The QtWidgetsStateLoaderGenerator is a tool for autogenerating methods for saving and loading the states from the ui files of a widgets in Qt widget based application through the QSettings class.

Project scope:

• The tool will parse the ui files for looking up for the widgets and will provide a user interface to change the following options for each widget:

  • Section: the given widget will be saved to the given section
    • Deeper sections will be able to created by separating the sections with '/'
  • Key name: by default it will be the widget's name, but could be changed by the user. The program will ensure that in a section there should not be two widgets with the same name.
  • Skip save/load: the given widget will be excluded from the selected opertation

• The tool should have an XML based file format for saving/loading files.

• These "project files" should be updated by reparsing the same ui file.

  • Upon a new UI file import the following cases should be handled:
    • Widgets not presented in the UI file should be removed from project automatically
    • New widgets should be automatically added to the project with the default settings
  • A command line interface will be provided to being able to integrate it to a build process.

• The following options will be provided before the generation:

  • Output file name: a cpp file where the methods will be generated
  • Class name: by default it will be the name of the class tag of the ui file.
  • Save and load method names (loadUI and saveUI by default)

• Usage of the generated code

  • Define the save and load methods in your class declaration.
  • Include the generated cpp file to your project.
  • Use the generated methods in your constructor and destructor.

• Currently supported widgets: QCheckBox QRadioButton QPushButton QLineEdit QPlainTextEdit (saved as plain text) QTextEdit (saved as rich text) QSpinBox QDoubleSpinBox QSlider QDial QDateEdit QDateTimeEdit QTimeEdit QComboBox QPathEdit