acracan/qtadditions

Useful additional classes and function for Qt.

QtAdditions

A group of additional classes and functions that are useful when creating user interfaces in Qt.

Contents

These are the classes a functions found in the include and src folders.

QWidgetListWidget

A Qt list widget containing complex sub-widgets.

The QWidgetListWidget class is a list widget that can contain a list of arbitrary widgets as items. The items can have any control put into them. The list widget supports scrolling, selection and drag-and-drop.

Here is an example showing how the widget looks:

QTableWidgetWithComboBox

Allow putting a comb-box widget inside a multi-column list widget.

QHeaderViewWithWidgets

Allow putting widgets in the header row of a table view.

QtUtilities

Various functions to create toolbar buttons, create actions, use the open or save dialogs, ask questions, create pixmap from Windows bitmap resources.

Examples

The examples folder contains multiple simple example application for many of these classes. They also contain more extensive documentation about the design of each Qt utility classes.

Dependencies and Build

The project requires Qt. It was built using Qt 5.15. It uses CMake to build the project. CMake 3.7 was used.

A script to generate a Visual-Studio solution is provided. In order for CMake to find Qt, the environment variable QT5_DIR must be defined and must point to the Qt 5.15 directory. For example:

    QT5_DIR=C:\Tools\Qt\5.15.0\msvc2019_64

Alternatively, to invoke cmake directly, it needs to be told where to find Qt. It needs the environment variable CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH set to the location of Qt. For example:

    CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=C:\Tools\Qt\5.15.0\msvc2019_64