<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <!-- uic.qdoc --> <title>User Interface Compiler (uic) | Qt 5.12</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style/offline-simple.css" /> <script type="text/javascript"> document.getElementsByTagName("link").item(0).setAttribute("href", "style/offline.css"); // loading style sheet breaks anchors that were jumped to before // so force jumping to anchor again setTimeout(function() { var anchor = location.hash; // need to jump to different anchor first (e.g. none) location.hash = "#"; setTimeout(function() { location.hash = anchor; }, 0); }, 0); </script> </head> <body> <div class="header" id="qtdocheader"> <div class="main"> <div class="main-rounded"> <div class="navigationbar"> <table><tr> <td ><a href="index.html">Qt 5.12</a></td><td >User Interface Compiler (uic)</td></tr></table><table class="buildversion"><tr> <td id="buildversion" width="100%" align="right">Qt 5.12.6 Reference Documentation</td> </tr></table> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="line"> <div class="content mainContent"> <div class="sidebar"> <div class="toc"> <h3><a name="toc">Contents</a></h3> <ul> <li class="level1"><a href="#options">Options</a></li> <li class="level1"><a href="#examples">Examples</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="sidebar-content" id="sidebar-content"></div></div> <h1 class="title">User Interface Compiler (uic)</h1> <span class="subtitle"></span> <!-- $$$uic.html-description --> <div class="descr"> <a name="details"></a> <p>This page documents the <i>User Interface Compiler</i> for the Qt Widgets module. The <code>uic</code> reads an XML format user interface definition (<code>.ui</code>) file as generated by Qt Designer and creates a corresponding C++ header file.</p> <p>Usage:</p> <pre class="cpp"> uic <span class="operator">[</span>options<span class="operator">]</span> <span class="operator"><</span>uifile<span class="operator">></span> </pre> <a name="options"></a> <h2 id="options">Options</h2> <p>The following table lists the command-line options recognized by <code>uic</code>.</p> <div class="table"><table class="generic"> <thead><tr class="qt-style"><th >Option</th><th >Description</th></tr></thead> <tr valign="top" class="odd"><td ><code>-o <file></code></td><td >Write output to <code><file></code> instead of to standard output.</td></tr> <tr valign="top" class="even"><td ><code>-tr <func></code></td><td >Use <code><func></code> for translating strings instead of <code>tr()</code>.</td></tr> <tr valign="top" class="odd"><td ><code>-p</code></td><td >Don't generate guards against multiple inclusion (<code>#ifndef</code> FOO_H ...).</td></tr> <tr valign="top" class="even"><td ><code>-h</code></td><td >Display the usage and the list of options.</td></tr> <tr valign="top" class="odd"><td ><code>-v</code></td><td >Display <code>uic</code>'s version number.</td></tr> <tr valign="top" class="even"><td ><code>-d</code></td><td >Display the dependencies for the UI.</td></tr> <tr valign="top" class="odd"><td ><code>-n</code></td><td >Don't generate any #include directives.</td></tr> <tr valign="top" class="even"><td ><code>--postfix <postfix></code></td><td >Append <code><postfix></code> to all generated classnames.</td></tr> <tr valign="top" class="odd"><td ><code>--include <file></code></td><td >Add #include <code><file></code> to the output.</td></tr> </table></div> <a name="examples"></a> <h2 id="examples">Examples</h2> <p>If you use <code>qmake</code>, <code>uic</code> will be invoked automatically for header files.</p> <p>Here are useful makefile rules if you only use GNU make:</p> <pre class="cpp"> ui_<span class="operator">%</span><span class="operator">.</span>h: <span class="operator">%</span><span class="operator">.</span>ui uic $<span class="operator"><</span> <span class="operator">-</span>o $@ </pre> <p>If you want to write portably, you can use individual rules of the following form:</p> <pre class="cpp"> ui_foo<span class="operator">.</span>h: foo<span class="operator">.</span>ui uic $<span class="operator"><</span> <span class="operator">-</span>o $@ </pre> <p>You must also remember to add <code>ui_foo.h</code> to your <code>HEADERS</code> (substitute your favorite name).</p> </div> <!-- @@@uic.html --> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="footer"> <p> <acronym title="Copyright">©</acronym> 2019 The Qt Company Ltd. Documentation contributions included herein are the copyrights of their respective owners.<br/> The documentation provided herein is licensed under the terms of the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html">GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3</a> as published by the Free Software Foundation.<br/> Qt and respective logos are trademarks of The Qt Company Ltd. in Finland and/or other countries worldwide. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. </p> </div> </body> </html>