onEditingFinished is not available due to component versioning

[ambershark]

@DanCA-A Do you have import QtQuick.Controls 1.2 in your file? It was introduced in 1.1 so you can try that as well, 1.2 may be in 5.8 only.

[DanCA-A]

QtCreator included this:
import QtQuick 2.7

Would I need that and QtQuick.Controls? (newbie question)

I tried adding it, and also tried versions 1.3 and 1.4. No improvement.

[ambershark]

@DanCA-A Yea you need to add the controls line too, it should looks like this:

import QtQuick 2.7
import QtQuick.Controls 2.1

Edit: that is for 5.8 though I think, you may need to adjust the versions for your 5.7 app.

[DanCA-A]

It's QtQuick.Controls 2.0 for 5.7.1, but that still didn't fix it.

I ended up switch to the "accepted" signal instead of "editingFinished".

As far as I can tell the latter is either broken or mis-documented. Is there someplace I should file a bug?

Thanks for the tips, though!

[A Former User]

Works for me with Qt 5.8.0:

import QtQuick 2.7
import QtQuick.Controls 2.1

ApplicationWindow {
    visible: true
    width: 640
    height: 480

    TextField {
        text: "nx"
        anchors.centerIn: parent
        onEditingFinished: console.log("Hello")
    }
}

[DanCA-A]

@Wieland That does work, but it's not how qtcreator does things. Being new to Qt, I'm pretty dependent on the tools to help me get going.

It's doing layout in one file and attaching handlers in another. That isn't working.

Page1Form.ui.qml

import QtQuick 2.7
import QtQuick.Controls 2.0
import QtQuick.Layouts 1.0

Item {
    property alias textField1: textField1
    property alias button1: button1

    RowLayout {
        anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
        anchors.topMargin: 20
        anchors.top: parent.top

        TextField {
            id: textField1
            placeholderText: qsTr("Text Field")
        }

        Button {
            id: button1
            text: qsTr("Press Me")
        }
    }
}

Page1.qml

import QtQuick 2.7
import QtQuick.Controls 2.0

Page1Form {
    textField1.onAccepted: {
        console.log("Accepted text: " + textField1.text);
    }
    /*textField1.onEditingFinished: {
        console.log("Editing finished text: " + textField1.text);
    }*/
    button1.onClicked: {
        console.log("Button Pressed. Entered text: " + textField1.text);
    }
}

Uncomment the above code to see the problem.

[A Former User]

@DanCA-A You are right, I can reproduce it with Qt 5.8.0. It looks like a bug in QQuickTextInput to me. Maybe @jpnurmi can have a look at it, please? :-)

[DanCA-A]

I was looking at the wrong docs. That signal existed in Quick, but not in Quick 2.

[A Former User]

@DanCA-A Wrong, TextField has that signal in QuickControls 2:

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtquick-controls2-textfield.html
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtquick-controls2-textfield-members.html
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtquick-textinput.html#editingFinished-signal

[jpnurmi]

Looks like an unfortunate bug in the property/signal revisioning system. Could you report at bugreports.qt.io?

[jpnurmi]

Here's one possible workaround:

    Connections {
        target: textField1
        onEditingFinished: {
            console.log("Editing finished text: " + textField1.text);
        }
    }

[A Former User]

@jpnurmi Thank you for your time. I've reported the issue as QTBUG-59908.