Development/Tutorials/Programming Tutorial KDE 4/Using KConfig
Abstract
Author: Matt Williams
In this tutorial, we're going to be showing you how to utilise KConfig XT in an application. It is recommended that you read Development/Tutorials/Using KConfig XT before continuing in order to familiarise yourself with the framework.
Prerequisites
KConfig XT
At first we make new File called tutorial4.kcfg within the source directory of your project.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE kcfg SYSTEM "http://www.kde.org/standards/kcfg/1.0/kcfg.xsd">
<kcfg>
<kcfgfile name="kjotsrc"/>
<include>kglobalsettings.h</include>
<group name="kjots">
<entry name="showAction" type="Bool">
<label>Whether setupAction is called</label>
<default>true</default>
</entry>
</group>
</kcfg>
This code makes a setting of the type bool, which determines whether we want to do something. Then we set the default value to be true.
Always start the value of <entry name=""> in lower case since KConfig XT sets them to lower case within the generated headers either way. If you don't this could give you some nearly untraceable errors
Now we make a new File called tutorial4.kcfgc.
File=tutorial4.kcfg
ClassName=tutorial4
Singleton=true
Mutators=true
This should set up your configuration for now.
The Code
mainwindow.h
TODO
mainwindow.cpp
TODO
main.cpp
TODO
tutorial3ui.rc
TODO
CMake
TODO
CMakeLists.txt
PROJECT(tutorial4)
FIND_PACKAGE(KDE4 REQUIRED)
INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES( ${KDE4_INCLUDES} ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
SET(tutorial4_SRCS
main.cpp
mainwindow.cpp
)
KDE4_ADD_KCFG_FILES(tutorial4_SRCS settings.kcfgc)
KDE4_ADD_EXECUTABLE(tutorial4 ${tutorial4_SRCS})
TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES( tutorial4 ${KDE4_KDEUI_LIBS})
install( TARGETS tutorial4 DESTINATION ${BIN_INSTALL_DIR})
install( FILES tutorial4ui.rc DESTINATION ${DATA_INSTALL_DIR}/tutorial4)
install( FILES tutorial4.kcfg DESTINATION ${KCFG_INSTALL_DIR} )
Moving On
TODO