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How Did They Do That? - Button Inside a lineedit - Video
Qt Widgets and more
7 April 2022
In Qt Creator, there is a line edit which has a push button embedded in it for selecting tokens. How did they do that? In this episode, I'll investigate and implement a file chooser based on this idea.
0:00 Intro
0:29 Was the button a child of the lineedit?
1:32 Implementing a file chooser with the button being a child
5:30 Implementing the file choose using QLineEdit API
7:35 Adding a validator
KDAB's C++ training: https://training.kdab.com/portfolio/modern-cpp/
The example code showcased in this video is available here: https://github.com/KDAB/kdabtv/tree/master/Qt-Widgets-and-more/FileSelector
All Qt Widgets and more videos:
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