View Poll Results: Do you use the designer for your gui?

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  • Always. I almost don't know how to layout widgets manually.

    193 29.15%
  • Designer? What is that? Nope, never use it.

    111 16.77%
  • Depends and the task. Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

    358 54.08%
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    Default Re: Do you use the designer, or do you code your gui manually?

    Quote Originally Posted by ComaWhite View Post
    What do you mean anchors?
    Basically it's a kind of layout where you tell widgets how to align with respect to the window they are in, or other controls in said window. Have a look at Up this topic if you wanna QDesigner with an Anchors property!, anchors are described there.

    (By the way, is there an easy way to link to other threads in this forum, other than copying their URL? Or a way to link to specific posts in a thread?)

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

    Oh gawd. Not those "anchors" like in C# WinForms. I hate those. Such a freaking pain to work with.
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    Default Re: Do you use the designer, or do you code your gui manually?

    I totally agree. I guess whoever prefers anchors to Qt's layout system just doesn't understand how layouts work. Or has never designed anything even remotely complex. I have never seen anything that is easier to use or more powerful than Qt's layouts. It just rocks

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    I remember always thinking absolute positioning was the way to go. When I first tried a different library like Gtkmm back then. I laughed at the layouts and I hated them. Now I love them :O
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    Default Re: Do you use the designer, or do you code your gui manually?

    Quote Originally Posted by rexi View Post
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    Just seen this post... Yes, you can use the [thread] or [post] bbcode tags as documented here: BBCode help
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    Thanks. That should make it easier to point others to the right answers

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

    Designer makes life easier

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    Default I use the designer exclusively ...

    I use the designer exclusively because I usually don't need more than functionality that's offered in Qt libraries and because I don't want to spend a lot of time time on the interface.

    I think programming GUIs is boring and a huge unproductive time-sink. The Designer saves me an enormous amount of time. Usually I just want to get the main functionality done, and wrapped up in a usable GUI. If I can't build the GUI using standard elements in the designer, I won't take the time to do it.

    Besides which ... I haven't taken the time to learn many of all those Qt gui-oriented Qt classes, and if I can use the Designer to get what I want, I'm certainly in no rush to do so.

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

    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 ???

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

    Must of the times I like to layout widgets by my self, in small projects like the ones I work in there is no really necessity for the designer.
    class newbie: public QWidget { };

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    I prefer Designer. It Rocks

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

    Quote Originally Posted by yogeshgokul View Post
    I prefer Designer. It Rocks
    it sux big O time..
    only VB ppl use toys.

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

    Quote Originally Posted by MrDeath View Post
    it sux big O time..
    only VB ppl use toys.
    In my limited experience, I never found designer barring me to achieve what I want from Qt.
    And I never used VB.

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

    hmm.. but i dont like it..

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

    When I started with QT 4.5 I tried out the designer, but quickly felt like it wasn't helping me understand how the classes worked and how I could write special functions for the designer generator classes.

    Since then I only "write" my GUIs, that way I fell like i have more control over my app.

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

    When I last played with Qt I only ever used the designer for the most basic apps as it seemed far too restricted. Now I always use it. If a widget doesn't do what I want, I just promote it, write some code, and back to the designer. Much better than throwing widgets on a form as place holders which is what I had to do before (and then got confused, and eventually stopped using the designer).

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

    Qt Designer makes ugly code
    http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/24714/image/1/
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    Default Re: Do you use the designer, or do you code your gui manually?

    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.

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

    Well as far as my personal experience is concerned, it depends on the requirement as well.
    Sometimes we prepared a common base UI and customize it to various dialogs. In this case we need to show/hide some controls and realign the layouts in the source.

    But if there were no derived class dependencies, designer would be the best option.
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    Default Re: Do you use the designer, or do you code your gui manually?

    I use it only for simple dialogs or when I need to see how it will fit the screen. Never use it for console apps and GL Widgets or QGraphicSceens. But it is one of the best GUI makers available now. Though there are a lot to do with usability which is IMHO not the best.

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