catching signals with qt promoted class - c++

Started learning the basics of Qt a few days ago and my question involves the following:
- Qt designer (UI)
- promoted classes
With Qt designer (or even without it I believe), to "catch signals" or create an event, we can do something like create a private slot like this: "on_[widget_name]_[signal_name]." The following code works and I have no problems here:
#include "custom.h"
#include "ui_custom.h"
#include <QDebug>
CustomWidget::CustomWidget(QWidget *parent) :
QWidget(parent),
ui(new Ui::CustomWidget)
{
ui->setupUi(this);
// ui->horizontalLayout->setContentsMargins(0,0,0,0);
// ui->horizontalLayout->setAlignment(Qt::AlignLeft);
}
CustomWidget::~CustomWidget()
{
delete ui;
}
void CustomWidget::on_widthInput_valueChanged(int value){
qDebug() << "test";
}
My question is Is there a way to define the same on_[widget]_[signal] event in a promoted class?
In other words, pretend there is a GCWidget::GCWidget(QWidget *parent) : QWidget(parent) but it is only a promoted class from Qt Designer. It has the same void function on_widthInput_valueChanged but unfortunately, "test" will not be outputted.
The reason I want to do this is obviously, I don't want to have all my code polluted in one parent class for my UI. I read that the idea of the promoted class is to give me the possibility of separating these classes but when I created that same "on_..." function, it did not work. Any thoughts?

Related

Qt connect signals and slots of different windows/ mirror a lineEdit text on two windows

I'm new to any form of programming but have to do a project with Qt for my "programming for engineers" course where we simultaneously learn the basics of c++.
I have to display a text from one lineEdit to a lineEdit in another window.
I have a userWindow that opens from the mainWindow and in this userWindow I have a lineEdit widget that displays the current selected user as a QString (from a QDir object with .dirName() ). But now I have to display the same String in a lineEdit in the mainWindow as well.
From what I've read I have to do this with "connect(...)" which I have done before with widgets inside a single .cpp file but now I need to connect a ui object and signal from one window to another and I'm struggling.
My idea /what I could find in the internet was this:
userWindow.cpp
#include "userwindow.h"
#include "ui_userwindow.h"
#include "mainwindow.h"
#include <QDir>
#include <QMessageBox>
#include <QFileDialog>
#include <QFileInfo>
QDir workingUser; //this is the current selected user. I tried defining it in userWindow.h but that wouldn't work how I needed it to but that's a different issue
userWindow::userWindow(QWidget *parent) : //konstruktor
QDialog(parent),
ui(new Ui::userWindow)
{
ui->setupUi(this);
QObject::connect(ui->outLineEdit, SIGNAL(textChanged()), mainWindow, SLOT(changeText(workingUser) //I get the error " 'mainWIndow' does not refer to a value "
}
[...]
mainWindow.h
#ifndef MAINWINDOW_H
#define MAINWINDOW_H
#include <QDir>
#include <QMainWindow>
QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE
namespace Ui { class MainWindow; }
QT_END_NAMESPACE
class MainWindow : public QMainWindow
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
MainWindow(QWidget *parent = nullptr);
~MainWindow();
public slots:
void changeText(QDir user); //this is the declaration of my custom SLOT (so the relevant bit)
private slots:
void on_userButton_clicked();
void on_settingsButton_clicked();
private:
Ui::MainWindow *ui;
};
#endif // MAINWINDOW_H
mainwindow.cpp
#include "mainwindow.h"
#include "ui_mainwindow.h"
#include "userwindow.h"
#include "settingswindow.h"
#include "click_test_target.h"
#include "random_number_generator.h"
MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent)
: QMainWindow(parent)
, ui(new Ui::MainWindow)
{
ui->setupUi(this);
[...]
}
[...]
//here I define the slot
void MainWindow::changeText(QDir user)
{
QString current = user.dirName();
ui->userLine->insert("The current working directory is: "); //"userLine" is the lineEdit I want to write the text to
ui->userLine->insert(current);
}
I know I'm doing something wrong with the object for the SLOT but can't figure out how to do it correctly.
If anyone could help me I would be very grateful.
Alternatively: perhaps there is another way to mirror the text from one lineEdit to another over multiple windows. If anybody could share a way to do this I would be equally grateful. Is there maybe a way to somehow define the variable "QDir workingUser;" in such a way as to be able to access and overwrite it in all of my .cpp files?
Thank you in advance for any help. Regards,
Alexander M.
"I get the error 'mainWindow' does not refer to a value"
I don't see you having any "mainWindow" named variable anywhere,
but you also mentioned that the MainWindow is the parent, which means you could get reference anytime, like:
MainWindow *mainWindow = qobject_cast<MainWindow *>(this->parent());
Also, your signal-handler (changeText(...) slot) should take QString as parameter (instead of QDir), this way you handle how exactly the conversion is handled, in case users type some random text in input-field (text-edit).
void changeText(const QString &input);
Finally, you either need to specify type:
QObject::connect(ui->outLineEdit, SIGNAL(textChanged(QString)), mainWindow, SLOT(changeText(QString));
Or, use the new Qt-5 syntax:
connect(ui->outLineEdit, &QLineEdit::textChanged,
mainWindow, &MainWindow::changeText);
You can create new signal (same params as lineEdit's textChanged) to userWindow which is connected to the textChanged signal of the lineEdit. Then connect that signal userWindow to mainWindow's slot.
//In userWindow.h
signals:
void textChanged(const QString&);
//In userWindow.cpp
connect(ui.lineEdit, &QLineEdit::textChanged, this, &userWindow::textChanged);
//In mainWindow.cpp
connect(userWindow, &userWindow::textChanged, this, &mainWindow::onTextChanged
Then in onTextChanged write the same text to mainWindow's lineEdit

