JariV
15th February 2009, 22:38
Hi,
I'm trying to develop graphic interface with Designer for an embedded Linux device with a small touch-screen. I come from graphics background, with very little programming skills, but I'm working together with a programmer, who will take care of the actual programming. I've browsed through the documentation and some Qt books, but I still seem to be missing some basic concepts, so I'd really appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction with the following questions.
The device in question will have a small fixed-size interface (full-screen) with a few subcategories (so there will be no need for the resizing capabilities). There will be one main navigation display, which will be used to navigate to other screens, which will take over the whole screen (quite similar to most navigators). Each of these sub-windows have different functionality. What I seem to be missing how to construct the ui-file so, that it is easy to design/preview all the individual screens and navigation between them (10-15 different screens), and to produce abovementioned one-screen-at-a-time interface.
Should one ui-document contain all screens as separate widgets side by side, and then set the visibility of the widgets using setVisible(true/false) statements and then center the visible widget in the window? Or would it be better to have each screen as a separate ui-file?
Thanks in advance,
JariV
I'm trying to develop graphic interface with Designer for an embedded Linux device with a small touch-screen. I come from graphics background, with very little programming skills, but I'm working together with a programmer, who will take care of the actual programming. I've browsed through the documentation and some Qt books, but I still seem to be missing some basic concepts, so I'd really appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction with the following questions.
The device in question will have a small fixed-size interface (full-screen) with a few subcategories (so there will be no need for the resizing capabilities). There will be one main navigation display, which will be used to navigate to other screens, which will take over the whole screen (quite similar to most navigators). Each of these sub-windows have different functionality. What I seem to be missing how to construct the ui-file so, that it is easy to design/preview all the individual screens and navigation between them (10-15 different screens), and to produce abovementioned one-screen-at-a-time interface.
Should one ui-document contain all screens as separate widgets side by side, and then set the visibility of the widgets using setVisible(true/false) statements and then center the visible widget in the window? Or would it be better to have each screen as a separate ui-file?
Thanks in advance,
JariV