A couple Qt various questions

qcoderpro

Hi all,

I've got three issues:

My Qt Creator icon (on windows desktop) shows 6.0.2 as the version but on the About Qt Creator window, it shows:
Qt Creator 7.0.0
Based on Qt 6.2.3 (MSVC 2019, 64 bit)
What's my Qt Creator version, please?
In some QML projects where I use a Q_PROPERTY for data members and at times need more methods, I mark them, as expected, Q_INVOKABLE. But it doesn't make any difference and with or without it the project works the same! Why, please? Does that keyword any advantage?
In Projects -> Build Android APK -> Create Templates when I click on Finish on the wizard, I get the error: Could not update the project ..., I click on OK and it takes me to the AndroidManifest.qml window. I set the application name to "My Program" and select an icon for the project:

Then I build the project using Android Release mode and install the generated APK file on my Galaxy Samsung S10 virtual device. But neither the project name is what I already set nor is the icon for the program set as expected! :(
Any reason, please?

sierdzio

@qcoderpro said in A couple Qt various questions:

Hi all,

I've got three issues:

My Qt Creator icon (on windows desktop) shows 6.0.2 as the version but on the About Qt Creator window, it shows:
Qt Creator 7.0.0
Based on Qt 6.2.3 (MSVC 2019, 64 bit)
What's my Qt Creator version, please?

It's 7.0.0.

You can change icon name to anything, it's just a string. But that About Qt Creator shows is compiled into the binary at compile time, and so it's always true.

In some QML projects where I use a Q_PROPERTY for data members and at times need more methods, I mark them, as expected, Q_INVOKABLE. But it doesn't make any difference and with or without it the project works the same! Why, please? Does that keyword any advantage?

It should not work the same. A method which is not Q_INVOKABLE and not a slot cannot be invoked through the meta object system (which QML uses).

Perhaps those extra methods you refer to are slots? Then it's all good. All slots are Q_INVOKABLE.

In Projects -> Build Android APK -> Create Templates when I click on Finish on the wizard, I get the error: Could not update the project ..., I click on OK and it takes me to the AndroidManifest.qml window. I set the application name to "My Program" and select an icon for the project:
[...]
Then I build the project using Android Release mode and install the generated APK file on my Galaxy Samsung S10 virtual device. But neither the project name is what I already set nor is the icon for the program set as expected! :(
Any reason, please?

Perhaps your project is not set up to use this manifest. See https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qmake-variable-reference.html#android-package-source-dir if you are using qmake.

qcoderpro

@sierdzio thanks for your reply.

Perhaps those extra methods you refer to are slots? Then it's all good. All slots are Q_INVOKABLE.

Yes, they're slots, public slots. So altogether the keyword Q_INVOKABLE is something trivial. We can never use it.

if you are using qmake

I'm using CMake.

sierdzio

@qcoderpro said in A couple Qt various questions:

@sierdzio thanks for your reply.

Perhaps those extra methods you refer to are slots? Then it's all good. All slots are Q_INVOKABLE.

Yes, they're slots, public slots. So altogether the keyword Q_INVOKABLE is something trivial. We can never use it.

If you push all methods you want to invoke to slots then yes.

It is not trivial though, slots and Q_INVOKABLE adds overhead and more info to the meta object information.

if you are using qmake

I'm using CMake.

There is some similar variable for cmake, too. Sorry I can't find it now :(

qcoderpro

@sierdzio

Is it the right approach to define the setter and getter in the public scope of the class (not in the public slots) with Q_INVOKABLE, or is it not needed yet?

GrecKo

Accessors for Q_PROPERTY (READ & WRITE) don't need to be slots or Q_INVOKABLE to access the property in QML. I'd go as far as to say they shouldn't be.
Just define them in the public scope.

qcoderpro

I guess the specifier Q_INVOKABLE is redundant likely. I don't have any use case where it as a new feature is useful.

VRonin

@qcoderpro said in A couple Qt various questions:

I don't have any use case where it as a new feature is useful.

RETURN VALUES!

If you have a method that has to perform some operation and return a result that's what Q_INVOKABLE is for

qcoderpro

@VRonin

If that method returning a value is the getter, we simply define it in the public scope - without Q_INVOKABLE.
If that method returning a value is not mentioned in Q_PROPERTY, we simply define it in the public slots and it returns the value without a Q_INVOKABLE.

qcoderpro

Here's a proving example for what I wrote:
.h file:

class SomeClass : public QObject
{
    Q_OBJECT
    Q_PROPERTY(QString name READ getName WRITE setName NOTIFY nameChanged);

public:
    explicit SomeClass(QObject *parent = nullptr);
    const QString getName() const;
    void setName(const QString&);

signals:
 void nameChanged(QString);

public slots:
    int numberSquared(int);

private:
    QString name;
};

.cpp file:

SomeClass::SomeClass(QObject *parent)
    : QObject{parent} { }

int SomeClass::numberSquared(int n)
{
    return n * n;
}

const QString SomeClass::getName() const
{
    return name;
}

void SomeClass::setName(const QString& newName)
{
    if (name != newName) {
        name = newName;
        emit nameChanged(name);
    }
}

.qml file:

 SomeClass {
        id: obj
    }

    Column {
        anchors.centerIn: parent

        Button {
            text: "test button 1"
            onClicked: obj.name = text
        }
        Button {
            text: "test button 2"
            onClicked: text = obj.name
        }
        Button {
            text: "test button 3 "
            onClicked: text += obj.numberSquared(5)
        }
    }

The methods returning a value work as I expected with no Q_INVOKABLE keyword, either in setter/getter or numberSquared.

KroMignon

@qcoderpro said in A couple Qt various questions:

If that method returning a value is not mentioned in Q_PROPERTY, we simply define it in the public slots and it returns the value without a Q_INVOKABLE.

Yes you can use public slots if you want, my personnal preferrence is to use Q_INVOKABLE for methods which I want to be accessible from QML.
I found this more readable.