Composing your Gallery app

Alright, we completed AlbumListWidget, AlbumWidget, and PictureWidget. If you remember correctly, AlbumListWidget and AlbumWidget are contained in a widget called GalleryWidget.

Let's take a look at the GalleryWidget.ui file:

This widget does not contain any standard Qt widgets, only our created widgets. Qt provides two ways to use your own widgets in the Qt designer:

  • Promoting widgets: This is the fastest and easiest way
  • Creating widget plugin for Qt designer: This is more powerful but more complex

In this chapter, we will use the first way, which consists of placing a generic QWidget as a placeholder and then ...

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