Help System▲
These classes provide online-help for your application, with three levels of detail:
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Tool Tips and Status Bar message - flyweight help, extremely brief, entirely integrated in the user interface, requiring little or no user interaction to invoke.
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What's This? - lightweight, but can be a three-paragraph explanation.
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Online Help - can encompass any amount of information, but is typically slower to call up, somewhat separated from the user's work, and often users feel that using online help is a digression from their real task.
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QHelpEvent: The QHelpEvent class provides an event that is used to request helpful information about a particular point in a widget.
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QStatusBar: The QStatusBar class provides a horizontal bar suitable for presenting status information.
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QStatusTipEvent: The QStatusTipEvent class provides an event that is used to show messages in a status bar.
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QToolTip: The QToolTip class provides tool tips (balloon help) for any widget.
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QWhatsThis: The QWhatsThis class provides a simple description of any widget, i.e. answering the question "What's This?".
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QWhatsThisClickedEvent: The QWhatsThisClickedEvent class provides an event that can be used to handle hyperlinks in a "What's This?" text.