I'm making a program with Qt 4.8.5 on a Fedora system (unix). It's a QWizard structure with its QWizardPages.
I needed to change the default QWizard buttons (back, next, finish...) and customize it. I found I could do it putting the next lines on the constructor of my QWizard class called BaseWizard (class BaseWizard : public QWizard)
QList<QWizard::WizardButton> button_layout;
button_layout <<QWizard::Stretch << QWizard::CustomButton1 << QWizard::BackButton << QWizard::NextButton << QWizard::FinishButton;
this->setOptions(QWizard::NoDefaultButton);
With that what I have from left to right is one custom buttons, the back button, the next button and the finish button, and when I want I can show or hide the custom buttons with SetVisible() / SetDisabled() / setEnabled() functions.
That worked perfect for what I wanted until now... I have to make some changes to the program so I need to change those buttons depending on the page the user is. As I said before, I know I can change the visibility of CustomButton 1 for example BUT I can't do the same with back button so... my quesiton is: How can I decide which buttons I show in every QWizardPage (and their text) and which is the best way to do it?
I've tried creating a function on my BaseWizard
// Function to have only 2 custom buttons
void BaseWizard::ChangeButtons()
{
QList<QWizard::WizardButton> button_layout;
button_layout <<QWizard::Stretch << QWizard::CustomButton1 << QWizard::CustomButton2;
setButtonLayout(button_layout);
}
And then in the QWizardPage (lets call it WP) using it like:
BaseWizard *bz;
bz->ChangeButtons();
But when I do that nothing changes.I can still see the NextButon for example. I have tried also using first a button_layout.clear(); to see if clenaing it before adding the buttons works, but not.
I have also tried changing the text of CustomButton1. If I do it in the WP after calling ChangeButtons with
wizard()->button(QWizard::CustomButton1)->setText("TEXT CHANGED");
Then the text changes but if I put it in the ChangeButton() function with this->button(QWizard::CustomButton1)->setText("BBBBB"); it does nothing (But its entering into the funcion). Ofc if I try to change the text of CustomButton2 in WP nothing happens because I can't still see that button... so any idea of what I am doing wrong or how could I get what I try will be very apreciated,
Thank you so much.
Ok, I finally knew why was my program crashing... I put here the solution if anyone needs it in the future:
BaseWizard *bz; // <-- HERE is the problem
bz->ChangeButtons();
I was not initializing the pointer so it has to be changed to:
BaseWizard *bz = dynamic_cast<BaseWizard*>(wizard());
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My objective:
During wxEVT_COMBOBOX_DROPDOWN load up a choiceDialog and set the choice as combo box value and finally close the combobox using dismiss().
What I tried:
void Class_Scheduler_FNFrame::myComboBoxDropdown(wxCommandEvent& event)
{
SingleChoiceDialog1->ShowModal();
int i = SingleChoiceDialog1->GetSelection();
myComboBox->SetValue(wxString::Format(("%s"), myWxStringArray[i]));
myComboBox->Dismiss();
}
The value got changed but the dismiss(); is not working.
So I tried moving dismiss to wxEVT_TEXT.
void Class_Scheduler_FNFrame::myComboBoxTextUpdated(wxCommandEvent& event)
{
testLabel->SetLabel("This should have worked");
myComboBox->Dismiss();
}
Dismiss() is not working in wxEVT_TEXT as well. But when I type onto the combobox, after triggering wxEVT_COMBOBOX_DROPDOWN, dismiss() is working through wxEVT_TEXT .
Help!
You're trying to do something rather weird: have you ever seen a modal dialog show while the combobox dropdown is opened? I haven't and, generally speaking, there should be only a single modal element shown at each moment.
So why do you have this objective? What is the point of showing the dialog whenever a combobox is opened? It doesn't even seem like you're using it like a combobox at all. Maybe you're actually after some kind of wxFilePickerCtrl-like behaviour, i.e. a small button showing the dialog near a text control? Or maybe you want to use wxComboCtrl instead?
Anyhow, it should be possible to do what you want by postponing showing the dialog using CallAfter(), but I'm almost sure that you actually don't want to do that anyhow.
I'm new with Qt and I'm making a little application. I've do it with QWizard and QWizardPages.
I Have added 2 CustomButtons to the wizard so it has 5 buttons down: ButA, ButB, Back, Next/Finish, and Cancel.
ButA and ButB don't have to appear in all WizardPages. Eg:
WP0: just ButB
WP1: ButA and ButB
To do that, I have:
void WP0::initializePage()
{
wizard()->button(QWizard::CustomButton1)->setVisible(false);
}
With that when the app starts, you can't see butA. BUT if you go to the next page (where you see ButA and ButB) and then you click on BackButton, then you see ButA in WP0.
I supose that then you click on BackButton there is no call to WP0::initializePage() so my question is: how or where should I call that wizard()->button(QWizard::CustomButton1)->setVisible(false);
to never see ButA on WP0 ? Or what should I do?
I don't know if I understand your question completely. your description is kind of complicated. I think you should try button's events. It means you should call this function in press event or something like that and it's better that you define a boolean variable for true or false and call it by reference. I think this should solve your problem.
