Can I get rid of the *.ui files?

BDC_Patrick

Hi there..

I managed to get QT5 to run in Clion, using Cmake.

Means, I decided to do a clean code Project only, without the Usage of the QT Designer and its *.ui Files.

Sow.. I tried to search for, how I manage to use qt without the need of those files.. but all I found are masses of articles about, how to restore them, when they get deleted/lost/corrupted.. but not, how to make a Window Class without them 😅

I mean.. I can create a whole UI class.. with UI, header and source file.. but never will edit the UI.. which means.. it is a waste of space.. so..

Can someone push me in the right direction?

SGaist

Hi,

Quite a lot of examples in the Qt documentation do not make use of Designer at all. You can get started with them.

JonB

If you want to use Qt Designer to design your UI you will want to use .ui files.

You do not have to use Designer or its .ui files. You can write code to create widgets and set their attributes. That's what code examples in the Qt documentation or on the Internet show.

In fact, if you look at the files in your project, when you build it runs uic program to process the .ui files and produce a ui_....h file. That is the full C++ code to create your designer widgets. If you look through that you can see exactly what code you could write instead of using the Designer and .ui files.

BDC_Patrick

Thanks Guys.. helped me out alot :D