Using a Designer .ui File in Your Application example not working - c++

I'm trying to build a UI form and interface to it using the example from:
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/designer-using-a-ui-file.html
#include "ui_item.h"
#include <QApplication>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
QApplication app(argc, argv);
QWidget widget;
Ui::Item ui;
ui.setupUi(&widget);
widget.show();
return app.exec();
}
However, it just doesn't work. In the line
ui.setupUi(&widget); I get the error:
invalid conversion from ‘QWidget*’ to ‘QFrame*’
Is there something I'm missing? The top-level widget in Ui::Item is a QFrame. I'm using Qt 5.12 and Qt-Creator 4.12.4.

The issue was that my UI top level was a QFrame and it needed to be a QWidget. For whatever reason, the UI file generated as a QFrame.

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I would like to ask if you could help me with my app.
I have an application in C++ using Qt (and Qwt) in MCVS 2010. I want to open QDialog window with QwtPlot on button click from Main Window (QMainWindow). Here is some code:
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