Thank you! That might be what I want. I'll check it out on Monday. > On Aug 16, 2019, at 3:24 PM, Israel Brewster <ijbrews...@alaska.edu> wrote: > > On Aug 14, 2019, at 1:06 PM, John Weeks <j...@wavemetrics.com> wrote: >> >> I have a moderately complex window (more than 50 QWidget- and >> QLayout-derived components). I have decided that it would be nice to have >> two versions: a vertical layout and a horizontal layout. But it's not just a >> matter of QVBoxLayout vs QHBoxLayout. >> >> I have developed a new .ui file with the vertical layout and the appropriate >> rearrangement of the widgets. All the widgets are the same, with the same >> names. The QLayout-derived items are different, but my code doesn't need to >> access them. >> >> It would be great if I could instantiate one or the other of these layouts >> at run-time and get back a pointer (or something?) that I could use instead >> of the usual ui-> pointer. The members that I need to reference all have the >> same names in the two .ui files. Seems like there should be a C++ template >> way to do this, but I'm not as clever with that kind of stuff as I might be. >> >> Has anyone developed a solution to this? Or do I need to make a wrapper >> class that has an accessor function for each of the widgets? That would be a >> pain to implement, and a source of bugs in the future when I change the >> layouts. >> >> Any ideas greatly appreciated. >> >> -John Weeks >> > > It sounds like you may be looking for the QUiLoader Class > (https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/quiloader.html)? Create an empty QMainWindow (in > code), then at runtime in the constructor of said window load the proper UI > file using the QUILoader (what it loads is your ui-> pointer), and use the > setCentralWidget() method of the window to set the widgets from the UI file > into the window. I think that’s how it goes :-) > > --- > Israel Brewster > Software Engineer > Alaska Volcano Observatory > Geophysical Institute - UAF > 2156 Koyukuk Drive > Fairbanks AK 99775-7320 > Work: 907-474-5172 > cell: 907-328-9145 > >> _______________________________________________ >> Interest mailing list >> Interest@qt-project.org >> https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest >
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