Development/Tutorials/Programming Tutorial KDE 4
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This is a tutorial to learn KDE programming by examples. It assumes you are working with KDE 4, not KDE 3.
Overview
- Basics:
KDE is tied together with Qt. KDE classes mostly inherit Qt classes and specify them. KDE 4 is based on QT 4, KDE 3 is based on Qt. When this tutorial introduces Qt classes, this helps you learn KDE programming.
- Know how you can get help:
Whenever you have a KDE class and want the KDE documentation for it, point your konqueror to kde:KApplication (in case you want help for the class KApplication). For the Qt class QApplication, you can point your konqueror to qt:QApplication.
- To learn KDE programming, first read this:
http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/cpp-pitfalls.html
- Get an overview about the tools you can use.
Your lessons
- First program
- How to write an HTML parser
- How to load and save configuration
- How to write Makefile.ams
- Drag-and-drop
- Command line options
- How to write sound programs
- Printing
- RC files
- How to write Kontact plugins