So I'm making a text editor using Qt and right now I have a button that opens a dialog called "Format text". I want it to work kind of like the dialog in notepad called "font" where you select a few text attributes from some drop down lists and it shows you what your text will look like. Right now I have it working where you can select the font style, font color, and font size and hit preview and it shows you in a box in the dialog what your text will look like. However, I have a button called "okay" which is supposed to change the highlighted text or the text you are about to type, but I can't figure out how to display those changes on the main window. The .ui files are private and a lot of the already made functions and pointers are the same in every ui file so if I change the ui file to pubic I have to change a whole bunch of things. Can anyway give me a simple answer? I'm trying to do this with as little confusion as possible. More coding and less confusion is better than less coding and more confusion for someone of my skill level. Sorry that this is all one giant paragraph and that I didn't provide any code, but I didn't think the code was necessary, however if you do need some of the code i'd be happy to share it.
Thank you for your help and your time. I hope you all have a nice evening.
QDialog have a signal called finished(), you can connect this signal with your slot. To accomplish your work, pass a QSettings or for simplicity QStringList to dialog settings (responsible for changing font, color ...), the QStringList will save user defined settings, after closing the dialog, iterate through QStringList member to alert Main window.
A pseudo code will look like this
Class Editor:
Editor::Editor()
{
TextSettings textSettings;
textSettings.setSettings(settings); // settings is a member
connect(textSettings, &finished(int)), this, SLOT(alertEditor(int)))
}
Editor::alertEditor(int s)
{
if(s == 0)
{
for (int i = 0; i < settings.size(); ++i)
settings.at(i).toLocal8Bit().constData(); // extract various user settings
}
}
Class TextSettings:
TextSettings::TextSettings(QStringList settings)
{
settings << ui->combobox->currentItem(); // font name as example
}
In my application, I have my re-implemented QGraphicsView checking for a mouseReleaseEvent(), and then telling the item at the position the mouse is at to handle the event.
The QGraphicsItem for my view is made up of two other QGraphicsItems, and I check which one of the two is being clicked on (or rather having the button released on), and handle the respective events.
In my Widget's constructor, I set one of the items as selected by default, using the same methods I used when the items detect a release.
When I debugged, I found that for the LabelItem, select is called without a problem from the constructor (and the result is clear when I first start the application). But, when I click on the items, the application terminates. I saw that I was getting into the select function, but not leaving it. So the problem is here.
Which is very weird, because the select function is just a single line setter.
void LabelItem::select()
{
selected = true;
}
This is the mouseReleaseEvent;
void LayerView::mouseReleaseEvent(QMouseEvent *event)
{
LayerItem *l;
if(event->button() == Qt::LeftButton)
{
l = (LayerItem *) itemAt(event->pos());
if(l->inLabel(event->pos()))
{ //No problem upto this point, if label is clicked on
l->setSelection(true); //in setSelection, I call select() or unselect() of LabelItem,
//which is a child of LayerItem, and the problem is there.
//In the constructor for my main widget, I use setSelection
//for the bottom most LayerItem, and have no issues.
emit selected(l->getId());
}
else if(l->inCheckBox(event->pos()))
{
bool t = l->toggleCheckState();
emit toggled(l->getId(), t);
}
}
}
When I commented the line out in the function, I had no errors. I have not debugged for the other QGraphicsItem, CheckBoxItem, but the application terminates for its events as well. I think the problem might be related, so I'm concentrating on select, for now.
I have absolutely no clue as to what could have caused this and why this is happening. From my past experience, I'm pretty sure it's something simple which I'm stupidly not thinking of, but I can't figure out what.
Help would really be appreciated.
If the LabelItem is on top of the LayerItem, itemAt will most likely return the LabelItem because it is the topmost item under the mouse. Unless the LabelItem is set to not accept any mouse button with l->setAcceptedMouseButtons(0).
Try to use qgraphicsitem_cast to test the type of the item. Each derived class must redefine QGraphicsItem::type() to return a distinct value for the cast function to be able to identify the type.
You also could handle the clicks in the items themselves by redefining their QGraphicsItem::mouseReleaseEvent() method, it would remove the need for the evil cast, but you have to remove the function LayerView::mouseReleaseEvent() or at least recall the base class implementation, QGraphicsView::mouseReleaseEvent(), to allow the item(s) to receive the event.
I have seen these odd behaviours: It was mostly binary incompatibility - the c++ side looks correct, and the crash just does not make sense. As you stated: In your code the "selected" variable cannot be the cause. Do you might have changed the declaration and forgot the recompile all linked objects. Just clean and recompile all object files. Worked for me in 99% of the cases.
My friend and I have each created parts of a GUI using Qt 4. They both work independently and I am trying to integrate his form with the my main window. As of now this is the code I am using to try and load his form:
//connect buttons and such
connect(exitbtn, SIGNAL(triggered()),this,SLOT(terminated()));
connect(add, SIGNAL(triggered()),this,SLOT(add_rec()));
void MainWindowImpl::add_rec()
{
//form quits as soon as it loads...?
DialogImpl dia;//name of his form
dia.show();
}
I have included his header file. The program compiles but when I hit the trigger his form loads up for maybe half a second and then closes. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?
You have almost get it right. This is because the RAII of C++. If you allocate the Dialog on stack, it would be destructed as soon as the function return.
Assuming MainWindowImpl inherits publically from QWidget, you're looking for this:
void MainWindowImpl::add_rec()
{
// passing "this" to the constructor makes sure dialog will be cleaned up.
// Note that DialogImpl will need a constructor that takes a
// QObject* parent parameter.
DialogImpl* dialog = new DialogImpl(this);
dialog->show();
}
Look at the Qt documentation for examples of how the constructors should look.
Apparently QT4 only allows one instance of an object at a time, however pointers are another matter. Change both the main.cpp and what ever your main window to look something like this:
DialogImpl *dia=new DialogImpl;
dia->show();