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/*!
    \example assistant/simpletextviewer
    \title Simple Text Viewer Example

    The Simple Text Viewer example shows how you can make Qt Assistant
    act as a customized help tool for your application using the
    QAssistantClient class combined with a \l
    {assistant-manual.html#profiles}{Qt Assistant Document Profile}.

    \image simpletextviewer-example.png

    The Simple Text Viewer application allows the user to select and
    view existing files.

    The application provides its own custom documentation that is
    available through the \gui Help menu in the main window's menubar
    and through the \gui Help button in the application's find file
    dialog. The documentation files are located in a separate \c
    documentation subdirectory.

    The example consists of two classes:

    \list
        \o \c MainWindow is the main application window.
        \o \c FindFileDialog allows the user to search for
           files using wildcard matching.
    \endlist

    First we will take a look at how the QAssistantClient is
    implemented in the \c MainWindow class. At the same time we will
    see how we can make the Qt Assistant display custom documentation
    using the Qt Assistant Document Profile (\c .adp) format. Then we
    will review the \c FindFileDialog class.

    Note that we will only comment on the parts of the implementation
    that are relevant to the main issue, that is making Qt Assistant
    act as a customized help-tool for our Simple Text Viewer
    application.

    \section1 MainWindow Class Definition

    \image simpletextviewer-mainwindow.png

    The \c MainWindow class provides the main application window with
    two menus: The \gui File menu lets the user open and view an
    existing file while the \gui Help menu provides information about
    the application and about Qt, and lets the user open Qt Assistant
    displaying the application's documentation. Here is the relevant
    parts of the \c MainWindow class definition:

    \snippet examples/assistant/simpletextviewer/mainwindow.h 3

    To use Qt Assistant as an application's help tool, we must provide
    the application with a QAssistantClient object. An instance of the
    QAssistantClient class enables the application to open or close Qt
    Assistant whenever it is required. The object only interacts with
    the particular Qt Assistant instance associated with it (i.e. it
    is a one to one relationship between a QAssistantClient object and
    an instance of the Qt Assistant application).

    Note that the QAssistantClient class is not included in the Qt
    library. To use it you must add \c {CONFIG += assistant} to your
    pro file.

    \snippet examples/assistant/simpletextviewer/mainwindow.h 2

    We declare the private \c initializeAssistant() function to create
    and initialize the application's QAssistantClient object. It is a
    convenience function used when constructing the main window
    widget.

    \snippet examples/assistant/simpletextviewer/mainwindow.h 0

    To facilitate the \gui {Open Assistant} menu entry in the \gui
    Help menu we declare a private \c assistant() slot which will open
    the application's instance of Qt Assistant on user requests.

    \snippet examples/assistant/simpletextviewer/mainwindow.h 1

    Finally, we must reimplement the protected QWidget::closeEvent()
    event handler to ensure that the application's Qt Assistant
    instance is properly closed before we terminate the application.

    \section1 MainWindow Class Implementation

    The \c MainWindow constructor is straight forward. We create the
    required actions and menus, and initialize the application's
    QAssistantClient object:

    \snippet examples/assistant/simpletextviewer/mainwindow.cpp 0

    When the user select the \gui {Open Assistant} entry in the main
    window's \gui Help menu, it triggers the \c assistant() slot.

    \snippet examples/assistant/simpletextviewer/mainwindow.cpp 2

    In this slot we use the QAssistantClient::showPage() function to
    make Qt Assistant show the documentation's index page. This
    function also brings the Qt Assistant application to the
    foreground if it is hidden.

    In our example, the application's documentation is located in a
    subdirectory in the Simple Text Viewer example's directory. We use
    QLibraryInfo::location() to determine the location of Qt's example
    path (\l
    {QLibraryInfo::LibraryLocation}{QLibraryInfo::ExamplesPath}), and
    add the proper suffix specifying the index file of the
    documentation.

    The documentation set can be altered using the command line
    arguments that are passed to Qt Assistant when it is
    launched. When started without any options, Qt Assistant displays
    a default set of documentation. When Qt is installed, the default
    documentation set in Qt Assistant contains the Qt reference
    documentation as well as the tools that come with Qt, such as Qt
    Designer and \c qmake.

    In our example, we replace the default documentation set with our
    custom documentation in the \c initializeAssistant() function
    called from the constructor:

    \snippet examples/assistant/simpletextviewer/mainwindow.cpp 4

    First we create the QAssistantClient object, then we set the
    command line arguments that are applied when Qt Assistant is
    started, using the QAssistantClient::setArguments() function: The
    \c {-profile documentation/simpletextviewer.adp} arguments tell Qt
    Assistant to use the documentation set specified by the given \c
    .adp file. The \c .adp file extension is an abbreviation for \l
    {assistant-manual.html#profiles}{Qt Assistant Document Profile}.

