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Run Qt application inside window of my main Qt application

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    lartimus
    wrote on 6 May 2021, 15:45 last edited by
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    Does anyone have a good example of how to run one Qt application inside a window of another Qt application on a Linux desktop system?
    I have Googled this, but not found a complete example.
    Basically I need some sort of container Qt application (A) that starts up another Qt application (B), and shows B inside a window of A.

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      VRonin
      wrote on 6 May 2021, 16:05 last edited by
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      Do you have access to the source code of B?

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        lartimus
        wrote on 10 May 2021, 08:53 last edited by
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        @VRonin Yes I will have access to the source code of A and B.

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          VRonin
          wrote on 10 May 2021, 10:45 last edited by
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          Then it's trivial. Look at the main function of B, it will probably instantiate a main widget, you can use that as a child widget of your application

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