[Qt-creator] Why is UI always created as a pointer and not overloaded?

[Andre Poenitz]

ext Matthias Pospiech wrote:
> This is what Qt-Creator creates automatically:
> [...]
> //------------------------------------------
> 
> Whereas I am used to this code:
> 
> 
> //------------------------------------------
> 
> class MainWindow : public QMainWindow, protected Ui_MainWindow

That the uic generated header to be #included in your header
while for the setup used by Creator a declaration is sufficient.

Using the declaration-only variant reduces #include dependencies
and therefore scales better to larger projects.

Andre'