How to design custom widget in Designer

dheerendra

Can you look at Assistant for "Creating Custom Widgets for Designer". This will surely help you. I know you don't want to code.

Designer creates the *.h file called ui_<yourname>.h file. You can take this file and split the file as .h and .cpp.

Now you can tweak the process of doing the same.

harshilsharma63

I generated the header file from Qt Designer but it has this #include "qframe.h" that Creator is unable to find. WHat to do about this?

harshilsharma63

[quote author="Dheerendra" date="1405663472"]Can you look at Assistant for "Creating Custom Widgets for Designer". This will surely help you. I know you don't want to code.

Designer creates the *.h file called ui_<yourname>.h file. You can take this file and split the file as .h and .cpp.

Now you can tweak the process of doing the same.
[/quote]

I generated the header file from Qt Designer but it has this #include “qframe.h” that Creator is unable to find. WHat to do about this?

dheerendra

Are able to create the project with designer form and run your program ? If yes, you should find out the path in which this file exist and give the appropriate include dir path for the project.

I used Qt 5.2.x and I designed form with QFrame etc. I did not see the any qframe.h included. May be it is specific to your design.

harshilsharma63

[quote author="Dheerendra" date="1405683430"]Are able to create the project with designer form and run your program ? If yes, you should find out the path in which this file exist and give the appropriate include dir path for the project.

I used Qt 5.2.x and I designed form with QFrame etc. I did not see the any qframe.h included. May be it is specific to your design.[/quote]

What I want is a custom widget with some lables, line edits and few other components in it. This component will be used as a UI element in another Qt project. So I create a Frame in designer and included all components I want in this widget. Now I want this Frame with all the widgets it contain to be available as a separate file so that I can simply promote a Widget to this frame (containing other components) in the main project.

Shouldn't I be creating a frame in designer is this task to be done in some other way?

dheerendra

No it is right. QFrame is derived from QWidget. It should be fine. I tried to create very similar UI using the designer. My *.h files did not had any qfame.h file. Can you check with small example first ? Which version of Qt you are using ?

harshilsharma63

[quote author="Dheerendra" date="1405751248"]No it is right. QFrame is derived from QWidget. It should be fine. I tried to create very similar UI using the designer. My *.h files did not had any qfame.h file. Can you check with small example first ? Which version of Qt you are using ?[/quote]

I'm using Qt 5.3.1

I tried creating a small sample in this way-

Start Designer -> New -> Widgets -> QFrame -> create
Added a few components like sliders etc.
Form -> view code -> save the header file (ui_sadsad.h)
Created a new Qt Widgets project in Creator and added the header file obtained from Designer to this project.
In the auto-created ui file, added a Widget and promoted it to Ui_Sadsad.
Built and got error in ui_mainwondow.h-

@/********************************************************************************
** Form generated from reading UI file 'mainwindow.ui'
**
** Created by: Qt User Interface Compiler version 5.3.1
**
** WARNING! All changes made in this file will be lost when recompiling UI file!
********************************************************************************/

#ifndef UI_MAINWINDOW_H
#define UI_MAINWINDOW_H

#include <QtCore/QVariant>
#include <QtWidgets/QAction>
#include <QtWidgets/QApplication>
#include <QtWidgets/QButtonGroup>
#include <QtWidgets/QHeaderView>
#include <QtWidgets/QMainWindow>
#include <QtWidgets/QMenuBar>
#include <QtWidgets/QStatusBar>
#include <QtWidgets/QToolBar>
#include <QtWidgets/QWidget>
#include "ui_frame.h" <-------------------------------------------- this is the problem

QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE

class Ui_MainWindow
{
public:
QWidget *centralWidget;
Ui_Frame *widget;
QMenuBar *menuBar;
QToolBar *mainToolBar;
QStatusBar *statusBar;

void setupUi(QMainWindow *MainWindow)
{
    if (MainWindow->objectName().isEmpty())
        MainWindow->setObjectName(QStringLiteral("MainWindow"));
    MainWindow->resize(400, 300);
    centralWidget = new QWidget(MainWindow);
    centralWidget->setObjectName(QStringLiteral("centralWidget"));
    widget = new Ui_Frame(centralWidget);
    widget->setObjectName(QStringLiteral("widget"));
    widget->setGeometry(QRect(60, 50, 120, 80));
    MainWindow->setCentralWidget(centralWidget);
    menuBar = new QMenuBar(MainWindow);
    menuBar->setObjectName(QStringLiteral("menuBar"));
    menuBar->setGeometry(QRect(0, 0, 400, 21));
    MainWindow->setMenuBar(menuBar);
    mainToolBar = new QToolBar(MainWindow);
    mainToolBar->setObjectName(QStringLiteral("mainToolBar"));
    MainWindow->addToolBar(Qt::TopToolBarArea, mainToolBar);
    statusBar = new QStatusBar(MainWindow);
    statusBar->setObjectName(QStringLiteral("statusBar"));
    MainWindow->setStatusBar(statusBar);

    retranslateUi(MainWindow);

    QMetaObject::connectSlotsByName(MainWindow);
} // setupUi

void retranslateUi(QMainWindow *MainWindow)
{
    MainWindow->setWindowTitle(QApplication::translate("MainWindow", "MainWindow", 0));
} // retranslateUi

};

namespace Ui {
class MainWindow: public Ui_MainWindow {};
} // namespace Ui

QT_END_NAMESPACE

#endif // UI_MAINWINDOW_H
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I think stem 5 onwards I'm doinf it wrong.

harshilsharma63

Anyways, can you point me to the correct steps?

dheerendra

oh!!!. ui_frame.h file generated file. Your designer class name frame. Hence it is generating ui_frame.h file. You can remove this and do what split you want to for .h and .cpp files.

harshilsharma63

[quote author="Dheerendra" date="1405755474"]oh!!!. ui_frame.h file generated file. Your designer class name frame. Hence it is generating ui_frame.h file. You can remove this and do what split you want to for .h and .cpp files.[/quote]

But then you have error in every line that refers to Ui_Frame like line 30 and 42. It's really irritating me.