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How to make the Qt Designer appear in different mode in Qt Creator

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Friday, March 27th 2009, 2:09pm

How to make the Qt Designer appear in different mode in Qt Creator

QT version: 4.5

How may I make the Qt Designer appear in "Multiple Top-Level Windows" mode instead of "Docked Window" mode, or load separately when selected in Qt Creator?

I am asking this, because it doesn't fit anything well as it currently loads in the right pane of Qt Creator.

Ideally I would like it to load in a separate window, when clicking a .ui file in Qt Creator.

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Saturday, March 28th 2009, 1:43am

I don't like the Form Editor as well, not so much because of the limited space, but because many features are missing : like the Signal/Slot editor, the View Code... menu item, etc.

If you go to Tools > Options... in Qt Creator, you can set the External Editor to be Qt Designer (by specifying a path similar to this : "C:\Programmation\2009.01\qt\bin\designer.exe %f"). Then, open the .ui file in Qt Creator. Then, press Alt+V+I (which is the shortcut for Edit > Advanced > Open in External Editor).

Qt Creator will automatically reload the Qt Designer modified file.
Mandriva Linux release 2009.0 (Official) for i586
Kernel 2.6.27.10-desktop-1mnb on a Dual-processor i686

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Saturday, March 28th 2009, 1:15pm

Quoted from "TitCouille"

I don't like the Form Editor as well, not so much because of the limited space, but because many features are missing : like the Signal/Slot editor, the View Code... menu item, etc.

If you go to Tools > Options... in Qt Creator, you can set the External Editor to be Qt Designer (by specifying a path similar to this : "C:\Programmation\2009.01\qt\bin\designer.exe %f"). Then, open the .ui file in Qt Creator. Then, press Alt+V+I (which is the shortcut for Edit > Advanced > Open in External Editor).

Qt Creator will automatically reload the Qt Designer modified file.

Where exactly is this external editor option? I can't find it in Qt Creator options under Linux.

See the screenshot: http://www.cpp-software.net/temp/qt_creator_options.png

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Saturday, March 28th 2009, 11:24pm

In the options dialog, under Environment > General.
Mandriva Linux release 2009.0 (Official) for i586
Kernel 2.6.27.10-desktop-1mnb on a Dual-processor i686