a Problem with Signal/Slot

mHeidelber

Hello, I am new to Qt ( not to C++ at least ) and I have a problem with making the following work:

I defined a class that holds two integers with setters/getters in a header then declared a class instance in mainwindow.cpp .
I want to get the user's input (two ints) after clicking on a button from a QDialog (it has it's own subclass in a seperate .cpp and .h namely dialogchangesev.h and dialogchangesev.cpp) that holds two QLineEdit , then set the properties of the class instance in mainwindow.cpp to the two inputted int.
The problem is : I get a set of errors. ( as shown below )
Thanks.

Code fragments:

// dialogchangesev.cpp
DialogChangeSEV::DialogChangeSEV(QWidget *parent) :
    QDialog(parent),
    ui(new Ui::DialogChangeSEV)
{
    ui->setupUi(this);
    connect(DialogChangeSEV, SIGNAL( sendIntData(int, int) ),
                      MainWindow, SLOT( setIntData(int,int)));
// Error : C2275: 'DialogChangeSEV' : illegal use of this type as an expression
// Error:   C2275: 'MainWindow' : illegal use of this type as an expression
// see declaration of 'MainWindow'
}
// code goes here ...
void DialogChangeSEV::on_setSEV_clicked()
{
    int se, sv;
    se = ui->setSE->text().toInt();
    sv = ui->setSV->text().toInt();
// emit sendIntData(se,sv) ;
}

//dialogchangesev.h
// code goes here ...
signals:
    void sendIntData(int datae, int datav);
};

//mainwindow.h
// code goes here ...
public slots:
    void setIntData(int datae,int datav);

//mainwindow.cpp
// code goes here ... includes and so on
sizeEV gDimensions;
// ...
void MainWindow::setIntData(int datae,int datav){
    gDimensions.setSE(datae);
    gDimensions.setSV(datav);
}

kshegunov

@mHeidelber said:

connect(DialogChangeSEV, SIGNAL( sendIntData(int, int) ),
MainWindow, SLOT( setIntData(int,int)));
// Error : C2275: 'DialogChangeSEV' : illegal use of this type as an expression
// Error: C2275: 'MainWindow' : illegal use of this type as an expression

The MS compiler is correct! You can't connect classes, you can connect objects, so this should be:

 connect(this, SIGNAL(sendIntData(int, int)), parent, SLOT(setIntData(int,int)));

assuming the parent is the MainWindow.

But you should really make the connection from outside the dialog, not from its constructor, otherwise you impose on the dialog to know who's his parent/receiver, which defeats the whole purpose of the signal-slot mechanism.

Kind regards.

yuvaram

HI,
Have a glance of using signal & slots.
http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/signalsandslots.html