QAssistantClient(3qt)													     QAssistantClient(3qt)

NAME

       QAssistantClient - Means of using Qt Assistant as an application's help tool

SYNOPSIS

       #include <qassistantclient.h>

       Inherits QObject.

   Public Members
       QAssistantClient ( const QString & path, QObject * parent = 0, const char * name = 0 )
       ~QAssistantClient ()
       bool isOpen () const

   Public Slots
       virtual void openAssistant ()
       virtual void closeAssistant ()
       virtual void showPage ( const QString & page )

   Signals
       void assistantOpened ()
       void assistantClosed ()
       void error ( const QString & msg )

   Properties
       bool open - whether Qt Assistant is open  (read only)

DESCRIPTION

       The QAssistantClient class provides a means of using Qt Assistant as an application's help tool.

       Using Qt Assistant is simple: Create a QAssistantClient instance, then call showPage() as often as necessary to show your help pages. When
       you call showPage(), Qt Assistant will be launched if it isn't already running.

       The QAssistantClient instance can open (openAssistant()) or close (closeAssistant()) Qt Assistant whenever required. If Qt Assistant is
       open, isOpen() returns TRUE.

       One QAssistantClient instance interacts with one Qt Assistant instance, so every time you call openAssistant(), showPage() or
       closeAssistant() they are applied to the particular Qt Assistant instance associated with the QAssistantClient.

       When you call openAssistant() the assistantOpened() signal is emitted. Similarly when closeAssistant() is called, assistantClosed() is
       emitted. In either case, if an error occurs, error() is emitted.

       This class is not included in the Qt library itself. To use it you must link against libqassistantclient.so (Unix) or qassistantclient.lib
       (Windows), which is built into INSTALL/lib if you built the Qt tools (INSTALL is the directory where Qt is installed).

       See also "Adding Documentation to Qt Assistant" in the Qt Assistant manual.

MEMBER FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

QAssistantClient::QAssistantClient ( const QString & path, QObject * parent = 0, const char * name = 0 )
       Constructs an assistant client object. The path specifies the path to the Qt Assistant executable. If path is an empty string the system
       path (%PATH% or $PATH) is used.

       The assistant client object is a child of parent and is called name.

QAssistantClient::~QAssistantClient ()
       Destroys the assistant client object and frees up all allocated resources.

void QAssistantClient::assistantClosed () [signal]
       This signal is emitted when the connection to Qt Assistant is closed. This happens when the user exits Qt Assistant, or when an error in
       the server or client occurs, or if closeAssistant() is called.

void QAssistantClient::assistantOpened () [signal]
       This signal is emitted when Qt Assistant is open and the client-server communication is set up.

void QAssistantClient::closeAssistant () [virtual slot]
       Use this function to close Qt Assistant.

       See also assistantClosed().

void QAssistantClient::error ( const QString & msg ) [signal]
       This signal is emitted if Qt Assistant cannot be started or if an error occurs during the initialisation of the connection between Qt
       Assistant and the calling application. The msg provides an explanation of the error.

bool QAssistantClient::isOpen () const
       Returns TRUE if Qt Assistant is open; otherwise returns FALSE. See the "open" property for details.

void QAssistantClient::openAssistant () [virtual slot]
       This function opens Qt Assistant and sets up the client-server communiction between the application and Qt Assistant. If it is already
       open, this function does nothing. If an error occurs, error() is emitted.

       See also assistantOpened().

void QAssistantClient::showPage ( const QString & page ) [virtual slot]
       Call this function to make Qt Assistant show a particular page. The page is a filename (e.g. myhelpfile.html). See "Adding Documentation to
       Qt Assistant" in the Qt Assistant manual for further information.

       If Qt Assistant hasn't been opened, this function will open it.

   Property Documentation
bool open
       This property holds whether Qt Assistant is open.

       Get this property's value with isOpen().

SEE ALSO

       http://doc.trolltech.com/qassistantclient.html http://www.trolltech.com/faq/tech.html

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 1992-2001 Trolltech AS, http://www.trolltech.com.  See the license file included in the distribution for a complete license
       statement.

AUTHOR

       Generated automatically from the source code.

BUGS

       If you find a bug in Qt, please report it as described in http://doc.trolltech.com/bughowto.html.  Good bug reports help us to help you.
       Thank you.

       The definitive Qt documentation is provided in HTML format; it is located at $QTDIR/doc/html and can be read using Qt Assistant or with a
       web browser. This man page is provided as a convenience for those users who prefer man pages, although this format is not officially
       supported by Trolltech.

       If you find errors in this manual page, please report them to qt-bugs@trolltech.com.  Please include the name of the manual page
       (qassistantclient.3qt) and the Qt version (3.1.1).

Trolltech AS							  9 December 2002					     QAssistantClient(3qt)