How to get integer value from QSpinBox changed value?

Here, I am just trying to obtain the changed int value from QSpinBox by using SIGNAL and SLOTS because I need to use this int variable in my another function. I mean if the user changes QSpinBox values, it changes the value of int variable.
I know this SIGNAL will be SIGNAL(valueChanged(int)), but I got confused about what the SLOT will be in this case. I really got stack on this point.
EDIT:
What I have tried is following. MainWindow.h is
#include <QMainWindow>
class MainWindow : public QMainWindow
{
Q_OBJECT
public slots:
void setFrame(int frame);
MainWindow.cpp is following. To check how it is working I tried to display the int in a QLabel.
#include "mainwindow.h"
#include "ui_mainwindow.h"
MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent) :
QMainWindow(parent),
ui(new Ui::MainWindow)
{
ui->setupUi(this);
connect(ui->spinBox, SIGNAL(valueChanged(int)), this, SLOT(setFrame(int frame)));
}
void MainWindow::setFrame(int frame)
{
ui->label->setText(QString::number(frame));
}
Can anyone fix this regarding how to get the changed int value from QSpinBox?
Thanks in advance.
As the documentation states (in this document about QObject Class):
Note that the signal and slots parameters must not contain any variable names
So your mistake is specifying the variable name in the slot SLOT(setFrame(int frame)). As you must only use the variable type, it would be instead SLOT(setFrame(int)).
Anyway, if that's the only objective of the connect, I would rather do:
connect(ui->spinBox, SIGNAL(valueChanged(int)), ui->label, SLOT(setNum(int)));
That way, you don't even need the method setFrame in your MainWindow and labels already have a way to show numbers instead of strings.
Hope this helps!

