Deleting and disabling properties in designer for custom plugins...

[thawkins]

Why would you want to allow an ui designer (the person) to create custom slots if he/she can't implement them? The problem is people treat Qt Designer as an IDE, but it's not one - it's a layout editor, you shouldn't implement any logic there. To be honest I'm surprised why Trolltech implemented writing scripts in QtScript in Designer (since 4.3), as it clearly violates their own rule of removing the editor part from Designer.

I don't think you understand, or maybe I'm not saying it right. I don't want a user to be able to create and modify a slot from scratch in Qt, merely to have slots that were defined in code visible in the slot editor in designer. I think if they went through the trouble of exposing properties and such with Q_PROPERTY(), Q_ENUM, etc, why is there no equivalent for slots and signals? That wouldn't seem to violate their rules and in fact would make designer more useful as a layout tool. As it stands now, when you develop a plugin you still have to programmatically attach any of the slots that you wrote. This takes away from the usefulness of designer for anything accept the layout of built in widgets as anything else requires further coding to work.

[wysota]

I don't think you understand, or maybe I'm not saying it right. I don't want a user to be able to create and modify a slot from scratch in Qt, merely to have slots that were defined in code visible in the slot editor in designer. I think if they went through the trouble of exposing properties and such with Q_PROPERTY(), Q_ENUM, etc, why is there no equivalent for slots and signals?

I think you had to make some mistake, as my custom slots are perfectly visible in Designer (screenshot attached).

[thawkins]

I think you had to make some mistake, as my custom slots are perfectly visible in Designer (screenshot attached).

And so it is. Mine appear to show up as well. I never looked before because I hadn't gotten a chance to play with that feature in my custom plugins and I've read so much about not having custom slots show up in designer. Oh well, just goes to show you can't take everything at face value.