Qt Reference Documentation

- Qt 4.8
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# Qt's Tools

Qt is supplied with several command line and graphical tools to ease and speed the development process. Each tool is listed here with a link to its documentation.

Tool | Description
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Qt Designer | Create forms visually.
Qt Assistant | Quickly find the help you need.
Qt Linguist, lupdate, lrelease, lconvert | Translate applications to reach international markets.
qmake | Create makefiles from simple platform-independent project files (`.pro` files).
qvfb | Run and test embedded applications on the desktop.
makeqpf | Create pre-rendered fonts for embedded devices.
Meta-Object Compiler (moc) | Generate meta-object information for QObject subclasses.
User Interface Compiler (uic) | Generate C++ code from user interface files.
Resource Compiler (rcc) | Embed resources into Qt applications during the build process.
Configuring Qt (qtconfig) | X11-based Qt configuration tool with online help.
Configuring Qt Embedded (qconfig) | Qt Embedded (Linux and Windows CE) configuration tool.
Examples and Demos Launcher | A launcher for Qt's Examples and Demonstration programs.
qt3to4 - The Qt 3 to 4 Porting Tool | A tool to assist in porting applications from Qt 3 to Qt 4.
QtDBus XML compiler (qdbusxml2cpp) | A tool to convert D-Bus interface descriptions to C++ source code.
D-Bus Viewer | A tool to introspect D-Bus objects and messages.