Development/Tutorials/Programming Tutorial KDE 4/Using KConfig

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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