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**
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** Copyright (C) 2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
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** All rights reserved.
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** Contact: Nokia Corporation (qt-info@nokia.com)
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**
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** This file is part of the documentation of the Qt Toolkit.
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**
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** $QT_BEGIN_LICENSE:LGPL$
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** No Commercial Usage
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** $QT_END_LICENSE$
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/*!
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    \page uic.html
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    \title User Interface Compiler (uic)
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    \ingroup qttools
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    \keyword uic
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    \omit KEEP THIS FILE SYNCHRONIZED WITH uic.1 \endomit
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    This page documents the \e{User Interface Compiler} for the Qt GUI
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    toolkit. The \c uic reads an XML format user interface definition
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    (\c .ui) file as generated by \l{designer-manual.html}{Qt
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    Designer} and creates a corresponding C++ header file.
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    Usage:
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    \snippet doc/src/snippets/code/doc_src_uic.qdoc 0
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    \section1 Options
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    The following table lists the command-line options recognized by
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    \c uic.
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    \table
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    \header \o Option \o Description
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    \row \o \c{-o <file>} \o Write output to \c <file> instead of to standard output.
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    \row \o \c{-tr <func>} \o Use \c <func> for translating strings instead of \c tr().
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    \row \o \c{-p} \o Don't generate guards against multiple inclusion (\c #ifndef FOO_H ...).
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    \row \o \c{-h} \o Display the usage and the list of options.
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    \row \o \c{-v} \o Display \c{uic}'s version number.
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    \endtable
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    \section1 Examples
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    If you use \c qmake, \c uic will be invoked automatically for
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    header files.
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    Here are useful makefile rules if you only use GNU make:
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    \snippet doc/src/snippets/code/doc_src_uic.qdoc 1
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    If you want to write portably, you can use individual rules of the
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    following form:
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    \snippet doc/src/snippets/code/doc_src_uic.qdoc 2
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    You must also remember to add \c{ui_foo.h} to your \c HEADERS
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    (substitute your favorite name).
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*/