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HOWTO build the tabular

Since major changes to Qt are to be expected with Version 3.0, the tabular has been prepared and constantly adopted to build with the beta-versions released previously.

In principle, there should be no more than two files to be adoped from the release version:

• src/qdbttabular.h
• qdbttabular.pro

Changes to src/qdbttabular.h

Since the base-class for the tabular, QTableView is being obsoleted with Qt version 3, the default distributes requires modifiying the base-class of the internal QdbtTable-Class. This is done by commenting the line starting with #error and removing the comment before one of the following two lines, depending on the Qt-Version installed.

class QdbtTable : public
#error "Fill in the correct base name here!"
// QtTableView  // In case of Qt version 3 or greater, use this line
// QTableView   // In case of Qt less than version 3, use this line
// SORRY, this is not (yet?) possible via QTableViewSuper, since MOC does
// not behave nicely then...

Changes to qdbttabular.pro

The class QtTableView is shipped along with the Qt-3 distributions as a replacement for QTableView (which was previously shipped with Qt-1 and Qt-2). This class is not build into the Qt-Library by default. Since that, the implementation-module and header-files is being shipped with the tabular distribution and has to be activated or deactivated within the qdbttabular.pro file, to enable a successful build. Speaking plainly, the lines holding qttableview.h or qttableview.cpp have to be removed from the HEADERS or SOURCES-section within the project file.

qdbttabular.pro Project-File for Qt 3.x

[...]
                $$SRC_PREFIX/qdbtdynatip.h \
                $$SRC_PREFIX/qttableview.h
[...]
                $$SRC_PREFIX/qdbtcellselection.cpp \
                $$SRC_PREFIX/qttableview.cpp
[...]

qdbttabular.pro Project-File for Qt 2.x

[...]
                $$SRC_PREFIX/qdbtdynatip.h
#                $$SRC_PREFIX/qttableview.h
[...]
                $$SRC_PREFIX/qdbtcellselection.cpp
#                $$SRC_PREFIX/qttableview.cpp
[...]

Please note, that not only #'es have been placed within the file, by the backslashes have been removed within the previous lines as well.

Qt-Versions, which have been verified to work properly with the tabular

Successful builds have been performed on the following platforms:

2001 SEP 06

• MS Windows NT (SP5), Visual Studio 6 (SP4), Qt 2.3.1

2001 SEP 05

• Linux, gcc 3.0, Qt 3.0.0 beta 4 (new style mechanism not yet entirely supported, so that e.g. the Combo-Cell does not show its decoration, yet!)
• MacOSX (10.0.4), gcc 2.95.2, Qt OpenBeta 1 ( Header and Cascade coloring does not work corrently, yet! Problems with Header/Cascade resize grips )
• Solaris 8 x86, gcc 2.95.2, Qt 2.3.1

2001 SEP 04

• Linux, gcc 2.95.2, Qt 2.3.1
• Linux, gcc 2.95.3, Qt 2.3.1
• Linux, gcc 3.0, Qt 2.1.0
• Linux, gcc 3.0, Qt 2.2.1
• Linux, gcc 3.0, Qt 2.3.0
• Linux, gcc 3.0, Qt 2.3.1

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