Qt Designer

• In Qt Designer, set a unique objectName to every object you want to use from Lisp.
• In Lisp, load the *.ui file using qload-ui (which will return the main widget of the UI).
• To get the single widgets from the UI, use qfind-child.

For an example, see examples/3-main-window.lisp.

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If you want to translate your UI files to the corresponding EQL code, do the following at the command line:

  eql5 -quic file.ui

which will generate a file named ui-file.lisp. See also function quic.

If you want to use widgets from modules, make sure the modules are available when you use -quic (they will then be loaded automatically).

For a quick test of the generated file, try this:

  eql5 ui-file.lisp
  EQL-USER> (ui:ini t)

(This will only work if you don't use widgets from modules; otherwise you need to load the modules first, using qrequire.)