Is there a single place where I can find all standard and custom widgets for dexterity field.
Standard widgets can be found at following link
http://developer.plone.org/reference_manuals/external/plone.app.dexterity/reference/widgets.html
BUT, there is no single reference where I can check all possible custom widgets community has developed before I start thinking to develop widget for our user-case.
The list in the manual is intended to be that single place. Anyone should feel free to contribute to it on github: https://github.com/plone/plone.app.dexterity/blob/master/docs/reference/widgets.rst
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I have found a really neat custom widget for Qt and managed to incorporate it into Qt Designer. I would now like to create a customer widget in designer by placing 32 of these LEDs into a new widget in Designer, then add some functions to it such as giving it address and passing data into it that will then illuminate patterns in colours according to the passed data.
My questions are:
Can I do this? I have placed 32 LEDs on to a new QFrame widget in designer and named the LEDs 0-31, but am at a loss as to know what to do next.
Is there a tutorial anywhere for this? I have found loads of hits on google for creating custom widgets for designer, but not using designer.
Please bear in mind I am not a good Qt programmer, I write embedded code for micros in C and am really not good at object orientated code; I can just hack together relatively simple programs for test and measurement. I need something that will hand hold me through this.
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtdesigner-worldtimeclockplugin-example.html
This seemed to be the kind of thing I wanted, it seemed to look like someone has placed widgets on a screen to create a new widget, but it seems to keep referring back to Creator.
Maybe I am trying to do something impossible. Maybe I have to place this new LED in creator with code?
Many thanks for any pointers.
Yes, it is. A Designer plugin basically consists of 2 Parts:
The Widget that you want to add to the designer
The plugin itself that provides information about the widget usw.
You can simply create the widget with the designer, add the QDESIGNER_WIDGET_EXPORT macro and thats it. Create your designer plugin to load this widget and it should work.
Note: Since you mentioned your not very experienced, you should try to follow the Custom Widget Plugin Example. Once you understood that one, it's only a small step to your designed plugin.
I'm looking for a way of displaying two select fields A and B, where B depends on the selection made in A. For example: Assuming A is a select widget for displaying countries in the world, then B should only list those cities that are found in the country selected in the A field.
I intend to use this in a custom content type and hopefully create a search filter in my view template as well.
Does Plone has such a feature? I've taken a look at Products.MasterSelectWidget but it is very old and it is not compatible with Plone 4.2.
I'm thinking I may have to do this manually using ajax.
Any ideas?
If you are using Archetypes framework, MasterSelectWidget is still the answer for you needs.
You say that it's not working with Plone 4.2 (I never tested) but probably it needs only few fix to back working. Don't be scared from the fact that the product is old... Archetypes framewrork didn't change much in last years!
Just in case, if someone is looking for such widget with Dexterity framework. There is plone.formwidget.masterselect : https://github.com/collective/plone.formwidget.masterselect
I'm working on a dexterity content type that should be able to support multiple upload of images. What I want is to be able to use something like one of the collective.plonefinder referencewidgets.
I've looked at the examples documented for collective.plonefinder but their widgets only seem to be archetypes compatible.
I also looked at collective.quickupload (which provides the upload ability to collective.plonefinder), while I can create a behaviour which marks a dexterity content type as IQuickUploadCapable, I can't add a quickupload widget to a dexterity content type.
I came across https://github.com/plone/plone.formwidget.multifile this week, never used it, but I had to think of it when I read your question, maybe it is worth checking out...
I'm pretty sure that https://github.com/collective/collective.upload is targeting this use-case, although I am not 100% sure there's a well-documented example of how to use it as a widget. Héctor Velarde may have some answers here.
Is it possible to implement tool tip (instruction) for SDL Tridion component fields using GUI extension? If so, could you please provide the details on how it can be done. The tool tip should appear right next to the field whenever the cursor is placed on the field.
Based on the selected value in one field of SDL Tridion component, can the values in an other field be restricted to specific set of values? For example, country and city fields. When the country is selected, city field should only show the cities of the selected country.
A custom tool tip with instructions for a field
You may consider using custom URLs to accomplish the same functionality. You can provide a separate URL for every field, so you could easily have a "/Extensions/Instructions/Article_Body.html" for one field and ""/Extensions/Instructions/Article_NavTitle.html" for another. That way the user can click the field name to pop up your HTML files with instructions. Although the GUI is different from what you describe, it will require less custom coding.
If you're stuck on the GUI as described in the requirements, I suggest you start by writing your own GUI extension and show us how far you got.
A dependency between fields
As Jeremy said already this is not a default option in Tridion, but can be accomplished (like pretty much anything) in a GUI extension.
This type of requirement has been covered quite extensively already in these questions:
Dynamic drop downs in Tridion designing in schema in SDL Tridion 2011 SP1
how to pass embedded schemas as drop down for the content schema in SDL Tridion 2011 SP1
Check out Can we show a different tooltip when a Dashboard Button is disabled? for the answer to question 1. The default option for question 2 is that it is not possible to do this. A GUI extension could be the answer though.
Custom URL and Description
+1 to Frank on Custom URL. Organization-specific help pages definitely help authors. Though they may not use Custom URLs for this, see a great user guide example from Yale.
Don't forget the description field. This is the easiest way to give authors basic instruction for each field and it shows as a tool tip.
For the text within a field, you can also use default settings. If you're using the inline UI (formerly SiteEdit), consider Content (Component) Types to set default values and instructions.
Category & Keyword (as a tree) for Field Dependencies
Use Categories and Keywords displayed with the "tree" option by setting subcategories (such as country) to abstract keywords. Set selectable keywords (e.g. cities) to normal. Then select the tree option to make it easier to navigate between the options.
If the use case is actually countries and cities, consider offering a better interface than the tree selector or drop-downs.
The catch is only the normal keywords would be saved in the component. However, there are workarounds to getting the keyword path.
Update: Custom Urls are not deprecated, only the old script was deprecated in favor of a new approach in SDL Tridion 2011 SP1.
I want to use a custom widget in the GUI-Designer of Qt-Creator IDE.
So i created a class which inherits from Qt's QWidget. It worked to place
it on a QMainWindow programaticaly, but have to do my work in the desiger
where it does not appear as an option in the kist of components.
I googled to find a solution for problem an found an manual on, who guesses, the
Qt doc page ( https://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-4.7/designer-creating-custom-widgets.html
and https://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-4.7/designer-creating-custom-widgets.html).
I tried to follow it but doesn't work.
Does someone know an other way to do this or can give a hint where i can search
for problems following this tutorial?
Thanks in advance.
Codierknecht
There is a different example in the examples section of the Qt documentation that I think is a lot clearer.
Custom Widget Plugin Example
It was a little unclear to me when reading the tutorial where the Q_EXPORT_PLUGIN2() macro goes, but having full example code and project alleviates that.
If you are like me, the analog clock example didn't do it for you, in which case I found just one better tutorial. It may be on the kde site but I you dont need kde to do it, it just explains how to make the custom widget a plugin so you can add it into Qt Designer, rather than having to code it in, which is the norm when you just add a widget to your project and customize the class. I hope this page helps you like it helped me, get in the right direction of writing a single Qt Designer (or multiple) plugin:
Writing Qt Designer Plugins
If this link ever becomes dead, just do a search for the link itself, usually that will turn up the original page in someone's cache, as they do in the other examples above (the dead links in the above answers that just take you to main area and not to the pages originally intended).