How would you go about creating a class that's re-usable in various projects?

Hi @Benjamin GUILLOUD​,

There's no official way to do it, like a cross-project widget/custom-container store. Until the time that's implemented you have two options:

1) Simply write the code manually and version control it in your own widget store

2) Create an empty project in the designer where you store all your CustomContainer definitions. What you can do then, when you create a new project, is to merge/import these definitions from the .touchgfx file of your widget-store project into your new project and they should be code-generated by the designer. Here's what you need to import from the .touchgfx file:

 "CustomContainerDefinitions": [
 {
 "Components": [
 {
 "Color": {
 "Red": 255,
 "Green": 255,
 "Blue": 255
 },
 "Alpha": 255,
 "Name": "box1",
 "X": 0,
 "Y": 0,
 "Width": 250,
 "Height": 250,
 "Type": "Box",
 "Visible": true,
 "Draggable": false,
 "Clickable": false,
 "Fadeable": false,
 "Moveable": false
 },
 {
 "Color": {
 "Red": 0,
 "Green": 151,
 "Blue": 255
 },
 "Direction": "Right",
 "Alpha": 255,
 "Style": "Style3",
 "FileNameBackground": "__designer\\blue_progressindicators_bg_medium_progress_indicator_bg_square_0_degrees.png",
 "IndicatorPositionX": 2,
 "IndicatorPositionY": 2,
 "IndicatorPositionWidth": 180,
 "IndicatorPositionHeight": 16,
 "ProgressRangeMin": 0,
 "ProgressRangeMax": 100,
 "ProgressRangeSteps": 0,
 "ProgressRangeStepsMin": 0,
 "ProgressInitialValue": 60,
 "Name": "boxProgress1",
 "X": 21,
 "Y": 56,
 "Width": 184,
 "Height": 20,
 "Type": "BoxProgress",
 "Visible": true,
 "Draggable": false,
 "Clickable": false,
 "Fadeable": false,
 "Moveable": false
 }
 ],
 "Interactions": [],
 "Name": "CustomContainer1",
 "X": 0,
 "Y": 0,
 "Width": 250,
 "Height": 250,
 "Type": "CustomContainerDefinition",
 "Visible": true,
 "Draggable": false,
 "Clickable": false,
 "Fadeable": false,
 "Moveable": false
 },

The downside to this solution is that you will not carry over any modifications you've made to the concrete implementation of the generated base-classes - You'll have to carry that over manually, but you could probably script your way out of that. In either case, none of these solutions are optimal and it's a bit of a manual exercise.

Hope that helps a bit.

Best regards,

Martin