Using signal and slots to send data to another window

burrito1111

Hi. I am currently working on a small QT project for my university project. Now, I just need to send a signal to another window from the current window. Basically, I need to send the "username" as a QString to another window every time I press the "login" button in my login window. Would it be possible to do that?

I know it has something to do with Signals and Slots, but I couldn't do it myself since I am not familiar with the syntax. Appreciate the help.

ChrisW67

Yes it is possible.

Are the two on-screen windows part of the same program (process), or are they separate programs (processes)?

JonB

@burrito1111
Although it is possible to do this with signals & slots, the more usual way would not. It would just have a a QDialog for the "login window", with TextEdits for username & password, and an "OK"/"Login" button. The dialog would be run as "modal" via QDialog::exec(). When it exits via the user pressing "OK", the "calling" code would just access the username/password from the dialog instance (provide methods for that).

burrito1111

@ChrisW67 theyre part of the same project. two main windows.

jsulm

@burrito1111 said in Using signal and slots to send data to another window:

theyre part of the same project. two main windows

So, same process with two main windows?
Then it is easy: simply connect a signal from one window to a slot in the other.
See https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/signalsandslots.html
Something like:

LoginWindow *logWindow = new LoginWindow();
connect(logWindow, &LoginWindow::login, this, &MainWindow::doLogin);

JonB

@burrito1111
In that case since the login window is not a modal dialog you will need to attach a slot to the QPushButton::clicked signal of the login window. You can either subclass so that you can create a new signal which passes the username/password, or you can have the slot in the other window access the username from the login window by it have a public "getter" method to call.

Incidentally, since your "logon" window is not a modal dialog, what happens/is to stop user from logging on more than once? And how does the receiving window behave before the user has used the other window to login?