[Interest] Preferred way to create custom look-and-feel GUI

[Konstantin Tokarev]

08.05.2016, 17:40, "Jan Müller" <217534 at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering, what is the preferred way to create a GUI with a custom look-and-feel appearance, similar as e.g. QtCreator.
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> I have a modestly large application, using a QWidgets approach and I use 'designer' to create the ui/layout.
>
> The application has several modes/screens, which are accessible at the moment through a tabview widget.
>
> At the core of the application there is a QGLWidget, drawing lots of data coming from the C++ core.
>
> I would like to make the application appear a bit more modern, e.g. with custom look-and-feel buttons/spin-boxes etc.
>
> I recently discovered QML. Does it make sense to migrate to a QML based approach? I'm thinking of creating the mainwindow together with buttons to switch between the modes in QML. And instantiate my (c++ implemented) OpenGL widget in QML (and make it derive from QQuickItem).
>
> Or should I stick with the QWidgets approach and use a stylesheet to implement more 'fancy' looking things such as gradients and custom look-and-feel components?

It's all up to you. Another valid approach is writing custom widgets/views with your own paintEvent() implementation

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> What does QtCreator use to implement the GUI? For example the navigation bar at the left with the "Welcome", "Edit", "Design", etc. buttons. I tried to look into the sources of QtCreator, but got a bit lost.
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> Thanks a lot!
>
> Best,
> Jan
>
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Konstantin