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authorCaroline Chao <caroline.chao@digia.com>2013-05-29 14:03:23 +0200
committerThe Qt Project <gerrit-noreply@qt-project.org>2013-05-30 14:19:06 +0200
commite840b9e2c56a786ef7c4232b8fb2f1df1b285da4 (patch)
treebd7feb603d32b25c832f859a044db695f43fa951 /src
parent84adf4ff5b6b459c5dfc084b12f8ce6b58e5f5b7 (diff)
Doc: Fix the positioning topic page
Mention both Positioners and Qt Quick Layouts. Also add qtquickdialogs to qtquick.qdocconf. Change-Id: I19bc09a0a81be7c748af83ddf38f1111f0ecc81a Reviewed-by: Jerome Pasion <jerome.pasion@digia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/quick/doc/qtquick.qdocconf2
-rw-r--r--src/quick/doc/src/concepts/positioning/topic.qdoc25
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/src/quick/doc/qtquick.qdocconf b/src/quick/doc/qtquick.qdocconf
index 13b03d40e4..a27b0f82f7 100644
--- a/src/quick/doc/qtquick.qdocconf
+++ b/src/quick/doc/qtquick.qdocconf
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ qhp.QtQuick.subprojects.examples.selectors = fake:example
tagfile = ../../../doc/qtquick/qtquick.tags
-depends += qtcore qtxmlpatterns qtqml qtgui qtlinguist qtquickcontrols qtquicklayouts qtdoc
+depends += qtcore qtxmlpatterns qtqml qtgui qtlinguist qtquickcontrols qtquicklayouts qtdoc qtquickdialogs
headerdirs += ..
diff --git a/src/quick/doc/src/concepts/positioning/topic.qdoc b/src/quick/doc/src/concepts/positioning/topic.qdoc
index 25fc6eaab7..bae6a7f71b 100644
--- a/src/quick/doc/src/concepts/positioning/topic.qdoc
+++ b/src/quick/doc/src/concepts/positioning/topic.qdoc
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Visual items in QML can be positioned in a variety of ways. The most important
positioning-related concept is that of anchoring, a form of relative
positioning where items can be anchored (or attached) to each other at certain
boundaries. Other positioning concepts include absolute positioning,
-positioning with coordinate bindings, and layouts.
+positioning with coordinate bindings, positioners, and layouts.
\section1 Manual Positioning
@@ -134,21 +134,20 @@ positioning, whereas a "contaminated" anchor layout is one which uses both
anchoring and bindings (either on position-related [x,y] properties or on
dimension-related [width,height] properties) to determine the position.
-\section1 Layouts
-
-Qt Quick also provides some built-in layout items. For many use cases, the
-best layout to use is a simple grid, row, or column, and Qt Quick provides
-items which will layout children in these formations in the most efficient
-manner possible.
+\section1 Positioners
-There are many well-known layouts which work well in user-interfaces, such as
-grids and lists, rows and columns. Qt Quick supports these sort of pre-defined
-layouts, which can often be more performant to draw than anchor or
-binding-based layouts. See the documentation on
-\l{qtquick-positioning-layouts.html}{layout types} for more
-information about utilizing pre-defined layouts.
+Qt Quick also provides some built-in positioner items. For many use cases, the best
+positioner to use is a simple grid, row, or column, and Qt Quick provides items which
+will position children in these formations in the most efficient manner possible.
+See the documentation on \l{qtquick-positioning-layouts.html}{item positioners types}
+for more information about utilizing pre-defined positioners.
+\section1 Layouts
+From Qt 5.1, the module \l {Qt Quick Layouts} can also be used to arrange Qt Quick
+items in a user interface. Unlike positioners, the types in Qt Quick Layouts manage
+both the positions and sizes of items in a declarative interface. They are well
+suited for resizable user interfaces.
\section1 Right-To-Left Support