the icon.jpg how loaded in Qt Creator ? I have to create image folder?

lse123

code like this for alert boxes with image
QPixmap myIcon(":/images/icon.jpg"); //
the icon.jpg how loaded in Qt Creator ? I have to create image folder?

QMessageBox msgBox2;
 msgBox2.setWindowTitle("Serious Question");
 msgBox2.setText("Am I an awesome guy?");
 msgBox2.addButton("Seriously Yes!", QMessageBox::YesRole);
 msgBox2.addButton("Seriously No!", QMessageBox::NoRole);
 QPixmap myIcon(":/images/icon.jpg");
 msgBox2.setIconPixmap(myIcon);
 msgBox2.setIcon(QMessageBox::Question);
 msgBox2.exec();

sierdzio

@lse123 said in the icon.jpg how loaded in Qt Creator ? I have to create image folder?:

the icon.jpg how loaded in Qt Creator ? I have to create image folder?

Can you explain it in different words? I have no idea what you mean.

I'll give a general answer, it may not apply to your case:

The :/ notation us used for Qt Resources, you can read all about them here.

Normally, if you have a filesystem structure like:

SomeDirectory
 |
 *- yourResourceFile.qrc
 |
 *- images
      |
     * icon.jpg

and you just add your icon to QRC via Qt Creator's editor - then your path to that file will indeed become :/images/icon.jpg. But the power of QRC system is that you can create any directory structure you like, add prefixes, aliases etc. So a really accurate answer to I have to create image folder? is depends ;-)

lse123

@lse123 said in the icon.jpg how loaded in Qt Creator ? I have to create image folder?:

QPixmap myIcon(":/images/icon.jpg");

this ebook chapter about message dialog windows/alerts
says this QPixmap myIcon(":/images/icon.jpg");
but Not say how put image or create resource file ... so you mean use this https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/resources.html ... ?

sierdzio

Yes, use the docs. It's really easy, don't worry. For your use case you just need to add a resource file and one entry inside it. You can do it manually (like in the documentation) or using Qt Creator to help you.

jsulm

@lse123 said in the icon.jpg how loaded in Qt Creator ? I have to create image folder?:

this ebook

Which ebook do you mean? My guess is that the resource system is explained somewhere else in that book.

lse123

@lse123 said in the icon.jpg how loaded in Qt Creator ? I have to create image folder?:

QPixmap myIcon(":/images/icon.jpg");
msgBox2.setIconPixmap(myIcon);
msgBox2.setIcon(QMessageBox::Question);
msgBox2.exec();

The problem was and solve it is must comment the line in BOLD below because overwrites the seticonPixmap with "?" question icon...

msgBox2.setIconPixmap(myIcon);
> msgBox2.setIcon(QMessageBox::Question);