Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Finally, we have to add the on_exitButton_clicked method declaration to mainwindow.h if it's not already added."

A block of code is set as follows:

QApplication a(argc, argv); 
QTranslator translator; 
bool result = translator.load("QtLinguistExample-epo.qm"); 
a.installTranslator(&translator); 
return a.exec(); 

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

QApplication a(argc, argv); 
QTranslator translator; 
bool result = translator.load("QtLinguistExample-epo.qm"); 
a.installTranslator(&translator); 
return a.exec(); 

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

# % lupdate -pro .\QtLinguistExample.pro –ts .\QtLinguistExample-epo.ts

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "In Qt Creator, select New File or Project… from the File menu."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.