Connecting to the default propertyChanged signal

vikramg

I have a property called brightness and want to connect the brightnessChanged signal to a C++ slot. Documentation says that you can write an on<Property>Changed signal handler, but does not explicitly say that a propertyChanged signal exists.

If I try to add a signal brightnessChanged(int b) I get the error:

Duplicate signal name: invalid override of property change signal or superclass signal

which suggests that the propertyChanged signal exists. But if I try to connect to the brightnessChanged signal without declaring it in QML, I get

QObject::connect: No such signal MyProject_QMLTYPE_11::brightnessChanged(int)

So how can one connect to the default propertyChanged signal which apparently exists but somehow is not accessible? My current workaround is to have an onBrightnessChanged handler in QML which calls another brChanged signal (which then gets connected to the C++ slot), but that just seems sad.

dheerendra

Did you define the brightnessChanged() in c++ or qml file ? From which component it is coming ?

vikramg

brightness is a property in a QML file, and I want to connect the corresponding "Changed" signal to a C++ slot. I'm wondering if there is a way to reference this signal without explicitly defining it. (Note that there is no way to explicitly define brightnessChanged anyway, since that results in the Duplicate signal name error).

FKosmale

The issue is that you've specified the wrong signature for the signal: The propertyChanged signals from QML don't have an argument, so you would need to connect to brightnessChanged() instead of brightnessChanged(int). In that case you would need to read the property value afterwards though.

However, IMHO the cleaner solution is to us a onBrithnessChanged handler in QML instead, and to call the C++ slot from there.

vikramg

@FKosmale Ah, that explains it, thanks. The solution you propose is what I have implemented right now anyway; I had hoped there might be a more elegant way to do it. Thank you for clarifying.