Library requires QApplication. How to use QApplication in Qt Quick project?

Question

I have a Qt Quick project and I just added some source files. When trying to build I get the error message:

QWidget: Cannot create a QWidget without QApplication

Since I have a Qt Quick project I use the QGuiApplication. QApplication is a subclass of QGuiApplication. How do I make QApplication available to the newly added sources? Or how do one solve it when one have a Qt Quick and a QWidget?

The source files are the QCustomPlot library which shows a graph.

EDIT:

main.cpp:

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QGuiApplication app(argc, argv);

    QtQuick2ApplicationViewer viewer;

    //Register C++ classes with QML
    qmlRegisterType<Bluetooth>("Bluetooth", 1, 0, "Bluetooth");

    //Set start QML file
    viewer.setMainQmlFile(QStringLiteral("qml/test/main.qml"));

    //New Code:
    // generate some data:
    QWidget widget;
    QCustomPlot * customPlot = new QCustomPlot(&widget);

    QVector<double> x(101), y(101); // initialize with entries 0..100
    for (int i=0; i<101; ++i)
    {
      x[i] = i/50.0 - 1; // x goes from -1 to 1
      y[i] = x[i]*x[i]; // let's plot a quadratic function
    }
    // create graph and assign data to it:
    customPlot->addGraph();
    customPlot->graph(0)->setData(x, y);
    // give the axes some labels:
    customPlot->xAxis->setLabel("x");
    customPlot->yAxis->setLabel("y");
    // set axes ranges, so we see all data:
    customPlot->xAxis->setRange(-1, 1);
    customPlot->yAxis->setRange(0, 1);
    customPlot->replot();

    //New Code End

    //Show GUI
    viewer.showExpanded();

    return app.exec();
}

Error:

QML debugging is enabled. Only use this in a safe environment.
QWidget: Cannot create a QWidget without QApplication
Invalid parameter passed to C runtime function.
Invalid parameter passed to C runtime function.

Answer 1

The key concept is QWidget::createWindowContainer(). Try the following code:

#include <QQuickView>


int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication app(argc, argv);

    QQuickView *view = new QQuickView();
    QWidget *container = QWidget::createWindowContainer(view, this);
    container->setMinimumSize(200, 200);
    container->setMaximumSize(200, 200);
    container->setFocusPolicy(Qt::TabFocus);
    view->setSource(QUrl("qml/test/main.qml"));
    ...
 }

You can find the details on the following posts:

Introducing QWidget::createWindowContainer()

Combining Qt Widgets and QML with QWidget::createWindowContainer()