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        "# GUI icons from resources\n\nDemostration to show a ui file, that contains icons from a qrc / rcc\nresource file.\n\nTo create the ui file, you need at first the icons and the index\nfile qrc, that lists all the icons and gives them a unique path.\n\nThis qrc file then must be compiled together with the contained\nicons to a rcc resource file using the rcc binary (shipped with itom).\n\nFor instance, to compile the qrc file in the icons subfolder to\na rcc file in this folder, navigate a command line to the icons\nsubfolder and apply\n\n..code-block:: bat\n\n    rcc -binary myIconResource.qrc -o ../myIconResource.rcc\n\nThen, the resource file must be loaded first into itom before opening\nthe ui.\n"
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        "import itom\nfrom itom import ui\n\n\n\n# load the resource file, such that the contained icons can be used in future UIs\nitom.registerResource(\"myIconResource.rcc\")\n\n# load the UI (open the UI in QtDesigner to see how the icons are assigned there)\ngui = ui(\"gui_with_icons_from_resource.ui\", type=ui.TYPEWINDOW)\n\n# show the UI (no functionality at all)\ngui.show()"
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        "<img src=\"file://../../_static/demoGUIIconsResources_1.png\" width=\"50%\">\n\n"
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