[Qt-interest] Same widget in two Designer plugins - problem

[Frank Hemer]

On Friday 30 September 2011 15:14:35 André Somers wrote:
> Thanks a lot for your suggestion.
>
> One question remains: if I return a different class name in the XML, what
> will actually be generated by uic?
> It sounds like you are suggesting that, just for the sake of Designer
> integration, I actually subclass my Slider class and create VSlider and a
> HSlider, that do nothing else than set the right orientation by default?
> That seems taking it a bit far, for me. I guess it would work, but it is
> not the way it seems to be done with QSlider. That one actually generates a
> QSlider as the class name (not matching the name I see in designer!) I
> would like to avoid having to subclass the actual widget (even if that is
> very simple) just for the sake of Designer integration, especially since
> these subclasses will end up in the generated code.
>
> I really don't get why the name() from the plugin needs to match the class
> from the domXml(). If the information is supposed to be the same, then I
> only want to supply it once. If it is supposed to be different, then I
> should be allowed to have them different...

I had exactly the same thoughts - however I didn't find a way to get around 
these limitations.

Frank