Design Check

[prady]

Hi, I am new to Qt and designing an UI for my application like.. 7876.

To get a look like this, I am doing the following things..
- created a mydialog subclass from QDialog
- created vertical box layout and added menu bar & mytabwidget to it
- created mytabwidget -derived from QWidget
- created horizondal layout with two widgets added for treeview and other controls
- called mydialog subclass from main

just want to check the approach what I am doing for this design is correct.
let me know is there any better way to do this ?

Thx in advance.

[sonulohani]

If the picture above mention is the application rather than the dialog, then derive it from QMainWindow rather than QDialog. If the output that you're getting is what you want then every approach is good.

[prady]

Hi,

I changed QDialog to QMainWindow now, looks neat. In my application instead of "other controls" I need to call external application with parameters, and show the output. Is IPC is the way to achieve this ? if so I am not getting any help on this.. could anyone suggest me how to do this, even any links with example will help me.

Thx,

[sonulohani]

Hey, Use QProcess (doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7-snapshot/qprocess.html). It will call the other process.

[prady]

I want to use the called application as part for the main application, and want to work in both the application simultaneously. still I can use QProcess ?

[sonulohani]

yup that you can do it... use QProcess.....