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| Tutorial Series | Marble Widget Plugin for Qt Designer |
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The Marble Widget is also offered as a Qt Designer plugin. If you compile Marble yourself you probably need to enable the compilation of the Qt Designer plugin:
If your source directory is "~/marble" and your build directory is "~/marble_build" then you can enable compilation of the Qt Designer plugin via the cmake call:
cmake -DQTONLY=OFF -DWITH_DESIGNER_PLUGIN=ON ../marble </code> Choose "-DQTONLY=ON" as a parameter if you don't have KDE installed. Once you have compiled Marble using "make" you can install everything using "make install". This should install the file <syntaxhighlight lang="text"> MarbleWidgetPlugin.so </code> into Qt's designer plugin directory (please check this in case things don't work out). If you compile the Qt-Only version then the file name is called <b>libMarbleWidgetPlugin.so</b>. Once you start Qt Designer you should spot a new "Marble Desktop Globe" category in the widget box on the left: [[Image:designer1_thumb.png]] On Windows you must keep in mind that your MarbleWidget.dll must be in the PATH when the designer executable is called. Otherwise the marble plugins will result in a loading error. === Using the MarbleWidget Plugin === You can use this Marble Widget just like all other widgets inside Qt Designer: Once you have started Qt Designer you can choose a new form from the ready-made templates (e.g. a QWidget). Now you can just drag and drop the Marble Widget from the widget box onto your form: [[Image:designer2_thumb.png]] Alternatively we also provide other widget plugins that allow controlling the Marble Widget: e.g. the navigation widget plugin and the latitude-longitude widget plugin. The map properties of the Marble Widget can be adjusted in the Property Editor on the right: all properties get assigned and displayed immediately on the map without having to press the "Preview" menu entry. [[Image:designer3_thumb.png]] There are two ready-made examples available inside the example directory of the Marble source code: <syntaxhighlight lang="text"> marble/examples/example1.ui marble/examples/example2.ui </code> The file example2.ui nicely demonstrate how signals and slots work with the MarbleWidget: [[Image:designer4_thumb.png]] You can preview the widget by choosing "Preview" from the "Form" menu. Inside the preview it's possible to pan and zoom the map. Of course the signal-slot connections can be tested inside the preview as well.
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