Property Binding not updating after signal emitted

[J.Hilk]

@beckseba you don't have a guard in the setTextBox1 function, that prevents the emit, when the same text is set again.

If the signal is emitted too often during one event loop cycle, the binding is broken.
Do you get a console output about binding loops or something like that?

[beckseba]

@J-Hilk I have added a guard in the setTextBox1()function but it is still not working. I am wondering that the initialization value of m_textBox1is shown properly when starting the application but updating when clicking a button is not working.

Yet, I did not debug the binding loop.

[J.Hilk]

@beckseba can you make a minimal example for us to check out?

the only thing missing from your opening post seems to be the main.cpp

[beckseba]

@J-Hilk I have only registered the Messaging class qmlRegisterType<Messaging>("hmi.messaging",1,0,"Messaging");in the main.cpp file.

In my application I have several classes which are able to update the property bindings very well. The only difference is that I call void Messaging::setMessageText(QString message)from annother class to trigger the update of the property.

[J.Hilk]

@beckseba sounds like you're updating a different instance of the class then the qml side has access to

[beckseba]

@J-Hilk That would be a valid reason why it is not working. Have you an idea for triggering the update from annother class?

[J.Hilk]

@beckseba from c++ side ?

afaik, there's only setting a c++ class instance as contextProperty (setContextProperty) or qmlRegisterSingletonType and accessing the class instance via the getters respectively

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qqmlcontext.html#setContextProperty
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qqmlengine.html#qmlRegisterSingletonType

[beckseba]

@J-Hilk Thank you for the hint. However, I do not understand how to update a property if the update does not take place in the main function, because I have no access to the QQuickView viewobject.

[beckseba]

Are there any additional ideas how to access from annother instance property bindings, or in general how to access qml properties (from c++ side) from annother class. More precisely (considering the example in the first comment), how can I update m_textBox1from a second class e.g. handler.cpp so that the textBox1in test.qml is also updated properly?

handler.cpp

Messaging messagingObject;
messagingObject.setMessageText("This is a new message");

Thank you for the support.

[J.Hilk]

@beckseba said in Property Binding not updating after signal emitted:

@J-Hilk Thank you for the hint. However, I do not understand how to update a property if the update does not take place in the main function, because I have no access to the QQuickView viewobject.

Well, if you don't want to connect this inside main, and don't want to path a reference/pointer around either, then I would go with the singleton.

btw, this is the only case where I would ever suggest a singleton :P

[beckseba]

@J-Hilk Thank you, the singleton approach works very well.

I have created two functions *Messagging::instance()and *Messaging::qmlInstance(QQmlEngine *engine, QJSEngine *scriptEngine) and registered the second one as Singleton in my main file:

Messaging *Messaging::instance()
{
     if (m_pThis == nullptr)
     {
           m_pThis = new Messaging;
     }
     return m_pThis;
}

QObject *Messaging::qmlInstance(QQmlEngine *engine, QJSEngine *scriptEngine)
{
     Q_UNUSED(engine);
     Q_UNUSED(scriptEngine);

     return Messaging::instance();
}

Now, the same instance can be used in all other classes to edit variables and update GUI elements accordingly with e.g.

Messagging *messageService = Messagging::instance();
messageService->setMessageText("xyz");