<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <!-- /home/gvatteka/dev/qt-4.3/doc/src/uic.qdoc --> <head> <title>User Interface Compiler (uic)</title> <link href="classic.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <h1 align="center">User Interface Compiler (uic)<br /><small></small></h1> <a name="uic"></a><p>This page documents the <i>User Interface Compiler</i> for the Qt GUI toolkit. The <tt>uic</tt> reads an XML format user interface definition (<tt>.ui</tt>) file as generated by <a href="designer-manual.html">Qt Designer</tt></a> and creates a corresponding C++ header file.</p> <p>Usage:</p> <pre> uic [options] <uifile></pre> <a name="options"></a> <h2>Options</h2> <p>The following table lists the command-line options recognized by <tt>uic</tt>.</p> <p><table align="center" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" border="0"> <thead><tr valign="top" class="qt-style"><th>Option</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead> <tr valign="top" class="odd"><td><tt>-o <file></tt></td><td>Write output to <tt><file></tt> instead of to standard output.</td></tr> <tr valign="top" class="even"><td><tt>-tr <func></tt></td><td>Use <tt><func></tt> for translating strings instead of <tt>tr()</tt>.</td></tr> <tr valign="top" class="odd"><td><tt>-p</tt></td><td>Don't generate guards against multiple inclusion (<tt>#ifndef</tt> FOO_H ...).</td></tr> <tr valign="top" class="even"><td><tt>-h</tt></td><td>Display the usage and the list of options.</td></tr> <tr valign="top" class="odd"><td><tt>-v</tt></td><td>Display <tt>uic</tt>'s version number.</td></tr> </table></p> <a name="examples"></a> <h2>Examples</h2> <p>If you use <tt>qmake</tt>, <tt>uic</tt> will be invoked automatically for header files.</p> <p>Here are useful makefile rules if you only use GNU make:</p> <pre> ui_%.h: %.ui uic $< -o $@</pre> <p>If you want to write portably, you can use individual rules of the following form:</p> <pre> ui_foo.h: foo.ui uic $< -o $@</pre> <p>You must also remember to add <tt>ui_foo.h</tt> to your <tt>HEADERS</tt> (substitute your favorite name).</p> <p /><address><hr /><div align="center"> <table width="100%" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr class="address"> <td width="30%">Copyright © 2007 <a href="trolltech.html">Trolltech</a></td> <td width="40%" align="center"><a href="trademarks.html">Trademarks</a></td> <td width="30%" align="right"><div align="right">Qt Jambi </div></td> </tr></table></div></address></body> </html>