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Window System Specific Notes

Qt is a cross-platform GUI toolkit, so almost the entire API is the same on all platforms and window systems. If you wish to use platform-specific features, and still maintain a platform-independent source tree, you should protect the platform-specific code using the appropriate #ifdef directives (see below).

Qt provides a few low-level global functions for fine-tuning applications on specific platforms. See Special-Purpose Global Functions Exported by Qt for details.

For information about which platforms are supported by Qt, see the Platform Notes. For information on distributing Qt applications, see Deploying Qt Applications.

Qt/X11

When compiling for this platform, the macro Q_WS_X11 is defined.

Not documented here. Please contact Trolltech Technical Support if you have queries.

Qt/X11 Dependencies

NameLibraryNotesConfiguration options
QtGuilibQtGuiQtGui
QtCore libQtCore QtCore (non-user interface features)
XRender libXrender X Rendering Extension; used for anti-aliasing-xrender or auto-detected
Xrandr libXrandr X Resize and Rotate Extension-xrandr or auto-detected
Xcursor libXcursor X Cursor Extension-xcursor or auto-detected
Xfixes libXfixes X Fixes Extension-xfixes or auto-detected
Xinerama libXinerama Multi-head support-xinerama or auto-detected
Xt libXext Xt Intrinsics
Xext libXext X Extensions
X11 libX11 X Window System
SM libSM X Session Management-sm or auto-detected
ICE libICE Inter-Client Exchange-sm or auto-detected
glib libglib-2.0 Common event loop handling-glib or auto-detected
pthread libpthread Multithreading

Note: You must compile with XRender support to get alpha transparency support for pixmaps and images.

Qt/Windows

When compiling for this platform, the macro Q_WS_WIN is defined.

Not documented here. Please contact Trolltech Technical Support if you have queries.

Qt/Mac OS X

When compiling for this platform, the macro Q_WS_MAC is defined.

Qtopia Core (Qt for Embedded Linux)

When compiling for this platform, the macro Q_WS_QWS is defined (the window system is literally the Qt Window System). See the Qtopia Core documentation for more information.


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