Qt Designer tutorial: Integrate custom widgets
summary
Builds a working spoiler widget (collapsible container with title and rich-text content), integrates it into Qt Designer by implementing a QDesigner plugin and shows the Designer project skeleton Qt Creator generates, which exposes custom properties like expanded/collapsed and title so changes render immediately and are saved to the .ui XML. Compares this to the promote widget approach (quicker but lacks property exposure and proper palette icon), and notes plugins must be built, deployed to the Qt plugins directory, and distributed as binaries.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:32About me
- 1:06Agenda
- 2:03Widgets
- 10:21Custom widgets
- 13:18Integrate with Qt Designer
- 15:24Qt Designer Plugin
- 15:59Plugin structure
- 17:01Widget interface
- 17:49Widget demo
- 20:18Review
- 21:24QA session
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