passing a current time variable - c++

Question

I am trying to get a text edit box to display the current time every 5 seconds using QTimer. I am having the current time figured in a separate method and then having the QTimer call that method and display the current time. I can not for the life of me figure out how to pass the variable from the setCurrentTime method to the QTimer. Im sure it a really easy fix but I cant figure it out. Here is my code.
void noheatmode::setCurrentTime()
{
QTime time = QTime::currentTime();
QString sTime = time.toString("hh:mm:mm");
// ui->tempTimeNoHeatMode->append(sTime);
}
void noheatmode::on_timeButton_clicked()
{
QTimer *timer =new QTimer(this);
connect(timer,SIGNAL(timeout()), this, SLOT(setCurrentTime()));
timer->start(5000);
ui->tempTimeNoHeatMode->append(sTime);
}

Answer 1

If I got your problem right, you just have minutes variable instead of a seconds. Just change "hh:mm:mm" to "hh:mm:ss"
void noheatmode::setCurrentTime()
{
QTime time = QTime::currentTime();
QString sTime = time.toString("hh:mm:ss");
ui->tempTimeNoHeatMode->append(sTime);
}

Answer 2

With your code:
void noheatmode::on_timeButton_clicked()
{
QTimer *timer =new QTimer(this);
connect(timer,SIGNAL(timeout()), this, SLOT(setCurrentTime()));
timer->start(5000);
ui->tempTimeNoHeatMode->append(sTime);
}
This means that the function within SLOT will be called every 5000 milliseconds which = 5 seconds. What could be done then is that you set your function setCurrentTime() to update your text box every time it is called.
Example:
void Class::setCurrentTime()
{
QTime times = (QTime::currentTime());
QString currentTime=times.toString("hh:mm:ss");
ui->label->setText(currentTime);
//Assuming you are using a label to output text, else substitute for what you are using instead
//Every time this function is called, it will receive the current time
//and update label to display the time received
}