qt_designer_notes.txt

Setting up menu bar:

Right click main widget background and select "add toolbar"
On "Action Editor" tab of lower-right menu box, add actions.
Drag actions to toolbar
Actions will also be used for 



Setting up tight-fitting layout with resize handles:

Add two or more widgets to main panel.  Use QWidget for generic widget
Ctrl-click select both widgets.
Context menu select Layout->Layout Horizontally with Splitter
Go to QMain Window in the object inspector and select Layout->Veritcal layout



Binding to code by promotion:

Go to object inspector and right-click target Widget and slect "Promote to..."
Check to make sure base class is correct.
Select New Class Name MyWidget and select "mywidget.h" as header file.
Hit add
Hit promote
You can use multiple widgets, they should share a header file name (I don't know if this matters)

Define code in mywidget.py

class MyWidget(QtGui.QWidget):
      def initialize(self):
        ''' Setup action handlers here '''
        delete_action = QtGui.QAction("Delete Directory", self)
        delete_action.triggered.connect(self.on_delete_dir)
            
class MyMainWindow(QtGui.QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kw):
        super(MyMainWindow, self).__init__()
        uic.loadUi('mywidget.ui', self)
	# self.widget_name will be set to the sub-widgets
        self.show()