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# Qt Designer Manual

Qt Designer is Trolltech's tool for designing and building graphical user interfaces (GUIs) from Qt components. It allows you to design and build widgets and dialogs using on-screen forms using the same widgets that will be used in your application. Components created with Qt Designer can also take advantage of Qt's signals and slots, and they can be previewed so that you can ensure that they will look and feel exactly as you intended.

## Using Qt Designer

- Getting Started with Qt Designer
  - Using Qt Designer
  - Using Forms and Components
  - Customizing Qt Designer
  - Figures and Hints
  - Legal Notices
- Designing a Component with Qt Designer
  - Using Qt Designer
  - Using Forms and Components
  - Customizing Qt Designer
  - Figures and Hints
  - Legal Notices
- Qt Designer's Widget Editing Mode
  - Using Qt Designer
  - Using Forms and Components
  - Customizing Qt Designer
  - Figures and Hints
  - Legal Notices
- Using Containers in Qt Designer
  - Using Qt Designer
  - Using Forms and Components
  - Customizing Qt Designer
  - Figures and Hints
  - Legal Notices
- Creating Main Windows in Qt Designer
  - Using Qt Designer
  - Using Forms and Components
  - Customizing Qt Designer
  - Figures and Hints
  - Legal Notices
- Qt Designer's Signals and Slots Editing Mode
  - Using Qt Designer
  - Using Forms and Components
  - Customizing Qt Designer
  - Figures and Hints
  - Legal Notices
- Qt Designer's Buddy Editing Mode
  - Using Qt Designer
  - Using Forms and Components
  - Customizing Qt Designer
  - Figures and Hints
  - Legal Notices
- Qt Designer's Tab Order Editing Mode
  - Using Qt Designer
  - Using Forms and Components
  - Customizing Qt Designer
  - Figures and Hints
  - Legal Notices
- Editing Resources with Qt Designer
  - Using Qt Designer
  - Using Forms and Components
  - Customizing Qt Designer
  - Figures and Hints
  - Legal Notices
- Customizing Qt Designer Forms
  - Using Qt Designer
  - Using Forms and Components
  - Customizing Qt Designer
  - Figures and Hints
  - Legal Notices
- Using Custom Widgets with Qt Designer
  - Using Qt Designer
  - Using Forms and Components
  - Customizing Qt Designer
  - Figures and Hints
  - Legal Notices

## Using Forms and Components

- Using a Component in Your Application
  - Using Qt Designer
  - Using Forms and Components
  - Customizing Qt Designer
  - Figures and Hints
  - Legal Notices

## Customizing Qt Designer

- Creating Custom Widgets for Qt Designer
  - Using Qt Designer
  - Using Forms and Components
  - Customizing Qt Designer
  - Figures and Hints
  - Legal Notices
- Creating Custom Widget Extensions
  - Using Qt Designer
  - Using Forms and Components
  - Customizing Qt Designer
  - Figures and Hints
  - Legal Notices
- Qt Designer's UI File Format
  - Using Qt Designer
  - Using Forms and Components
  - Customizing Qt Designer
  - Figures and Hints
  - Legal Notices

## Figures and Hints

- Adding a Dock Widget
- Adding an Action
- Adding Widgets to a Form
- Choosing a Form
- Choosing Signals and Slots
- Connecting to a Form
- Connecting Widgets
- Creating a Menu
- Creating a Menu Entry
- Deleting Connections
- Dock Widgets
- Drag and drop
- Editing Modes
- Editing Properties
- Editing Resource Files
- Frames
- Group Boxes
- Highlighted Objects
- Inserting Objects into a Layout
- Layout Function
- Making a Connection
- Making Buddies
- Placing Widgets in Layouts
- Previewing a Form
- Qt DesignerQt Designer's Main Window
- Qt DesignerQt Designer's Widget Box
- Resource Files
- Selecting Objects
- Stacked Widgets
- Tab Widgets
- The Action Editor
- The Object Inspector
- The Property Editor
- The Signal/Slot Editor
- Toolbox Widgets
- Using Resources

## Legal Notices

Some source code in Qt Designer is licensed under specific highly permissive licenses from the original authors. Trolltech gratefully acknowledges these contributions to Qt Designer and all uses of Qt Designer should also acknowledge these contributions and quote the following license statements in an appendix to the documentation.

- Implementation of the Recursive Shadow Casting Algorithm in Qt Designer