Do you use the designer, or do you code your gui manually?

[wysota]

What is the pixmap function and how do I use it?

You probably don't need it - it is a function you can write to generate pixmaps according to a name. You can substitute the default pixmap generation process (based on a filepath) with it.

I've been writing most of my interface code by hand since I need to assign icons containing multiple pixmap sizes to QActions , but if it was possible to do in designer I would switch.

You wouldn't see the result in (current) Designer. If icons are your only problem, you can write a simple routine that would set the icons in code and layout the gui in Designer.

[codebehind]

I use the designer for the basic implementation - for positioning the elements on the window - of the GUI. Than i code in txt editor (vim).

[wangqiang]

I often use the designer when i work in !

[rajesh_clt3]

I created widget using designer and connection using manually.......

[qwakaw]

I have always used designer to design the desired UI.. I really don't get the point why one should hardcode GUI.. In Qt 4, the stylesheets, promoting widgets etc gives you the power to achieve what you want with designer..

(OR)

I haven't come across the reqiurement wherby I need to do hardcoding GUI..

[sneg]

I mostly use Designer for prototypes while I do the rest by hand.

[ersin.ozkan]

%80 manually which is the best

[vieraci]

All the time !!
I have to say this is the best IDE I've used...period.
I've paid thousands of dollars for IDE's in the past and this one kills them all...and it's FREE ???

[MIH1406]

Qt Designer makes ugly code

[squidge]

I think you mean UIC makes ugly code as QT Designer only generates XML files

I thought about recompiling UIC before, but never got around to it.

[lengshuang]

I do use designer to design the rack, espencially in project, but i will code my gui manually if the gui is small

[Erik-Moscow]

Sometimes it easier to write code manually, then use QtDesigner. However, use of QtDesigner almost always much faster.
To write GUI code manually is a good way to learn C++ and Qt I think.

[toutarrive]

Never... 100% .
Better control when you think on your own.

[SixDegrees]

I use both. I reach for the designer when I'm putting together a fairly large GUI - like the main application, or a tab set - where the emphasis is on the look and feel. Doing layouts manually, especially complicated ones, is tedious drudgery, and the tedium contributes to corner cutting. With designer, nearly all user visible strings are automatically wrapped in tr() calls, and I have the properties and other settings of the entire inheritance tree available at my fingertips. Much faster, much more conducive to getting things right the first time, and much less error prone than hand coding. And a lot more fun, unless you like the endless, mind-numbing repetition large, nested layouts involve.

Where behavior is paramount, or the task is very small, I find it easier to code by hand.

It isn't unusual for me to use a blended approach - doing a raft of moderately small layouts in designer, then assembling them by hand.

If designer provided a transparent way to insert code while dragging widget components around, my text editor would get a lot less use. I guess this is partly what Creator can do, but sadly there is no way to get Creator to compile in a Solaris environment, thanks to the balky presence, of WebKit. But maybe some day...

[MuzZviman]

Yes I do all the time. Mostly from within QtCreator. I wish it resolved few issues like settiing widgets in the status bar, make a widget a central widget and a few other minor issues.

Muz

[OpenNingia]

I'm looking forward QML, I really liked using Xaml while programming in C#+WPF so I hope QML to be as good as that