \l
{QSurface::RasterSurface} can be used in combination with \l
{QBackingStore} and \l {QPainter}, Qt's highly optimized 2D vector
graphics API. QPainter supports drawing lines, polygons, vector
paths, images and text. For more information, see \l{Paint
System} and \l {Raster Window Example}.
Qt can load and save images using the \l QImage and \l QPixmap
classes. By default, Qt supports the most common image formats
including JPEG and PNG among others. Users can add support for
additional formats via the \l QImageIOPlugin class. For more
information, see \l {Reading and Writing Image Files}
Typography in Qt is done with \l QTextDocument which uses the \l
QPainter API in combination with Qt's font classes, primarily
QFont. Applications that prefer more low-level APIs to text
and font handling, classes like QRawFont and QGlyphRun can be
used.
\section1 OpenGL and OpenGL ES integration
QWindow supports rendering using desktop OpenGL, OpenGL ES 1.1 and
OpenGL ES 2.0, depending on what the platform supports. OpenGL
rendering is enabled by setting the QWindow's surface type to
QSurface::OpenGLSurface, then creating a QOpenGLContext to manage
the native OpenGL context.
For more information, see \l {OpenGL Enablers}.
The Qt GUI module also contains a few math classes to aid with the
most common mathmatical operations related to 3D graphics. These
classes include \l {QMatrix4x4}, \l {QVector4D} and \l {QQuaternion}
A \l {QWindow} created with the \l {QSurface::OpenGLSurface} can
be used in combination with \l QPainter and \l QOpenGLPaintDevice
to have OpenGL hardware accellerated 2D graphics, by sacrificing
some of the visual quality.
\section1 Qt GUI prior to Qt 5.0
Prior to Qt 5.0, the Qt GUI library was the monolithic container
for all things relating to graphical user interfaces in Qt, and
included the Qt widget set, the item views, the graphics view
framework and also printing. Starting Qt 5, these classes have
been moved to the QtWidgets library. Printing has been
moved to the QtPrintSupport library. Please note that these
libraries can be excluded from a Qt installation.
QtGui now contains only a small set of enablers, which are generally
useful for all graphical applications.
*/
/*
### DOC-TODO: link under OpenGL to hello-opengl for QWindow in
examples/gui/opengl/openglwindow. Idea: QWindow which draws a
triangle using GLES 2.0 compatible shaders. Do not care about
1.1 API as almost everyone has 2.0 support these days.
*/
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