Promoting to Multiple Custom Widgets

[beginQT]

Hello,

I am using QT Eclipse for my project, In my screen 75% of the screen in for opengl window and remaining is for other stuff..
Now, for Opengl window creation, I have dragged the widget(Which is actually an QWidget) and I promoted it to my custom widget which is called "GLWidget" which is extended from QGLWidget.
I need to switch between different screens, I mean different opengl drawing stuff depending on some notifications. I wanted to do it as same as I did it for GLWidget.

My Question here is, Would it be possible to promote to multiple custom widgets for the same GL window(Ex: GLWidget, GLWidget2 ..)
which I can decide at runtime to which widget to be used?

EX:
IF(1)
promote to GLWidget(using the GLWidget instance for drawing)
else
Promote to GLWIdget2(using the GLWidget2 instance for drawing)

A state machine kind of thing.

Thanks in Advance!

[stampede]

Can't you just add the widgets to layout at runtime ?

[ChrisW67]

... or put them both in a QStackedWidget and toggle them that way.

[beginQT]

Thanks for the response!

@stampede: I am not sure about that..But I tried doing that by creating multiple widgets extended from QGLwidget, Problem was it will overwrite the other, I sometimes need 2 widgets to be active in the same portion of the window..like, I have some common display artifacts which would be combined with other display artifacts and altogether would make one feature.

@Chrisw67: I need to understand how QStackedWidget works. Can I keep say around 5 QGLwidgets in the same portion of the window and toggle them and sometimes multiple instances?

I think if I can avoid the overdrawing on top of another, which is currently hiding the below widgets draw functions I should be able to achieve what I want easily. I mean if all these widgets works together depending on active instance.

Any suggestions??

Thanks in Advance!

[stampede]

I think if I can avoid the overdrawing on top of another

Use layouts and nothing like that will happen.
Maybe I didn't understand you correctly, can you attach a picture of how it should look like ?

[beginQT]

I am not able to attach the picture..wil try it later.
basically its something like screens must be developed using opengl in the middle of the screen which takes 600*600 out of 800*600 portion of the screen.
For doing this I need to switch between different opengl screens dynamically depending on the feature that is active or requested for. Its an Navigation app where user would set the destination and through that search and calculation status would be shown in the screen with opengl and along with that some polygons and some curves which looks like some roads and pavements would be shown..

I hope you got what I am trying to do.

And what layouts you are talking about? I have only one layout (same portion) where all the stuff must be drawn.

Thanks!