KPhotoAlbum Documentation

Welcome to the KPhotoAlbum source code documentation, which is generated with doxygen. To generate your own copy, simply run doxygen in the kphotoalbum source directory.

A few related pages that you should read:

• Coding Standards
• Phrase book
• Common Tasks

KPhotoAlbum is split into a number of modules, each module is a directory of its own on the hard disk and a namespace in the source code. The following is a list of modules:

Main GUI component

• MainWindow - The main window and associated dialogs.
• Browser - This is the browser where you narrow your way to the image you want to see.
• ThumbnailView - The thumbnail viewer.
• Viewer - The image/video viewer.
• AnnotationDialog - This is the dialog where you tag your images (the one you get to using Ctrl+1 and Ctrl+2).
• DateBar - The date bar at the bottom of the main screen.

Other GUI components

• ImportExport - Import/Export dialog and asscociated classes.
• Settings - The Settings dialog and backend classes.
• HTMLGenerator - The buildin HTML generator.
• CategoryListView - This is the tree view used in the annotation dialog.
• Exif - Exif related dialog and backend classes

Database backend

• DB The abstract interface for the database backend.
• XMLDB The XML based database backend.
• SQLDB The SQL based database backend - still not released.

Backend

• ImageManager - Thumbnail loader
• Plugins - KIPI plug-in management
• Utilities - Miscellaneous utility classes