Help with autoconnect

I'm sick of editing the signal/slot connections that get broken every time I move a widget. Apparently, QT can auto-connect widget signals to handler slots. What I have is: Then down in the initialized__(self) module: I have tried self, self.w and WIDGETS. Using the latter 2 does not create errors but no connections are made either.
The slots look like this: All slots that I'm trying to autoconnect have been deleted from the designer signal/slot editor.
Any advice on what I'm doing wrong?
Jim

self (the HandlerClasss) is not a subclass of QObject so connecting by 'slotname' won't work.
self.w is a subclass of QObject but doesn't have the handler functions in it in a way that 'slotname' can find it it seems.
I don't quite understand how designer connects to the handler file functions at the moment.

Don't use this in the handler file- it's exactly the same as self.w

Chris

OK thanks. I find it just as easy to create a new class in another module that explicitly makes all the connections. It works good and makes it way easier to manage especially when doing extensive changes to the designer file. I may integrate it with the handler later.
Jim