Adding Ui created widget into manually created main widget

I have a main widget derived from QWidget which I designed by manually coding. I was wondering if there is a way to add QtDesigner widget (ui) class to the main widget using addWidget function, or some other means. When I try to do addWidget in the MyMainWindow() function the program compiles fine, but the ui widget does not display. Thanks.


class MyMainWindow: public QWidget
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
int count;
MyCurve *c;
inputs *in; //ui designed widget
matrixVector A;
QHBoxLayout *layout;
QLineEdit *value;
QLineEdit *g1;
QLineEdit *g2;

MyMainWindow();
QMenu *fileMenu;
QMenuBar *menuBar;
QAction *openAction;
QAction *saveAction;


};

The class generated from the .ui file is not a widget itself, it contains setup code for a widget's content.

So what you do is create a QWidget subclass, have a member of the type of the generated class, and call its setupUi( this ) in the widget subclass' constructor.

As a very, very, dirty hack you could also just instantiate a QWidget instance and call the UI class setupUi method passing that widget instance.

Cheers,
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Designer created widgets are regular widgets that adhere to every rule code-created widgets adhere to. Which means you can use it any way you want. Just remember that what Designer creates is not really a widget, but rather a class that needs to be deployed on a widget by calling setupUi().

Thanks for the replies. I do have the setupUi(this) in the constructor.

inputs::inputs(QWidget *parent) :QWidget(parent), ui(new Ui::inputs)
{
ui->setupUi(this);
}

In the mainWidget constructor , I do
in=new inputs(this);
QHBoxLayout *lh= new QHBoxLayout;
lv->addWidget(logo);
lh->addWidget(in);

But nothing shows on the screen. Is there something else needed?
Thanks.

You need to tell the layout what it is supposed to operate on (e.g. pass "this" to its constructor).