Initializing a Ui pointer From a QMainWindow class to a QDialog Class

I'm really stuck on one problem that I want to solve. the problem is that I have a Class for QMainWindow which holds the Ui variable for that form. Now I want to be able to edit that Form using the Ui variable in that class on a QDialog cpp file. I probably sound really stupid and I really have no idea how I should explain this, but I have code which maybe can help.
MainWindow.h:
#include "ui_mainwindow.h"
namespace Ui {
class MainWindow;
}
class MainWindow : public QMainWindow
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
explicit MainWindow(QWidget *parent = 0);
~MainWindow();
protected:
Ui::MainWindow *ui;
}
MainWindow.cpp:
#include "mainwindow.h"
#include "ui_mainwindow.h"
#include "dialog.h"
Dialog *dialog;
MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent) :
QMainWindow(parent),
ui(new Ui::MainWindow)
{
ui->setupUi(this);
}
MainWindow::~MainWindow()
{
delete ui;
}
void MainWindow::on_pushButton_clicked()
{
dialog = new Dialog(this);
dialog->show();
}
QDialog.cpp:
#include "ui_mainwindow.h"
#include "mainwindow.h"
#include "dialog.h"
#include "ui_dialog.h"
Dialog::Dialog(QWidget *parent) :
QDialog(parent),
ui(new Ui::Dialog)
{
ui->setupUi(this);
}
Dialog::~Dialog()
{
delete ui;
}
Ui::MainWindow *mainui;
void Dialog::on_pushbutton_clicked(){
mainui->label->setText("test");
}
So as you can see from the above code, it shows that I have a pointer to the Ui variable however its uninitialised, therefore it would lead to a SIGSEGV error, so how to do Initialize this pointer? any help here is highly appreciated, and even though this is probably really simple I just don't know what to do. (I have looked at other questions but I couldn't quite grasp what to do, so please explain what I am to do before linking me to a similar question. Also, I have left out the Dialog.h file as I didn't think it was needed, please tell me if I need to show it, thanks!).
Generally in C++ you should practice what is called encapsulation - keep data inside a class hidden from others that don't need to know about it. It's not good to have multiple pointers to the UI object as now all those other objects have to know how the main window UI is implemented.
In this case, what I would recommend is to use Qt's signals and slots mechanism to allow the dialog to tell the main window what you need it to do. That has the advantage that if you add more dialogs, or change how things are implemented in the main window, you don't need to alter the signal slot mechanism, and the details are hidden cleanly.
So - for your dialog, add a signal like this in the header file
class Dialog : QDialog
{
Q_OBJECT
signals:
void setTextSignal(QString text);
}
and in your main window header, add a slot.
class MainWindow : public QMainWindow
{
Q_OBJECT
public slots:
void setTextSlot(const QString &text);
}
now in your method where the button is pressed,
void Dialog::on_pushbutton_clicked()
{
emit setTextSignal("test");
}
and in your main window
void MainWindow::setTextSlot(const QString &text)
{
mainUi->label->setText(text);
}
The final part is to connect the signal and slot together, which you would do in your main window function where you create the dialog:
void MainWindow::on_pushButton_clicked()
{
dialog = new Dialog(this);
connect(dialog, SIGNAL(setTextSignal(QString)), this, SLOT(setTextSlot(QString)));
dialog->show();
}
You can see there are many advantages to this; the Dialog no longer needs a pointer to the main window UI, and it makes your code much more flexible (you can have other objects connected to the signals and slots as well).
Short answere - your can't! If you want to create a new instance of the ui, you would have to do:
MainWindow::Ui *ui = new MainWindow::UI();
ui->setupUi(this);
However, the this-pointer for a UI created for a QMainWindow based class must inherit QMainWindow - thus, you can't.
In general, it is possible if you create your Ui based on a QWidget instead of a QMainWindow, since both inherit QWidget.
Alternativly, you could try the following:
QMainWindow *subWindow = new QMainWindow(this);
subWindow->setWindowFlags(Qt::Widget);
MainWindow::Ui *ui = new MainWindow::UI();
ui->setupUi(subWindow );
//... add the mainwindow as a widget to some layout
But I would guess the result will look weird and may not even work in the first place.

How to easily get the button Press in a dialog box in Qt/C++

I have wrote an app which mainly is an equivalent to mac osx finder. When copying file into a folder, I'm checking if a file of the same name already exist. In case it exist, I'm asking the user if he want to cancel, overwrite or not overwrite.
The Dialog box for the overwrite has been created with QT designer and generate a dialogoverwrite.ui, .cpp and .h.
User Interface
dialogoverwrite.cpp
#include <QDialogButtonBox>
#include "dialogoverwrite.h"
#include "ui_dialogoverwrite.h"
DialogOverwrite::DialogOverwrite(QWidget *parent) :
QDialog(parent),
ui(new Ui::DialogOverwrite)
{
ui->setupUi(this);
}
DialogOverwrite::~DialogOverwrite()
{
delete ui;
}
dialogoverwrite.h
#include <QDialog>
#include <QDialogButtonBox>
namespace Ui {
class DialogOverwrite;
}
class DialogOverwrite : public QDialog
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
explicit DialogOverwrite(QWidget *parent = 0);
~DialogOverwrite();
private:
Ui::DialogOverwrite *ui;
};
I'm using this class in My TreeWidget application as shown below, I will only add the required code
DialogOverwrite *OverwriteDialog = new DialogOverwrite;
OverwriteDialog->exec();
A kind of OverwriteDialog.button.value could be perfect for me.
the exec will show the dialog and wait for a user action. How can I easily catch the return value : Cancel, Yes, YesToAll, No, NoToAll
I'm looking for an easy to get it. I would like to avoid any additional method in the dialogoverwrite class with signal/connecT. I really just need the button value to react.
Thanks a lot
Call QDialog::done(int r) with a value that represents one of the closing buttons. This value is returned by exec().
Default values are provided by QDialog::DialogCode enum.

