Solved : Problems using QGLWidget as base to promote to own class
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Hi all!
To add some graph plotting to a widget I want to use QGLWidget as base widget in designer and promote to my own derived class. But QGLWidget does not show up in the list. So I tried to promote from QWidget directly but the resulting code does not compile.
As i presume the error is somewhere else, (i am exporting my code into a library first), my first question is:- is the way i described it the way it should work (e.g. use of the base class should work, too?)
And secondly: - why is QGLWidget not available for selection to promote from in design mode? (using QtCreator2.8.1).
any help would be appreciated.
- is the way i described it the way it should work (e.g. use of the base class should work, too?)
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In Designer you can use a QWidget as a placeholder and RMB on it to promote it as explained "in this article":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/designer-using-custom-widgets.html
I haven't done it with QGLwidget myself though, but should work.
hope this helps
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Ok, thx.
So i'll check for the library inclusion first.
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Hmm. I found that the linker explicitly seeks for a directly QWidget-derived class, so without being able to choose QGLWidget as base, I think I will not be able to use the designer ui-file and thus need to code the ui manually again :-(.
Is it generally impossible to promote through more than one level of inheritance?EDIT:
After finding out some more about the use of libraries under Qt,Win32 and MSVC, I can confirm that use of QWidget as placeholder is possible, so multiple levels of inheritance work here and designer can be used as I hoped without knowing the one-below-top-level derived class.
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Thanks for confirming your findings to the forum
happy coding!
