The document contents commands identify parts of the documentation, parts with a special rendering, conceptual meaning or function.

\quotation

The \quotation and \endquotation commands delimit a long quotation.

The text in the delimited block is surrounded by <blockquote> and </blockquote> in the html output, e.g.:

/*!
  Although the prospect of a significantly broader market is
  good news for Firstlogic, the notion also posed some
  challenges. Dave Dobson, director of technology for the La
  Crosse, Wisconsin-based company, said:

  \quotation
     As our solutions were being adopted into new
     environments, we saw an escalating need for easier
     integration with a wider range of enterprise
     applications.
  \endquotation
*/

The text in the \quotation block will appear in the generated HTML as:

<blockquote>
  <p>As our solutions were being adopted into new environments,
  we saw an escalating need for easier integration with a wider
  range of enterprise applications.</p>
</blockquote>

The built-in style sheet for most browsers will render the contents of the <blockquote> tag with left and right indentations. The example above would be rendered as:

As our solutions were being adopted into new environments, we saw an escalating need for easier integration with a wider range of enterprise applications.

But you can redefine the <blockquote> tag in your style.css file.

\footnote

The \footnote and \endfootnote commands delimit a footnote.

The footnote is rendered at the bottom of the page.

\note

The \note command defines a new paragraph preceded by "Note:" in bold.

\tableofcontents

The \tableofcontents command has been disabled because QDoc now generates a table of contents automatically.

The automatically generated table of contents appears in the upper righthand corner of the page.

\brief

The \brief command introduces a one-sentence description of any of the Topic Commands.

The brief text is used to introduce the documentation of the associated object, and in lists generated using the \generatelist command and the \annotatedlist command.

The brief text will be displayed in the documentation for that particular topic.

For example the boolean QWidget::isWindow property:

/*!
   \property QWidget::isActiveWindow
   \brief Whether this widget's window is the active window.

   The active window is the window that contains the widget that
   has keyboard focus.

   When popup windows are visible, this property is \c true
   for both the active window \e and the popup.

   \sa activateWindow(), QApplication::activeWindow()
*/

and the QWidget::geometry property

/*!
   \property QWidget::geometry
   \brief The geometry of the widget relative to its parent and
   excluding the window frame.

   When changing the geometry, the widget, if visible,
   receives a move event (moveEvent()) and/or a resize
   event (resizeEvent()) immediately.

   ...

  \sa frameGeometry(), rect(), ...
*/

QDoc renders this as:

geometry : QRect

This property holds the geometry of the widget relative to its parent and excluding the window frame.

...

Access functions:

• const QRect & geometry () const
• void setGeometry ( int x, int y, int w, int h )
• void setGeometry ( const QRect & )

See also frameGeometry(), rect(), ...

When the \brief command is used to describe a class, we recommend using a complete sentence like this:

The <classname> class is|provides|contains|specifies...

/*!
   \class PreviewWindow
   \brief The PreviewWindow class is a custom widget
          displaying the names of its currently set
          window flags in a read-only text editor.

   The PreviewWindow class inherits QWidget. The widget
   displays the names of its window flags set with the
   setWindowFlags() function. It is also provided with a
   QPushButton that closes the window.

   ...

   \sa QWidget
*/

QDoc renders this as:

PreviewWindow Class Reference

The PreviewWindow class is a custom widget displaying the names of its currently set window flags in a read-only text editor. More...

Properties

• 52 properties inherited from QWidget
• 1 property inherited from QObject

Public Functions

• PreviewWindow(QWidget *parent = 0)
• void setWindowFlags(Qt::WindowFlags flags)

• 183 public functions inherited from QWidget
• 28 public functions inherited from QObject

Public Slots

• 17 public slots inherited from QWidget
• 1 public slot inherited from QObject

Additional Inherited Members

• 1 signal inherited from QWidget
• 1 signal inherited from QObject
• 4 static public members inherited from QWidget
• 4 static public members inherited from QObject
• 39 protected functions inherited from QWidget
• 7 protected functions inherited from QObject

---

Detailed Description

The PreviewWindow class is a custom widget displaying the names of its currently set window flags in a read-only text editor.

The PreviewWindow class inherits QWidget. The widget displays the names of its window flags set with the setWindowFlags() function. It is also provided with a QPushButton that closes the window.

...

See also QWidget.

---

Member Function Documentation

PreviewWindow(QWidget *parent = 0)

Constructs a preview window widget with parent.

setWindowFlags(Qt::WindowFlags flags)

Sets the widgets flags using the QWidget::setWindowFlags() function.

Then runs through the available window flags, creating a text that contains the names of the flags that matches the flags parameter, displaying the text in the widgets text editor.

Using \brief in a \namespace:

/*!
   \namespace Qt

   \brief The Qt namespace contains miscellaneous identifiers
   used throughout the Qt library.
*/

Using \brief in a \headerfile:

/*!
   \headerfile <QtGlobal>
   \title Global Qt Declarations

   \brief The <QtGlobal> header file provides basic
   declarations and is included by all other Qt headers.

   \sa <QtAlgorithms>
*/

See also \property, \class, \namespace and \headerfile.

\legalese

The \legalese and \endlegalese commands delimit a license agreement.

In the generated HTML, the delimited text is surrounded by a <div class="LegaleseLeft"> and </div> tags.

An example of a license agreement enclosed in \legalese and \endlegalese:

/*!
    \legalese
        Copyright 1996 Daniel Dardailler.

        Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this
        software for any purpose is hereby granted without fee,
        provided that the above copyright notice appear in all
        copies and that both that copyright notice and this
        permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and
        that the name of Daniel Dardailler not be used in
        advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the
        software without specific, written prior permission. Daniel
        Dardailler makes no representations about the suitability of
        this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is"
        without express or implied warranty.

        Modifications Copyright 1999 Matt Koss, under the same
        license as above.
    \endlegalese
*/

It will appear in the generated HTML as:

<div class="LegaleseLeft">
   <p>Copyright 1996 Daniel Dardailler.</p>
   <p>Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell
   this software for any purpose is hereby granted without fee,
   provided that the above copyright notice appear in all
   copies and that both that copyright notice and this
   permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and
   that the name of Daniel Dardailler not be used in
   advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the
   software without specific, written prior permission. Daniel
   Dardailler makes no representations about the suitability of
   this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is"
   without express or implied warranty.</p>

   <p>Modifications Copyright 1999 Matt Koss, under the same
   license as above.</p>
</div>

If the \endlegalese command is omitted, QDoc will process the \legalese command but considers the rest of the documentation page as the license agreement.

Ideally, the license text is located with the licensed code.

Elsewhere, the documentation identified as \legalese command can be accumulated using \generatelist with legalese as the argument. This is useful for generating an overview of the license agreements associated with the source code.

\warning

The \warning command prepends "Warning:" to the command's argument, in bold font.

/*!
   Qt::HANDLE is a platform-specific handle type
   for system objects. This is  equivalent to
   \c{void *} on Windows and macOS, and to
   \c{unsigned long} on X11.

   \warning Using this type is not portable.
*/

QDoc renders this as:

Qt::HANDLE is a platform-specific handle type for system objects. This is equivalent to void * on Windows and macOS, and to unsigned long on X11.

Warning: Using this type is not portable.