[Beginner]Calculate two values from lineEdit

eager2learn

Hi, I am new to programming and trying to learn new things every day.
I am trying to build a program in Qt to calculate some things. I have made severel input boxes (lineEdit) and those values I want to calculate and display in new labels.

This is the code I have now. I think the second line is wrong. I want to do the input (a number) of lineEdit * the input of lineEdit_2. I think I need to transform the boxes from strings to numbers or something. I hope you can help me further. Thanks.

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int newvalue;
newvalue = lineEdit.text * lineEdit_2.text;
ui->label_2->setText(newvalue);
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Anticross

First you need use text() not text :)
@lineEdit.text()@
that gives you a QString value which you need to convert to int using toInt(). Then you do your calculations with int values end call setText(QString("%1").arg(newvalue));

eager2learn

[quote author="Anticross" date="1326276325"]First you need use text() not text :) @lineEdit.text()@ that gives you a QString value which you need to convert to int using toInt(). Then you do your calculations with int values end call setText(QString("%1").arg(newvalue));[/quote]
Thanks. I have added the () and did some toInt() conversion.
Now I have:
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int number1;
number1 = ui->lineEdit->text().toInt();
int number2;
number2 = ui->lineEdit_2->text().toInt();
int newvalue;
newvalue = number1 * number2;
ui->label_7->setText(""+newvalue);
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I guess this is a bit better. But still not good. I do not understand the QString("%1").arg stuff yet so I tried it this way which sounded logically after reading tutorials. But it is not, I guess;)

andre

If you change the last line to something like this, it should work:
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ui->label_7->setText(QString::number(newValue));
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or
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ui->label_7->setText(QString("%1").arg(newValue));
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broadpeak

Because you have very basic knowledge about Qt, read this book:
http://www.qtrac.eu/C++-GUI-Programming-with-Qt-4-1st-ed.zip
This is an excellent "how-to-start-with-qt" book.
This book is free, and this is THE official Qt book.
(The 2nd edition of this book is not free, you can buy it.)

Yasin

"This is the right link.":http://www.qtrac.eu/C++-GUI-Programming-with-Qt-4-1st-ed.zip