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QDesignerCustomWidgetCollectionInterface Class Reference
^{[QtDesigner module]}

The QDesignerCustomWidgetCollectionInterface class allows you to include several custom widgets in one single library. More...

Inherited by QPyDesignerCustomWidgetCollectionPlugin.

Methods

• __init__ (self)
• __init__ (self, QDesignerCustomWidgetCollectionInterface)
• list-of-QDesignerCustomWidgetInterface customWidgets (self)

QDesignerCustomWidgetCollectionInterface contains one single function returning a list of the collection's QDesignerCustomWidgetInterface objects. For example, if you have several custom widgets CustomWidgetOne, CustomWidgetTwo and CustomWidgetThree, the class definition may look like this:

 #include customwidgetoneinterface.h
 #include customwidgettwointerface.h
 #include customwidgetthreeinterface.h

 #include <QtDesigner/QtDesigner>
 #include <QtCore/qplugin.h>

 class MyCustomWidgets: public QObject, public QDesignerCustomWidgetCollectionInterface
 {
     Q_OBJECT
     Q_INTERFACES(QDesignerCustomWidgetCollectionInterface)

 public:
     MyCustomWidgets(QObject *parent = 0);

     virtual QList<QDesignerCustomWidgetInterface*> customWidgets() const;

 private:
     QList<QDesignerCustomWidgetInterface*> widgets;
 };

In the class constructor you add the interfaces to your custom widgets to the list which you return in the customWidgets() function:

 MyCustomWidgets.MyCustomWidgets(QObject *parent)
         : QObject(parent)
 {
     widgets.append(new CustomWidgetOneInterface(this));
     widgets.append(new CustomWidgetTwoInterface(this));
     widgets.append(new CustomWidgetThreeInterface(this));
 }

 QList<QDesignerCustomWidgetInterface*> MyCustomWidgets.customWidgets() const
 {
     return widgets;
 }

 Q_EXPORT_PLUGIN2(customwidgetsplugin, MyCustomWidgets)

Note that instead of exporting each custom widget plugin using the Q_EXPORT_PLUGIN2() macro, you export the entire collection. The Q_EXPORT_PLUGIN2() macro ensures that Qt Designer can access and construct the custom widgets. Without this macro, there is no way for Qt Designer to use them.

Method Documentation

QDesignerCustomWidgetCollectionInterface.__init__ (self)

QDesignerCustomWidgetCollectionInterface.__init__ (self, QDesignerCustomWidgetCollectionInterface)

list-of-QDesignerCustomWidgetInterface QDesignerCustomWidgetCollectionInterface.customWidgets (self)

This method is abstract and should be reimplemented in any sub-class.

Returns a list of interfaces to the collection's custom widgets.