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@JonB @mpergand @jonezzpeterr @SGaist Thanks very much for the support, I think i have achieve quite a lot of those giving tough time. As @SGaist said I am using QVector and as @JonB said i declare it as a class member variable QVector<LayoutWidgets> layoutArray; Because the size will be set at run time base on user input, i resize the vector in a function layoutArray.resize(LayoutCount); and i am able to make calls to my class setters to set the values in layoutArray and use another getter function to access the set values

@JonB i tried findchild, and worked, thanks mate!!

@Chris-Kawa said in Weird connection between QComboBox, QBasicTimer and static object initialization.: In general singleton pattern doesn't go too well with QObjects. ... and is not needed in most cases - this one here is one of the most cases where a singleton is not needed

@didem I've found a case as follows; aplying "QPropertyAnimation" for QRect. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43428627/applying-qpropertyanimation-to-qrect In my case, I need to apply QPropertyAnimation for "QDateTimeEdit::Section" which is an enum ( https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qdatetimeedit.html ). The goal is to blink/animate focused part (day) of the QDateTimeEdit widget Alternatively, I've tried to catch focused part ( day, month or year ) while editing datetime; this->setStyleSheet("QDateTimeEdit:focus { selection-background-color: red; selection-color: white; }") For the way stated above, I need to set the stylesheet for different colors for every seconds. But, I could not find the way of transition between the start and end value like in the animation ; QPushButton *button = new QPushButton(tr("Animated Button"), this); QPropertyAnimation *anim = new QPropertyAnimation(button, "opacity", this); anim->setDuration(1000); anim->setStartValue(1); anim->setEndValue(0) anim->start(); Could you please help me for both alternative ways of solution ?

@ugo_ I'm failing to see CMAKE_AUTOMOC in your cmake file, did you forget to enable moc for your project? Nope, I'm just blind :D

@SGaist Can you please be more specific? I downloaded the source code from https://account.qt.io/s/downloads and not from git.

@jsulm Yes, that's why I tried to create a LineRubberBand class inheriting QRubberBand, which allows me to draw a line instead of the default rect, and it allows dynamical update ( it can draw and erase within mouseMoveEvent, but painter.drawLine() cannot do). Now the line thing created by me and the dynamical update from QRubberBand are combined well, but there are still some problems mentioned above remaind unsolved.

@jsulm Hi, I decided to go back to Ubuntu 20.04 to avoid such problems Miłosz

@azhagans2 Either add these widgets dynamically when the button is pressed. Or use a https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qstackedwidget.html to show these widgets when the button is pressed.

@JoeCFD need to find a old school method, professor doesnt like going new school

Hi and welcome to devnet, What was the original question ?

I managed to fix it. Some days ago I replaced my linker (ld) with lld, I restored my old one and now it is working again

@ukhooder hi and welcome to devnet, Depending on your distribution, it might already provide Qt 6 and the corresponding development packages. Otherwise, you should use the online installer, it will provide with pre-built version of Qt ready to use.

@Robert-M oldSize.height was -1 at initial call of the method. Problem solved!!!

See https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/sql-driver.html#qmysql "When you distribute your application, remember to include libmysql.dll / libmariadb.dll in your installation package. It must be placed in the same folder as the application executable. libmysql.dll additionally needs the MSVC runtime libraries which can be installed with vcredist.exe"

After countless hours of research and try and error, here is my outcome for those interested into the same topic: Let's first define "automation": Hereby I mean that program code (a script) emulates user actions with the application. The objective is to free the user from repetitive, boring tasks. This could be for example, data exports on a scheduled basis which are then further analyzed. What I am not talking about is: Test automation. automation of industrial processes. With this out of the way, I can summarize: Web applications have an automation API based upon the W3C specification of web driver Windows applications have an automation API called UIA3. It supports Win32, Windows Form, WPF. A Qt application running on Windows cannot benefit from Window's automation API. The underlying libraries of course cannot reference and interact with QML/QQuick objects. If you have a Qt-programmed application that you did not program yourself, there is no way to emulate user interactions! There is no API that allows you to address the GUI elements programmatically. The Accessibility API requires that the developers would have invested their time to provide means to connect with accessibility applications. This is very often not the case for obvious reasons. In the QT world the rule applies : No access to the source code, no way to automate ! Squish and Ranorex are commercial tools made for test automation. In theory they could be converted to emulate user interaction with the 3rd party application. However, for non-commercial automation projects the following reasons speak against this only possible workaround: the considerable license costs of Squish and Ranorex extreme overhead installing these tools necessity to have a separate package for each Qt version, i.e. if you would like to automate an application A coded in qt 6.2 you need to install another package than for a qt application coded in version 6.4. You get it.

@Pl45m4 Thank you. I presume when you suggested building a custom QDialog class, that involves stuffing a QLineEdit into the QDialog?