Here is a list of the new features available in version 1.2:

• Updated to use features in Qt 1.2. Dlgedit now requires Qt 1.2 to compile.
• Added font selection for widgets. In the old colors property page, there are now options for editing the font for the widget.
• Added graphical signal/slot connection. A list of signals available on a widget is shown and the user can type in the name of the slot to be connected to it. The slots can be either protected or publicly declared in the dialog base class. The signals are given a default method that does nothing. Since all the signals are virtual, it is easy to declare you're own signal handler in the dialog class.
• Makefile generation for projects. When you generate a project, you really generate a Makefile to put all the objects together. To support different environments for a system, a user or even a project, these Makefiles are instances of template Makefiles. DlgEdit simply fills in what sources and headers will be used in this project. All your Makefile template needs is a marker line and the rules to build up your project. A sample template is provided in the misc directory.
• Selected widgets can now be resized to the same dimensions, height, width, or both, as the last selected widget.
• The file formats have changed, again. Unfortunately, we had to update the file format for dlgedit again. The change is necessary for the projects and to allow for other objects like pixmaps and menus. A conversion perl scripe, dlgUpdate.pl, is provided in the misc directory to aid in conversion. In addition to the changes in the .dlg files, the header and source files for the dialog class will have to be changed. Apply the following changes to your dialog class files:
  • Dialog class source file:
    • Change "#define Inherited QDialog" to "#define Inherited DialogDataClass".
    • Remove TRUE parameter, if present, from Inherited constructor call.
    • Remove DialogDataClass(this) initialization.
  • Dialog class header file:
    • Remove #include of <qdialog.h>, <qwidget.h>, <qtabdlg.h>, or <qframe.h>.
    • Remove "public QDialog" inheritence.
    • Change inheritence of DialogDataClass to public.

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