qt4 designer add custom class

Hi i have made a gui in qt4 designer and want to add custom slots with custom class.
It project compiles nicely without errors but my custom function wont work what am i doing wrong? I will show u the header file qt4 designer made for me and ill show u my custom file as well as the main.cpp.. first the main.cpp
I have revised my code, here is what i have now i have added a file called sweetest.cpp and edited the sweetest.h here are my new file and the error i recieve..
First main.cpp
#include "ui_sweetguiform.h"
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
QApplication app(argc, argv);
QWidget *widget = new QWidget;
Ui::SweetGuiForm ui;
ui.setupUi(widget);
widget->show();
return app.exec();
}
now my custom header file sweetest.cpp
#include "sweetest.h"
// trying to include the .moc file wouldnt work at all.
now the sweettest.h file with my code
#include "ui_sweetguiform.h"
class SweetGuiForm : public QWidget
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
SweetGuiForm( ): ui( new Ui::SweetGuiForm )
{
ui->setupUi( this );
connect(ui->buttonBox, SIGNAL(accepted()), this, SLOT(on_buttonBox_accepted()));
}
public slots:
void on_buttonBox_accepted()
{
ui.textEdit->setText(QString::number(23));
}
protected:
Ui::SweetGuiForm* ui;
};
Here is the compile error i recieve.. I am really stuck
In file included from sweetest.cpp:1:
sweetest.h: In member function ‘void SweetGuiForm::on_buttonBox_accepted()’:
sweetest.h:16: error: request for member ‘textEdit’ in ‘((SweetGuiForm*)this)->SweetGuiForm::ui’, which is of non-class type ‘Ui::SweetGuiForm*’
make: *** [sweetest.o] Error 1
I think im getting closer
The way that signals and slots work is that you must connect a signal to a slot. In your code, the simplest way to do that is in the constructor for the SweetGuiForm. You need to add:
SweetGuiForm() : ui(new Ui::SweetGuiForm) {
ui->setupUi(this);
connect(ui->buttonBox, SIGNAL(accepted()), this, SLOT(on_buttonBox_accepted()));
}
When the buttonBox emits its accepted signal all slots connected to it will be called.
update 1
On further inspection of your code, you are also missing the Qt macros that are used by the Qt MOC (meta-object compiler) system (http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/moc.html):
class SweetGuiForm : public QWidget
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
...
};
You also have to push the code through the MOC tool. It will generate a source file that needs to be included in your source. As I recall, you must include that in a cpp file; inclusion in a header is problematic. The following should be sufficient:
sweetguiform.cpp:
#include "suiteguiform.h"
#include "sweetguiform.moc"
update 2
On further further reflection, I had forgotten about the automatic signal/slot connection feature when you name your slots using special names (such as on_buttonBox_accepted). There is a blog post on just that here: http://qtway.blogspot.com/2010/08/automatic-connections-using-qt-signals.html. I've not used it myself, so I can't comment on its ability to work when using a ui member variable, though I suspect that it does not work in that arrangement. Regardless, you still need the Q_OBJECT macro and MOC.
Ok guys i figured it out and thought ide share what i found.
First the documentation is excellent in qt4 use it.
I found you can use qt4 designer to generate the hearder files, first i complied it with out custom slots and generated the ui_sweetgui2.h, then i could open the sweetgui2.h file generated by the first compile i did delete what qt4 put in there and put my custom slots in at that stage. did my head in for hours.... days.
so here is the simplest app on earth but its got me started so here are the files and code that worked for me and the documentation basically got me to click on to whats going on.
main.cpp
Strait from the documentation just changed the class name "SweetGuiForm".
#include <QApplication>
#include "sweetgui2.h"
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
QApplication app(argc, argv);
SweetGuiForm sweetgui;
sweetgui.show();
return app.exec();
}
next sweetgui2.cpp
