GUI update signal

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Is it possible to recive signal each time right before qwidget gui gets updated?

mrjj

Hi
You can make it possible.
You can use an event filter to see when the paint event comes (to the widget in question). You could even emit a signal if you wish.

Can I ask what the goal is with it ?

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@mrjj To update gui components without using timer that triggers update_gui function

I would expect Qt has timer somewhere that goes 30hz-screen refresh rate to keep gui values changing.

I don't believe it all is event driven

SGaist

Hi,

No there's no timer involved in this case as it would not necessarily make sense. 30Hz is currently a "slow" monitor most of them are at 60 or more. There would also be no reason to trigger repainting of widgets that have not changed.

mrjj

Hi
Many of the updates come from the OS (like wm_paint on windows ) and
rest is triggered by calling update() in the widgets when a value is changed.
There is no timer / continually redrawing involved with normal Widgets applications.

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I set some values in a gui_update function.
Like app runtime , TCP packet stats etc.
But I never call QApplication::processevents()
What would be best way to sync to GUI updates?
Is windows setting some frequency?
Or all event driven by my setting values of gui objects?

SGaist

Changing a variable in some random class does not mean Qt has to trigger any refresh. You can call the update method of the widget you just modified.

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@SGaist In ui class on QLable->setText()

SGaist

You should share the relevant part of your code.

You could be using a tight loop and thus block the event loop and the related widget updates.

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ui.h

QTimer *uiRefreshTimer = new QTimer;

ui.cpp setting window up

      connect(uiRefreshTimer, SIGNAL(timeout()), this, SLOT(updateGui()));
      uiRefreshTimer->start(ui->ui_refresh_rate->value());

Gui refresh function, this code is partly 5-6 years old, some thing i now understand dont need to be there.
But networking packet stats and app runtime + some other stats i dont know how to update wiser.


void MainWin::updateGui()
{
    ui->appTimer->setText(CONVERT.GetTimeTextFromTimePassed(appStartTime));

    ui->infoLineTimer->setText(CONVERT.GetTimeTextFromTimePassed(lastConnectionTime));

    double fileProgress;
    if(!fileLoader.loadingFiles){
        fileProgress=1;
        if(!ui->filesLoadingProgressBar->isHidden()){
            ui->filesLoadingProgressBar->setHidden(1);
            ui->fileLoadingETR->setHidden(1);
        }
    }else{
        fileProgress=(double)fileLoader.loadingFilesCount/fileLoader.loadingFilesTotalCount;
            if(ui->filesLoadingProgressBar->isHidden()){
                ui->filesLoadingProgressBar->setHidden(0);
            }
            if(ui->fileLoadingETR->isHidden()&&fileProgress>0){
                ui->fileLoadingETR->setHidden(0);
            }
            ui->filesLoadingProgressBar->setValue(fileProgress*1000);
            ui->fileLoadingETR->setText(CONVERT.GetEstimatedTimeLeft(fileLoader.startTime,fileProgress));
    }

    POINTERS.rHist->updateGui();

  //  uint DDminutes = r.Mana.time_in_data / 60000 ;
 //   uint DDdays = DDminutes/1440;

    ui->mb->setText(n(TESTER.MEM.get_ram_mb_usage())+"Mb");

    ui->label_66->setNum((int)ccc.badtimingsOnLoad);

    ui->CC_calc_runs->setNum((int)STATS.Algo_runs);
    ui->CC_draws->setNum((int)STATS.draws);
    ui->CC_p_info_recived->setNum((int)STATS.p_info_recived);
    ui->CC_p_info_request->setNum((int)STATS.p_info_requests);
    ui->CC_ticks->setNum((int)STATS.Ticks);




    /*
    ui->label_24->setNum(PLAYER.current_gap/3600000);
    if(PLAYER.current_gap > PLAYER.max_gap_length){
        ui->label_24->setStyleSheet("background-color: red;");
    }else{
        ui->label_24->setStyleSheet("background-color: black;");
    }*/

    //ui->tester_time_from_last_best->setText( CONVERT_TEXT.GetTimeTextFromTimePassed(TESTER.last_best_time_overall) );






if(TESTER.isRunning())
{
    // thread info
    QString info;
    info.append(n(TESTER.threadPtrVec.size())+"  "+ speed +"\n");
    for(uint e=0; e<TESTER.threadPtrVec.size(); e++){
        RUNNER * ptr = TESTER.threadPtrVec[e];

        double progress = (double)ptr->dataAt/data_size;

        info += CONVERT.GetProgressbar(progress) +"\n";
    }
    ui->tester_info->setText(info);

    ui->tester_runtime->setText(CONVERT.GetTimeTextFromTimePassed(TESTER.testerStartedTime));

    ui->tester_runtime_cc->setNum((int)TESTER.tester_runtime_counter);
    ui->tester_count_from_last_best->setNum((int)TESTER.tester_runtime_from_last_best_counter);

         case_nr_text.append(n(ss.case_number)  + "\t" + n(ss.extraAt)  + "\t" + n(ss.step)  + "\n" );
    }

    ui->tester_case->setText(case_nr_text);

}

SGaist

Why not have your data sources signal that there's something new available ?

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@SGaist New info avalible very often, also app runtime etc timers that display text.
I was hoping to sync to some timer that triggers gui refresh events and not use separate timer