source: trunk/tools/designer/src/lib/sdk/abstractformwindow.cpp@ 1168

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#include "abstractformwindow.h"

#include <widgetfactory_p.h>

#include <QtGui/QTabBar>
#include <QtGui/QSizeGrip>
#include <QtGui/QAbstractButton>
#include <QtGui/QToolBox>
#include <QtGui/QMenuBar>
#include <QtGui/QMainWindow>
#include <QtGui/QDockWidget>
#include <QtGui/QToolBar>

#include <QtCore/qdebug.h>

QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE

/*!
    \class QDesignerFormWindowInterface

    \brief The QDesignerFormWindowInterface class allows you to query
    and manipulate form windows appearing in Qt Designer's workspace.

    \inmodule QtDesigner

    QDesignerFormWindowInterface provides information about
    the associated form window as well as allowing its properties to be
    altered. The interface is not intended to be instantiated
    directly, but to provide access to \QD's current form windows
    controlled by \QD's \l {QDesignerFormWindowManagerInterface}{form
    window manager}.

    If you are looking for the form window containing a specific
    widget, you can use the static
    QDesignerFormWindowInterface::findFormWindow() function:

    \snippet doc/src/snippets/code/tools_designer_src_lib_sdk_abstractformwindow.cpp 0

    But in addition, you can access any of the current form windows
    through \QD's form window manager: Use the
    QDesignerFormEditorInterface::formWindowManager() function to
    retrieve an interface to the manager. Once you have this
    interface, you have access to all of \QD's current form windows
    through the QDesignerFormWindowManagerInterface::formWindow()
    function. For example:

    \snippet doc/src/snippets/code/tools_designer_src_lib_sdk_abstractformwindow.cpp 1

    The pointer to \QD's current QDesignerFormEditorInterface object
    (\c formEditor in the example above) is provided by the
    QDesignerCustomWidgetInterface::initialize() function's
    parameter. When implementing a custom widget plugin, you must
    subclass the QDesignerCustomWidgetInterface class to expose your
    plugin to \QD.

    Once you have the form window, you can query its properties. For
    example, a plain custom widget plugin is managed by \QD only at
    its top level, i.e. none of its child widgets can be resized in
    \QD's workspace. But QDesignerFormWindowInterface provides you
    with functions that enables you to control whether a widget should
    be managed by \QD, or not: