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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.

## Contents

- Getting Started
  - Launching Designer
  - The User Interface
- Designing a Component
  - Creating a Dialog
  - Composing the Dialog
  - Creating a Layout
  - Signal and Slot Connections
- Using a Component in Your Application
  - The Direct Approach
  - The Single Inheritance Approach
  - The Multiple Inheritance Approach
  - Automatic Connections
    - A Dialog Without Auto-Connect
    - A Dialog With Auto-Connect
- Form Editing Mode
  - Managing Forms
  - Editing a Form
  - The Property Editor
  - The Object Inspector
  - Layouts
    - Applying and Breaking Layouts
    - Horizontal and Vertical Layouts
    - The Grid Layout
  - Previewing Forms
- Using Containers
  - General Features
  - Frames
  - Group Boxes
  - Stacked Widgets
  - Tab Widgets
  - Toolbox Widgets
- Connection Editing Mode
  - Connecting Objects
  - Editing Connections

## Figures and Hints

- Qt Designer's main window
- Qt Designer's toolbox
- Choosing a form
- Editing modes
- Adding widgets to a form
- The Property Editor
- Placing widgets in layouts
- Connecting widgets
- Previewing a form
- Selecting objects
- Drag and drop
- Editing properties
- Editing properties
- Inserting objects into a layout
- Highlighted objects
- Making a connection
- Choosing signals and slots
- Editing connection paths
- Deleting connections

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