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Hosting the AnalogClock widget in a .Net application

Introduction

This example provides a simple application that hosts the MonthCalendar winforms control from a .Net application.

The Qt analog clock running in a .Net application.

Hosting the AnalogClock widget.

Before the instantiation of the QtWidgetHost the application must make sure that the QtWinForms is initialized properly by calling QtWinFormsUtils::initQtForWindowsForms():

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 #include "mainwindow.h"
 #include <qtwinforms.h>

 int main(int /*argc*/, char /*argv[]*/)
 {
     QtWinFormsUtils::initQtForWindowsForms();
     Application::EnableVisualStyles();
     Application::Run(gcnew MainWindow());
     return 0;
 }

Instantiation of the QtWidgetHost is done in the constructor of the MainWindow class:

 MainWindow::MainWindow()
 {
     SuspendLayout();

     clock = new AnalogClock();
     clockHost = gcnew QtWidgetHost(clock);
     ...
 }