Class name mismatch when creating custom widget from QtDesigner
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I am coding a plugin for the Designer to add some widgets I have created. Before adding the code, I created the project through File -> New Project -> Other Project -> Qt Custom Designer Widget.
If I add a custom widget that inherits straight from QWidget, i.e. QWidget -> MyWidget, it shows nicely in the Designer. But most of my widgets does not inherit directly from QWidget. Instead, they inherit from a custom base class that implements some shared functionality, e.g. QWidget -> MyScale -> MyCompass.
When this happens, although MyCompass is shown correctly by the Designer, a dialog appears with the message: "Designer: A class name mismatch occurred when creating a widget using the custom widget factory registered for widgets of class MyCompass. It returned a widget of class MyScale.
If I check the UI file generated by the Designer, it really registers the widget as MyScale, instead of MyCompass.
How can I fix this?
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I encountered the same error and found the solution in this other post. I was missing the Q_OBJECT macro in the class that I was creating the plugin for.
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@apalomer Do you really think it's worth answering to a thread which is already 6 years old?
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Yes, I do think so. This post was what I was finding as the first suggested link all the time regardless of how I formulated my question to google. I assumed many others may encounter this helpful, hence, I decided to post an answer. Moreover, the error has not changed through the years (the post where I found the answer is from August 2008), therefore, I find the question still valid and needed an answer.
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@apalomer Tankes for your anwser. you are a good man
