Getting Started

To be able to use Qt, we need to create a QApplication object. The QApplication class controls all the event delivery and display management for all other Qt objects and widgets. We need to use the QMotif class from the Qt Motif Extension to allow QApplication and the XtAppContext to coexist.

The QApplication object must be created in the main() function. We will need to modify todo.c to compile with a C++ compiler, so we rename todo.c to todo.cpp.

Next, we add the appropriate includes for the QMotif and QApplication classes.

Next, we create the QMotif and QApplication objects. We create QMotif with a foreign XtAppContext, and we create QApplication with a foreign Display.

The next change is not yet necessary, but it is included to show that the Qt Motif Extension provides a complete integration. Normally, a Motif based program would use the XtAppMainLoop() function to run the application's event loop. This is still possible, but since we are migrating to the Qt toolkit, we prefer to use the QApplication::exec() function for running the event loop.

Since we renamed todo.c to todo.cpp, we must change the project file and rerun qmake to regenerate our Makefile. When we build our project, there are compile and link errors: we will fix these in the following section.

Migrating to C++