Problem with 'for' inside currentItemChanged(QListWidgetItem *current, QListWidgetItem *previous)

Zero_emc

Basically i'm trying to go through all the members inside the l_input and l_output in my code (both of them are QListWidget's), both of them have always the same size, but depending on the size of the list the for does no execute all the times it should. Let's see the example below:

void MainWindow::on_lista_questoes_currentItemChanged(QListWidgetItem *current, QListWidgetItem *previous)
{
                QList<QString> in;
                QList<QString> out;
                in.clear();
                out.clear();
                qDebug() << ui->l_input->count(); //THIS PRINTS 6
                for (int j = 0; j < ui->l_input->count(); j++) {
                    qDebug() << "inside for"//BUT THIS ONLY PRINTS 3 TIMES
                    in.append(ui->l_input->takeItem(j)->text());
                    out.append(ui->l_output->takeItem(j)->text());
                }
}

In this example i'm losting 3 itens of my original l_input and l_output because the for is only executing 3 times, regarding the size of the l_input being 6. Sometimes it saves 4, and in other examples with a 4 size list it only saves 2 itens, the only way i'm able to save all the content is if the l_input and l_output has only 1 item in it. Is it wrong to use for in this slot function? Should I use another kind of loop? Or is there a better way to do it? Thank you.

Bonnie

@Zero_emc The problem is not using for in that slot, but taking items while iterating.
1st run:

count = 6
j = 0
you take item 0

2nd run:

count = 5
j = 1
you take item 1 (actually item 2 when count=6)

3th run:

count = 4
j = 2
you take item 2

4th run:

count = 3
j = 3
So the loop will stop without running the inside code

If you want to do that loop, you should iterate reversely

for (int j = ui->l_input->count() - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
    in.prepend(ui->l_input->takeItem(j)->text());
    out.prepend(ui->l_output->takeItem(j)->text());
}

or save the count first and always take the first item

int count = ui->l_input->count();
for (int j = 0; j < count ; j++) {
    in.append(ui->l_input->takeItem(0)->text());
    out.append(ui->l_output->takeItem(0)->text());
}

Besides, you seems not deleteing the taken items.
ADDED
After having written a lot I realized that you maybe just want do a normal iterating.
If you don't want to take items, just want to get the text, you should use item(row) instead of takeItem(row)

Zero_emc

@Bonnie Oh, now I see what I did wrong. I did not know takeItem(row) would remove the item from the list, rookie mistake.

After having written a lot I realized that you maybe just want do a normal iterating.
If you don't want to take items, just want to get the text, you should use item(row) instead of takeItem(row)

You are absolutely correct, I just need the items text, and could easily fix it using item(row). Thank you for the explanation, now I fully understand the difference between takeItem(row) and item(row). Have a nice day!