QMessageBox exec doesnt seem to return QDialog::DialogCode - c++

Question

My application's closeEvent() looks nearly like this (Qt 5.8.0 on Windows):
void MainWindow::closeEvent(QCloseEvent *event)
{
if(some_changes_were_made) // bool
{
QMessageBox mbox;
mbox.setText("Page(s) have been changed.");
mbox.setInformativeText("What do you want to do?");
mbox.addButton("Exit now", QMessageBox::AcceptRole);
mbox.addButton("Save page(s) first", QMessageBox::RejectRole);
int exit_code = mbox.exec();
if(exit_code == QDialog::Rejected)
{
// bail out of the close event so the user can save pages
event->ignore();
return;
}
}
event->accept();
}
I'm curious if the documentation is wrong, which states that exec() returns a QDialog::DialogCode. It actually seems to return the QMessageBox::ButtonRole (which interestingly is the inverse value). Or am I just doing something totally wrong here?
Please forgive any typos, as I'm unable to copy the actual code here.

Answer 1

Check QMessageBox reference here.
It is supposed to return one of the standardButton replies. You are using QDialogBox replies, QMessageBox has already overriden QDialogBox's exec method.
You want to check something like this:
switch (exit_code) {
case QMessageBox::Save:
// Save was clicked
break;
case QMessageBox::Discard:
// Don't Save was clicked
break;
case QMessageBox::Cancel:
// Cancel was clicked
break;
default:
// should never be reached
break;
}
Source from the same link.