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In multi-window mode, you can arrange each of the tool windows to suit your working style. The main window consists of a menu bar, a tool bar, and a widget box that contains the widgets you can use to create your user interface.
![]() | Qt Designer's Main Window The menu bar provides all the standard actions for managing forms, using the clipboard, and accessing application-specific help. The current editing mode, the tool windows, and the forms in use can also be accessed via the menu bar. The tool bar displays common actions that are used when editing a form. These are also available via the main menu. The widget box provides common widgets and layouts that are used to design components. These are grouped into categories that reflect their uses or features. |
![]() | Qt Designer's Widget Box The widget box provides a selection of standard Qt widgets, layouts, and other objects that can be used to create user interfaces on forms. Each of the categories in the widget box contain widgets with similar uses or related features. Note: Since Qt 4.4, new widgets have been included, e.g., QPlainTextEdit, QCommandLinkButton, QScrollArea, QMdiArea, and QWebView. You can display all of the available objects in a category by clicking on the handle next to the category label. When in Widget Editing Mode, you can add objects to a form by dragging the appropriate items from the widget box onto the form, and dropping them in the required locations. Qt Designer provides a scratch pad feature that allows you to collect frequently used objects in a separate category. The scratch pad category can be filled with any widget currently displayed in a form by dragging them from the form and dropping them onto the widget box. These widgets can be used in the same way as any other widgets, but they can also contain child widgets. Open a context menu over a widget to change its name or remove it from the scratch pad. |
The process of laying out widgets automatically is triggered by two factors:
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Relative positioning, which is what Qt's layout classes do, is easier than manually positioning widgets and trying to handle this situation with hardcode. We do not recommend absolute positoning as Qt's layout classes already do all the magic for you under the hood. So, developers no longer have to worry about rearranging widgets for different platforms, settings and languages.
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