    \table
    \header \o Qt Assistant Document Profile
    \row \o
    The \l {assistant-manual.html#profiles}{Qt Assistant Document
    Profile} is an extension of the \l
    {assistant-manual.html#documentation-content-file-format}{Documentation
    Content File}.

    Documentation can be added or removed from Qt Assistant by adding
    and removing the content files. A documentation content file must
    contain the documentation's table of contents and all important
    keywords for the index. See the \l {assistant-manual.html}{Qt
    Assistant Manual} for a more detailed description of how to write
    and use documentation contents file for Qt Assistant.

    The \l {assistant-manual.html#profiles}{Qt Assistant Document
    Profile} adds a profile tag, containing property tags, to the
    format. Using a profile, the documentation writer can change
    several of Qt Assistant's properties, for example its window title
    and start page.

    \raw HTML
    <H4><center>/documentation/simpletextviewer.adp</center></H4>
    \endraw

    \quotefile assistant/simpletextviewer/documentation/simpletextviewer.adp

    The \c simpletextviewer.adp file quoted above, describes the
    Simple Text Viewer application's documentation and consists of two
    sections: One enclosed by the \c profile tag, and another
    delimited by the \c DCF (Documentation Content File) tag. The
    latter section describes the documentation content, and defines
    the keywords that appear in the \gui Index tab in Qt Assistant's
    sidebar. The \c profile section describes the properties of our
    application's instance of Qt Assistant. Within the profile tag you
    might, for example, want to set the \c startpage which is the page
    that Qt Assistant displays by default, the \c assistantdocs which
    describes the location of the documentation (relative to the
    location of the \c .adp file) used when the user requests help
    from the \gui Search tab, and the \c title property used to
    specify a window title for Qt Assistant.

    \endtable

    \snippet examples/assistant/simpletextviewer/mainwindow.cpp 3

    When the user choose the \gui Open entry in the \gui File menu, it
    triggers the \c open() slot which will pop up a find file
    dialog. We have two options of providing help during the dialog's
    execution: We can either create a new QAssistantClient object
    within the dialog, or pass the current object to its
    constructor. By choosing the latter solution, we delimit the
    number of running Qt Assistant instances to one.

    Along with the QAssistantClient object, we also pass the current
    QTextEdit object to the \c FindFileDialog contructor to be able to
    display the selected file. Then we call the newly created dialog's
    \l {QDialog::exec()}{exec()} function, showing the dialog as a \l
    {Modal Dialogs}{modal dialog} (i.e. blocking until the user closes
    the dialog).

    \snippet examples/assistant/simpletextviewer/mainwindow.cpp 1

    When launching Qt Assistant using the QAssistantClient, the
    application is run in its own process. For that reason we must
    reimplement the QWidget::closeEvent() event handler to ensure that
    the Qt Assistant process is terminated properly before we close
    the application.

    \section1 FindFileDialog Class Definition

    \image simpletextviewer-findfiledialog.png

    The Simple Text Viewer application provides a find file dialog
    allowing the user to search for files using wildcard matching. The
    search is performed within the specified directory, and the user
    is given an option to browse the existing file system to find the
    relevant directory.

    \snippet examples/assistant/simpletextviewer/findfiledialog.h 0

    The only relevant members to observe in the \c FindFileDialog
    class definition is the private \c help() slot. The slot is
    connected to the dialog's \gui Help button, and brings the current
    Qt Assistant instance to the foreground showing the documentation
    for the dialog.

    \section1 FindFileDialog Class Implementation

    \snippet examples/assistant/simpletextviewer/findfiledialog.cpp 0
    \dots
    \snippet examples/assistant/simpletextviewer/findfiledialog.cpp 1

    In the constructor we save the references to the QAssistantClient
    and QTextEdit objects passed as arguments. The QAssistantClient
    object will be used in the \c FindFileDialog's \c help() slot as
    we will see shortly, while the QTextEdit will be used in the
    dialog's \c openFile() slot to display the chosen file.

    \snippet examples/assistant/simpletextviewer/findfiledialog.cpp 2

    The \c help() slot is called when the user clicks the dialog's
    \gui Help button. It brings the current Qt Assistant instance to
    the foreground and shows the application's manual page, using the
    QAssistantClient::showPage() function.

    \section1 Summary

    In order to make Qt Assistant act as a customized help tool for
    your application, you must provide your application with a
    QAssistantClient object in addition to a \l
    {assistant-manual.html#profiles}{Qt Assistant Document Profile}
    (\c .adp file) and documentation for the application.
*/
