Custom widget plugin does not show up in editor but does in preview

[wysota]

arrange the widgets, spacers and layouts in Designer and then code it manually in a text editor.

Well, then you did something wrong, because the code from your class certainly didn't look like copied from Designer. You made some widget and you didn't even put it into a layout (which was why your widget was not visible on the form and not positioned like it should).

How can I easily create plugins with designer, then?
You make a .ui file, compile it with uic, and then?

And then subclass it and write all the necessary code, like for any other widget. I don't see a difference between a regular widget and a widget put into a plugin.

You have to create the signals and slots , a plugin interface etc and I believe doing that with a texxt editor is the only way.

Well... it is not the only way, but even so, it doesn't mean you can't use Designer to design your widgets.

[hansmbakker]

i use Designer mainly for 'sketching', not for copying the code output

i like the preview feature

[wysota]

i use Designer mainly for 'sketching', not for copying the code output

Your loss

[hansmbakker]

don't forget i can't program decent in c++, i don't have time to learn it and i'm using qt for only one week now.

[wysota]

don't forget i can't program decent in c++, i don't have time to learn it and i'm using qt for only one week now.

That's another argument for using Designer and not avoiding it. It generates some of the code for you so that you don't have to do that yourself.

[hansmbakker]

That's true, but I find it harder to use the designer generated code than code everything myself (strange isn't it . Its gives me more the idea that I know what I'm doing (I know exactly which things are done which way, and I know all the classes etc), but maybe I'm making it myself too difficult.

It's a pity that there is nobody I know who knows Qt, someone that can sit next to me, someone I can confer with.

[wysota]

What exactly do you find hard? Maybe we could help you?