Qt Visual Studio add-in: Adding form files to the Project

The Visual Studio add-in lets you launchQt designerSimply by double-clicking on. UIFile. SeeQt designerManual} for more information.

To add a new. UIFile to the project, selectProject | add new itemAnd then selectQt widget formOrQt dialog formTemplate fromQt project itemsFolder.

Normally, you will need to wrap the code generated for the form file into a qwidget subclass to add signals or slots to it. A convenient way to do this is to selectProject | add classAnd then selectQt4guiclassFromQt4classesFolder. This will create. UIFile,. HFile, and. CppFile for you.

Creating form templates

You can add customized form templates by following these steps:

• Create a form inQt designerAnd save. UIFile (e.g.Mydialog. UI).
• CopyMydialog. UIToUiitems \Directory within the QT Visual Studio add-in installation directory.
• Create an icon file namedMydialog. ICO. It shoshould have a size of 32x32 pixels.

After the next start of Visual Studio you can add new forms using your custom template.