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diff --git a/examples/designer/doc/src/customwidgetplugin.qdoc b/examples/designer/doc/src/customwidgetplugin.qdoc index 84da3c495..2c3c9c6df 100644 --- a/examples/designer/doc/src/customwidgetplugin.qdoc +++ b/examples/designer/doc/src/customwidgetplugin.qdoc @@ -57,27 +57,18 @@ recognized as a plugin by Qt by using the Q_PLUGIN_METADATA() macro to export the relevant widget information. - The \c CONFIG variable contains two values, \c designer and \c - plugin: - \list - - \li \c designer: Since custom widgets plugins rely on components - supplied with \QD, this value ensures that our plugin links - against \QD's library (\c libQtDesigner.so). - - \li \c plugin: We also need to ensure that \c qmake considers the - custom widget a plugin library. - - \endlist - - When Qt is configured to build in both debug and release modes, - \QD will be built in release mode. When this occurs, it is - necessary to ensure that plugins are also built in release - mode. For that reason we add the \c debug_and_release value to the - \c CONFIG variable. Otherwise, if a plugin is built in a mode that - is incompatible with \QD, it won't be loaded and - installed. + The \c CONFIG variable is set to \c plugin, which ensures that \c qmake + considers the custom widget a plugin library. + + The \c QT variable contains the keyword \c uiplugin. This plugin type + provides a factory function for custom widget creation by implementing + the abstract interfaces QDesignerCustomWidgetInterface or + QDesignerCustomWidgetCollectionInterface, suitable for use with + QUiLoader. It does not have a dependency on the \QD libraries. + Plugins accessing other interfaces of \QD to implement container extensions + or other \QD specific functionality follow different rules and are covered + by other examples. The header and source files for the widget are declared in the usual way, and we provide an implementation of the plugin interface so that \QD can |