Getting Started with Qt Designer

The widget box provides a selection of standard Qt widgets, layouts, and other objects that can be used to create user interfaces on forms. Each of the categories in the widget box contains widgets that have similar uses, or that provide related features.

You can display all of the available objects in a category by clicking on the handle next to the category label. When in Widget Editing Mode, you can add objects to a form by dragging the appropriate items from the widget box onto the form, and dropping them in the required locations.

Qt Designer provides a scratch pad feature that allows you to collect the most commonly used objects in a separate category. This category will be saved for later use when exiting Qt Designer. The scratch pad category can be filled with any widget currently displayed in a form by simply dragging them from the form and dropping them onto the widget box. These widgets can be used in the same way as any other widgets, but in additon they can contain child widgets. Open a context menu over a widget to change its name or remove it from the scratch pad.