some objects created in Designer not visible in editor

[mzimmers]

Hi all -

I know I've seen this problem before, but I reviewed my prior posts and couldn't find anything on it.

I'll let the pictures explain:

but:

The editor recognizes some but not all of the elements I've created in Designer. Where did I go wrong? I've run qmake, done a clean, and all that good stuff.

Thanks.

[SGaist]

Hi,

Just in case, did you check the content of the UI xml ?

[mzimmers]

@SGaist yes, it's in there:

    <item>
      <widget class="QLineEdit" name="lineEditSerialNbr">
       <property name="font">
        <font>
         <pointsize>10</pointsize>
        </font>
       </property>
      </widget>
     </item>

[jsulm]

@mzimmers said in some objects created in Designer not visible in editor:

I've run qmake, done a clean, and all that good stuff.

You mean you rebuild?
Also, if you write the member name manually: does it compile?

[J.Hilk]

@mzimmers said in some objects created in Designer not visible in editor:

I've run qmake, done a clean, and all that good stuff.

have you also deleted your shadow build folder? sometimes that works magic as well 😉

Also, when you're at it, delete your pro.file *.pro.user (when the project is closed) and open it clean.

Those 2 steps at the very least always solved the issue for me

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Edit fixed misleading file name

[SGaist]

@J-Hilk said in some objects created in Designer not visible in editor:

Also, when you're at it, delete your pro.file (when the project is closed) and open it clean.

Did you meant the .pro.user file ?

[J.Hilk]

@SGaist yes I do, my bad🙈

[mzimmers]

Thanks for all the suggestions. In response to jsulm, no, I hadn't done a rebuild -- this morning, I tried that, and it worked! (I hadn't yet tried any of the other suggestions like deleting the shadow build or my .pro.user file.

I'd really love to hear an explanation as to how a rebuild could fix this problem. Rebuild must do more than I realized.

Anyway, I think this one is resolved...thanks again, all.

[artwaw]

@mzimmers I have this problem from time to time, especially when I make lots of small changes to the UI and the code without rebuilding. What helps, is to force "clean project" (or subproject, depends what you work on) and then run qmake again (options accessible from Build menu).

[mzimmers]

@artwaw thanks for the suggestion. I'd tried a clean and run qmake (in that order) with no success. The missing step (for me, anyway) was the rebuild command.