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--- qt:icons [2011/05/13 16:55] – [Custom theme using QIcon::fromTheme()] mithat
+++ qt:icons [2011/05/13 17:01] (current) – [Creating a Qt Resource for the theme] mithat
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 ===== Custom theme using  QIcon::fromTheme() =====
-The static function ''QIcon::fromTheme()'' used above can also be used with custom, locally defined icon themes that are placed into Qt Resource files((This idea comes from http://tkrotoff.blogspot.com/2010/02/qiconfromtheme-under-windows.html)). Themes built and defined this way can be used across all platforms. To accomplish this we need to do three things: Create a custom icon theme, create a Qt Resource with the theme, and implement the code needed to use the custom theme.
+The static function ''QIcon::fromTheme()'' used above can also be used with custom, locally defined icon themes that are placed into Qt Resource files((This idea comes from http://tkrotoff.blogspot.com/2010/02/qiconfromtheme-under-windows.html)). Themes defined this way can be used across all platforms. To accomplish this we need to do three things: Create a custom icon theme, create a Qt Resource with the theme, and implement the code needed to use the custom theme.
 To describe the process, I will use an example of a custom theme that provides icons in a variety of sizes for our example application. The icons themselves are taken from the raucously popular, public domain Tango Project((http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Desktop_Project)) using files provided in Ubuntu's 10.10 tango-icon-theme package((http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/tango-icon-theme)). Because unlike Bill Bruford I am not good at naming things((Bruford, Bill. "Who Managed the Manager?" In //Bill Bruford: the autobiography : Yes, King Crimson, Earthworks, and more.// London: Jawbone Press, 2009. 60-72. )), I call the custom theme, "TangoMFK".
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-Once you have created the ''*.qrc'' file with the needed content, you will need to add it to your project. In Qt Creator, right-click the name of the project, select //Add Existing Files...//, and add the ''*.qrc'' file. After doing this, you can use Qt Creator's GUI-based resource manager to verify that all the icons have been correctly included.
+Once you have created the ''*.qrc'' file with the required content, you will need to add it to your project. In Qt Creator, right-click the name of the project, select //Add Existing Files...//, and add the ''*.qrc'' file. After doing this, you can use Qt Creator's GUI-based resource manager to verify that all the icons have been correctly included.
 Note that in the set of icons I drew from, there were no 48x48 icons. To maintain best compatibility with Windows OSes, you ideally should include 48x48 icons as well((See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms997636.aspx for a discussion of Windows XP icons and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511280.aspx for Windows 7.)).
-The pros and cons associated with this approach are essentially identical to [[#Explicitly build and bind icons at runtime]] above, but there is one important difference: you cannot combine this approach with [[#Custom theme using  QIcon::fromTheme()]] because the setting of icon themes is [[MainWindow-setActionIcon|dynamic]]: the last theme name you set is the theme with which all icons will be rendered.
+The pros and cons associated with this approach are essentially identical to [[#Explicitly build and bind icons at runtime]] above. There is, however, one important difference: you cannot combine this approach with the [[#Custom theme using  QIcon::fromTheme()]] approach because the setting of icon themes is [[MainWindow-setActionIcon|dynamic]]: the last theme name you set is the theme with which all icons will be rendered.
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