[Qt-interest] icons

[John McClurkin]

Szalata, Zenon M. wrote:
> I am very new to QT.  I have installed QT 4.7 and am learning how to use 
> the designer.  I am experimenting with main window widget.  I have 
> created a main window, added a couple of menus in the menu bar.  Then I 
> wanted to add the actions which got created for the menu items to the 
> tools bar and it seems that the designer does not know where to get 
> icons that could be used with the actions.
> 
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> Looking at the directory tree where I have installed QT, I find many 
> *.png files.  How do I configure the designer to use the appropriate 
> directory containing icons? 
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> I am following the exercise in “The Book of QT4: The Art of Building QT 
> Applications” by Daniel Molkentin.  The exercise is to build a small 
> text editor.  It needs icons for New, Open, Save, Cut, Copy, Paste, etc.
> 
> When I put the Action Editor in Icon View I see only empty squares.
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> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Zen
> 
Check out the chapter "The Qt Resource System" in Qt Assistant.