Activating a Ui within an object

[willemf]

I am attempting to activate a QDialog from within an object but get a message as follows:

"error: ‘DivelistGPS’ in namespace ‘Ui’ does not name a type
  Ui::DivelistGPS ui;

After stripping down the code and still compiling with the error, here is the header file:

#ifndef DIVELIST_GPS_H
#define DIVELIST_GPS__H

//namespace Ui {
//	class DivelistGPS;
//};

class DivelistGPS : public QDialog {
	Q_OBJECT
public:
	explicit DivelistGPS(QWidget *parent, QString fileName);
	void print();
private slots:

private:
	Ui::DivelistGPS ui;
	QString fileName;
};


#endif

Here is the .cpp file:

#include "ui_divelistgps.h"
#include "desktop-widgets/divelistgps.h"

#include <QFileDialog>
#include <QProcess>
#include <QMessageBox>

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

DivelistGPS::DivelistGPS(QWidget *parent, QString fileName, ui(new Ui::TabDiveInformation()) : QDialog(parent),
	fileName(fileName)
{
	ui.setupUi(this);
}

void DivelistGPS::print()
{
fprintf(stderr,"Success in accessing print method\n");
}

Here are the first few lines of the .ui file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ui version="4.0">
 <class>DivelistGPS</class>
 <widget class="QDialog" name="DivelistGPS">
  <property name="windowModality">
   <enum>Qt::WindowModal</enum>

If I activate the namespace statement in the header, it errors due to a forward declaration. I have no idea of what to do about this and would appreciate anyone else's comments.

[jsulm]

@willemf said in Activating a Ui within an object:

//namespace Ui {
// class DivelistGPS;
//};

" it errors due to a forward declaration" - because ui is not a pointer!
Forward declaration only works for pointers, if it is not a pointer compiler needs to know what DivelistGPS exactly is (you would need to include the header file).
So change to:

Ui::DivelistGPS *ui;