How to assign an object id to a variable in a QML script

tubbadu

Hello there! This is my first post here, I hope to do nothing wrong

I'm developing a plasmoid in QML, and I'm trying to store an object ID into a variable, so that later I'll be able to edit its properties, something like this:

property string savedObj //string?

TextEdit {
   id: t1
   onFocusChange {
      if (focus) {
         savedObj = id //or something like this
      }
   }
}

...

function doThings(){
   savedObj.text = "hello";
}

is it possible to do something like this? I need to do this because I have a lot of TextEdit and I need to know the last one that got focused

thanks in advance!

JoeCFD

I do not think it will work since savedObj is a string, not an object anymore.

function doThings(){
t1.text = "hello";
}

tubbadu

@JoeCFD thanks for your answer! Unfortunately I need that function to interact with different objects (the last one that got focus for istance) so I have t1, t2, t3 and whenever they get focus they update the savedObj variables (I declared it as string because I don't know what else to declare), and when I call doThings() it should change the text to the last TextEdit who got focused

J.Hilk

@tubbadu
have you tried:

property var savedObj

tubbadu

@J-Hilk Thanks for the reply! I tried, but the assignation savedObj = id fails anyway :(

J.Hilk

@tubbadu nope, works like a charm:

Window {
    visible: true
    width: 500
    height: 500
    title: qsTr("Hello World2")


    Column {
        anchors.fill: parent

        Label{
            id: lbl1
            text: "Label1"
        }

        Label{
            id:lbl2
            text: "Label2"
        }
    }

    property var selectedLabel: lbl1
    property int index: 2

    Timer {
        running: true
        repeat: true
        interval: 1000
        onTriggered: {
            index++
            selectedLabel.text = "Label" + index
            selectedLabel == lbl1 ? selectedLabel = lbl2 : selectedLabel = lbl1
        }
    }
}

tubbadu

I was trying to assign id instead of lbl1, that's the problem, thanks!