Custom Widgets in Qt

In this, I’ll be writing about the things I’ve learned during implementing the UI of MDSAGV with the help of Custom widgets.

Useful Links:

• https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/designer-creating-custom-widgets.html
• For distinguishing between Qt plugin and Widget: this
• This one is useful for general Qt, providing all Macros used in custom classes. This
• an example of custom plugin
• qt_add_plugin

• Did you know you can start Qt-Creator from Command Line. You can use this to set custom plugin paths for qt designer plugin in qt creator.

    \path\to\qt\installation_Directory\Tools\QtCreator\bin\qtcreator.exe -h
  

• For adding the ui file to a class and .h file in the project directory, You kneed to promote the plugin/custom widget in QT-Designer to that class

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Useful Videos:

• Custom Widget in Qt, Iranian Guy
• A more Practical Video, fat Guy

Useful Tricks

• Use <alt><shift>r to view your widget’s [preview], kinda works like Qml Live.
• for using _s string formats, see this https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qt-literals-stringliterals.html

Recipe for making custom widgets: