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Friday, June 18th 2004, 3:57pm

How to create a static widget?

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I need to make a QLabel static so I can write to it from another class. How can I do this when I've created the label (and the rest of the GUI) in the designer?

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Friday, June 18th 2004, 4:40pm

I am not sure what you mean by "write to it".
However, it sounds to me that you need to subclass.
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Friday, June 18th 2004, 4:43pm

RE: How to create a static widget?

Why should it be static? If you used Designer, all your widgets are public.

So from another class you simply use:

theClassWithQlabel->theQLabelWidget->setText( "some buzz" ) ;

If you had declared your widget protected or private, the best way would have beed, within designer, to create getter and setter methods for the widget.
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Friday, June 18th 2004, 4:45pm

Keep it simple :D
Subclassing is not always the solution. When other ways exist, it often better to use them, both for execution speed and preventing hierarchy bloating.
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Friday, June 18th 2004, 5:04pm

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Originally posted by djanubis
So from another class you simply use:

theClassWithQlabel->theQLabelWidget->setText( "some buzz" ) ;


My bad, didn't realise that the designer makes all its widgets public.

This doesn't work however:

netGoDialog->runProfileLabel->setText("hoho");

Im doing this from one of the member-methods of the Process-class and I have included "netgodialog.h" in "process.cpp" (where Im trying to do this).

Did I misunderstood you? It sounds a little bit peculiar with theClassname->theQLabel.

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Friday, June 18th 2004, 5:30pm

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netGoDialog->runProfileLabel->setText("hoho");

When you do this, is the Dialog created, even if not yet shown or not?

If not, the dialog has to be instanciated, so the widgets are created.

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NetGoDialog * netGoDialog = new NetGoDialog( this, "NetGoDialog", TRUE ) ;
netGoDialog->runProfileLabel->setText("hoho");
netGoDialog->exec() ;


If the dialog is already on screen when you want to interfere with it, the simplest is:

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QWidgetList * qApp->topLevelWidgets() ;

Then you iterate in the list to find your dialog, and bingo !
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Friday, June 18th 2004, 5:37pm

Thanks for your time djanubis, but I've solved it in another way.
I just passed the QLabel as an argument to the Process-constructor.

Cheers,

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Friday, June 18th 2004, 5:41pm

That's another way, right 8)
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Friday, June 18th 2004, 9:07pm

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Keep it simple
Subclassing is not always the solution. When other ways exist, it often better to use them, both for execution speed and preventing hierarchy bloating.


As I said, I was not sure what "wrting to it" meant.
I thought he wanted to pass some "custom" data to it - I was sure that for text he was aware of setText().
Thats why I sugested subclassing.

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