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How to set name of custom widget in Qt designer?

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    ViRuSTriNiTy
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    Hello everybody,

    i did not find any remarks in the docs about this issue. I added a custom widget to Qt designer by using QDesignerCustomWidgetInterface and returned the widget class name in the QDesignerCustomWidgetInterface::name() method. Now the designer displays the class name in the widget box. But i want a more readable widget name to be displayed like "My Button". How can i achieve this?

    Thanks in advance.

    So lonG
    Daniel

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      Ok, figured it out today by having a look at the designer source code.

      The designer converts the XML returned by

      QDesignerCustomWidgetInterface::domXml()

      into

      QDesignerCustomWidgetData

      by calling

      QDesignerCustomWidgetData::parseXml()

      The parseXml() method clearly states that one have to add the attribute displayname to the widget xml tag, for example:

      @<ui language="c++" displayname="My Custom Widget">
      <widget class="..." ...>
      ...
      </widget>
      </ui>@

      So long
      Daniel

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