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Create a basic MeeGo application

Submitted by Bob Spencer on 11 February, 2010 - 09:37

This short tutorial describes how to create a very basic Qt application for MeeGo.

Start Qt Creator

Start the New Project Wizard

  • Select menu item: File, New File or Project
  • Select Qt4 Gui Application

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Select a name and path for the project. We will call our project "HelloMeeGo"
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Click "Next" through the rest of the wizard screens.
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The project is now created. We can build and run it at this point.
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Select the main window cpp file to edit it.
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Add the highlighted lines below to your file to create a title, icon, menu, and label. For simplicity we borrow the nautilus icon.
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Build the project and run.
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Congratulations You have created your first MeeGo application.