davidgould
8th July 2010, 20:17
I am transitioning over to Qt4 from another embedded GUI product where I can re-skin a UI without recompiling any code. There is an engine that runs on the target. And a tool that allows me to create a GUI skin - the look/feel UI such as widget colors, location of buttons, etc. Then I write application code to hook the skin into the engine running on the target. So the 3 are all separate, the engine, the GUI skin and the application code.
I can reskin (or rebrand) an application without recompiling the engine or the application code. Meaning I can replace the GUI skin on the fly, just drop it onto the target.
2 questions:
A) Trying to determine if and how I can do that with QT.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
B) Does QT have the notion of a separate GUI skin where all the UI elements (button, images, color settings, etc.) are all contained in one single binary file. I see a file called the ".ui" file, but this looks like XML and so I do not believe that it contains images, etc. I am trying to determine if QT rolls the entire look.feel (GUI) into one file where I can move it from project to project?
Thanks so much for any help,
Dave
I can reskin (or rebrand) an application without recompiling the engine or the application code. Meaning I can replace the GUI skin on the fly, just drop it onto the target.
2 questions:
A) Trying to determine if and how I can do that with QT.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
B) Does QT have the notion of a separate GUI skin where all the UI elements (button, images, color settings, etc.) are all contained in one single binary file. I see a file called the ".ui" file, but this looks like XML and so I do not believe that it contains images, etc. I am trying to determine if QT rolls the entire look.feel (GUI) into one file where I can move it from project to project?
Thanks so much for any help,
Dave