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Saturday, May 19th 2012, 10:17am

An algorithm (= math stuff) in a message box?

Hi all.

I have created a GUI of an algorithm with Qt (what a great experience!). I have a button HELP that opens a massage box in which I would like to write the algorithm, that is ... a lot of not friendly mathematical formulas.
Which is the best way to do that?
My possible solutions are:
(1) to write down the algorithm with html, even if html is not very suitable for math.
(2) to include an image in the box, but I do not really know how to that and which the images that are allowed: for example could I include a pdf?
(3) is it possible to use a pdf instead of the message box? I mean, I click the button and a pdf is opened with a pdf reader.

Thank you for any suggestion. Have a good day.

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Saturday, May 19th 2012, 2:47pm

to add an image, us QLabel and setPixmap(...);

if you want to view pdf, you will need another library - look here http://doc.qt.nokia.com/qq/qq27-poppler.html


You may need to make your own QDialog as I think the ready made MessageBoxs only cater for text
If you have a problem, CUT and PASTE your code. Do not retype or simplify it. Give a COMPLETE and COMPILABLE example of your problem. Otherwise we are all guessing the problem from a fabrication where relevant details are often missing.

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Monday, May 21st 2012, 10:27am

OK, thank you. I'll try to make an image from my pdf and then arrange it in a qdialog (I guess you're right, qmessagebox is only for text)
Thank you!

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