My first attempt at c++.. ugly but works. But again i found everything about getting the text from the textEdit and type casting it to a int in the calculator example and searching for toPlainText() in the qt4 assistant. notice below im including the file that i will define the new slots that ill show further on in my explanation. hope im making sense.
#include <QtGui>
#include "sweetgui2.h"
SweetGuiForm::SweetGuiForm(QWidget *parent)
: QWidget(parent)
{
ui.setupUi(this);
}
void SweetGuiForm::on_buttonBox_accepted()
{
QString stringamount = ui.textEdit->toPlainText();
int digitamount = stringamount.toInt();
ui.textEdit->setText(QString::number(25 + digitamount));
}
next sweetgui2.h the one we included above My custom header file with my custom slot.... simple as i said from the calculator example and twisted a lil.. you will get it this is not what it looks like when you generate it from designer on the first compile this is after i have deleted nearly all what was there and opened the calculator example and followed in the tutorial wich shows you how to make your first custom slot .
#ifndef SWEETGUI2_H
#define SWEETGUI2_H
#include "ui_sweetgui2.h"
class SweetGuiForm : public QWidget
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
SweetGuiForm(QWidget *parent = 0);
private slots:
void on_buttonBox_accepted();
private:
Ui::SweetGuiForm ui;
};
#endif // SWEETGUI2_H
Again Straight from the documentation. I used the calculator example to get the basic flow.
next ui_sweetgui2.h
I include this file because i was trying to add my slots to the sweetgui2.h that was generated by qt4 desinger. doesnt work guys ..so i compiled first with sweetgui2.h file you generate with the designer, i go to forms menu then view code that is where u can save header files. then of course save the ui file.
and compile then you end up with the ui_sweetgui2.h file wich looked like the sweetgui2.h generated by the designer
#ifndef UI_SWEETGUI2_H
#define UI_SWEETGUI2_H
#include <QtCore/QVariant>
#include <QtGui/QAction>
#include <QtGui/QApplication>
#include <QtGui/QButtonGroup>
#include <QtGui/QDialogButtonBox>
#include <QtGui/QHeaderView>
#include <QtGui/QTextEdit>
#include <QtGui/QWidget>
QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE
class Ui_SweetGuiForm
{
public:
QDialogButtonBox *buttonBox;
QTextEdit *textEdit;
void setupUi(QWidget *SweetGuiForm)
{
if (SweetGuiForm->objectName().isEmpty())
SweetGuiForm->setObjectName(QString::fromUtf8("SweetGuiForm"));
SweetGuiForm->resize(486, 238);
buttonBox = new QDialogButtonBox(SweetGuiForm);
buttonBox->setObjectName(QString::fromUtf8("buttonBox"));
buttonBox->setGeometry(QRect(150, 200, 181, 26));
buttonBox->setStandardButtons(QDialogButtonBox::Cancel|QDialogButtonBox::Ok);
textEdit = new QTextEdit(SweetGuiForm);
textEdit->setObjectName(QString::fromUtf8("textEdit"));
textEdit->setGeometry(QRect(150, 50, 221, 91));
retranslateUi(SweetGuiForm);
QObject::connect(buttonBox, SIGNAL(rejected()), SweetGuiForm, SLOT(close()));
QMetaObject::connectSlotsByName(SweetGuiForm);
} // setupUi
void retranslateUi(QWidget *SweetGuiForm)
{
SweetGuiForm->setWindowTitle(QApplication::translate("SweetGuiForm", "SweetGuiBack", 0, QApplication::UnicodeUTF8));
} // retranslateUi
};
namespace Ui {
class SweetGuiForm: public Ui_SweetGuiForm {};
} // namespace Ui
QT_END_NAMESPACE
#endif // UI_SWEETGUI2_H
Then i recompiled again with my custom slots and shazam! now i can begin to learn some c++.
thanks for all the hints guys, between you all and the documentation i got there.
hope this helps. The main thing to look at is the order things are included i mean my sweetgui2.cpp file
includes the sweetgui2.h file. wich grabs all my custom stuff.
My sweetgui2.h file
includes the ui_sweetgui2.h wich has all the stuff the designer made when i did the first compile. Main.cpp calls my SweetGuiForm class .
As you all can see my first couple days with c++ but this is a good starting point. it made me put the basic flow together in my mind. qt4 assistant look at it.. its well explained and the examples seem very good. ho ho ho merry xmas. hope my explanation helps.