[Interest] Built in DataBase for Qt 4.8.4

[Robert Hairgrove]

On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 12:33 -0400, Michael Jackson wrote:
> On Apr 25, 2013, at 12:18 PM, Robert Hairgrove wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 12:12 -0400, Michael Jackson wrote:
> >> Is there any "built in" or "In Memory" database structures that are already in Qt 4.8? I have a need for some light searching of our documentation and my idea was to generate an "in-memory" database table that the built in QSQL stuff could use to generate the results from?
> >> 
> >> 3rd Party libs maybe?
> > 
> > SQLite has in-memory databases ... and there has been an interface for
> > SQLite in QtSql for a long time, IIRC.
> > 
> > There is also the QSettings class which might provide all the
> > functionality you need.
> > 
> > What format do you use to store the documentation?
> > 
> 
> Just to be clear, is SQLite part of the normal Qt compile or do I need to download SQLite and compile that? I am really new to this part of Qt so be kind. ;-)

I have only used the source code build of Qt, but there is always some
slightly older version of SQLite included in the source.

If SQLite is available on your client platform as a shared library, you
might need to be careful with the Qt build options. For example, this is
almost always true on Mac platforms. On Windows and Linux, not
necessarily so.

> Currently we write the raw documentation in Markdown and have DOxygen convert it to HTML that is included with the app. We have a single button that the user clicks and then we use QDesktop to launch their web browser pointing to the main documentation page.

Look at the QAssistant interface. This is very good at giving your
application the required help functionality if your docs are already in
HTML format.