How can I access the content of a widget outside the constructor?

[DarknessNacho]

I want to display the content I wrote in the QLineEdit widget before clicking on the QPushButton with the function ShowMessage(). So how can I access that content outside of the constructor?
This is my code:

#include "manualwidget.h"
#include <QLabel>
#include <QLineEdit>
#include <QPushButton>
#include <QHBoxLayout>
#include <QMessageBox>

ManualWidget::ManualWidget(QWidget *parent) : QWidget(parent)
{
    QLabel *label = new QLabel(this);
    QLineEdit *lineEdit = new QLineEdit(this);
    QPushButton *pushButton = new QPushButton(this);
    QHBoxLayout *layout = new QHBoxLayout();

    label->setText("Enter text:");
    pushButton->setText("Ok");
    layout->addWidget(label);
    layout->addWidget(lineEdit);
    layout->addWidget(pushButton);

    setLayout(layout);

    connect(pushButton,SIGNAL(clicked()),this ,SLOT(showMessage()));
    connect(lineEdit, SIGNAL(returnPressed()),this, SLOT(showMessage()));


}

void ManualWidget::showMessage(){

    QMessageBox::information(this, "Message", "The text entered in the "
     "manual widget window is:\n" + m_lineEdit->text());

}

[Pablo J. Rogina]

@DarknessNacho said in How can I access the content of a widget outside the constructor?:

So how can I access that content outside of the constructor?

QString ManualWidget::text() {
    return m_lineEdit->text();
}

[jsulm]

@DarknessNacho Simply define these widgets as members of your class:

class ManualWidget : public QWidget
{
private:
    QLabel *label;
    QLineEdit *lineEdit;
    QPushButton *pushButton;
    QHBoxLayout *layout;
}

ManualWidget::ManualWidget(QWidget *parent) : QWidget(parent)
{
    label = new QLabel(this);
    lineEdit = new QLineEdit(this);
    pushButton = new QPushButton(this);
    layout = new QHBoxLayout();
...
}

Now, all these widgets are accessible everywhere in the class.