Send Variable values from QDialog to QMainwindow function

[learnist]

My UI MainWindow has a QListWidget and , upon clicking of its items ,a corresponding QDialog box must pop up , which prompts the user to enter some values in QDialog box, The values entered into line_edits of QDialog box must stored into a QString variable and this variable should be accessed/used in a function of MainWindow,

for Example: I have a QListWidget, with 3 items "New York","Glasgow","Mumbai", and when i double click item named "New York", a pop-up shows up asking me this

and after i enter 3 and Hilton , the item in QListWidget which was initially "New York" must be changed to "New York -3 , The safehouse is in Hilton" my code for MainWindow.cpp is

#include "mainwindow.h"
#include "ui_mainwindow.h"
#include <QtCore>
#include <QtGui>
#include <sstream>
#include <QtWidgets/qmessagebox.h>
#include <QtWidgets/qlistwidget.h>

using namespace std;

MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget* parent)
    : QMainWindow(parent)
    , ui(new Ui::MainWindow)
{
    ui->My_listwidget->addItem("New York");
    ui->My_listwidget->addItem("Glasgow");
    ui->My_listwidget->addItem("Mumbai");
}

MainWindow::~MainWindow()
{
    delete ui;
}

void MainWindow::on_My_listwidget_itemDoubleClicked(QListWidgetItem* item)
{
    QString test = item->text();
    std::string test_s = test.toStdString();

    if (test_s.find("New York") != std::string::npos) // check if item contains text "New York"
    {
        WinApp winApp;
        winApp.setModal(true);   //Displaying the window here
        winApp.exec();
    }
    
    if (test_s.find("Glasgow") != std::string::npos) 
    {
    // show another dialog box asking some questions
    }
    if (test_s.find("Mumbai") != std::string::npos) 
    {
    // show another dialog box asking some questions
    }
}

My code for mainwindow.h

#ifndef MAINWINDOW_H
#define MAINWINDOW_H

#include <QtWidgets/QMainWindow>
#include "ExecutionContext.h"
#include <QtWidgets/qlistwidget.h>
//#include "secdialog.h"
#include <qregexp.h>

QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE
namespace Ui { class MainWindow; }
QT_END_NAMESPACE

class MainWindow : public QMainWindow
{

    Q_OBJECT                      //Used to handle events

public:
    MainWindow(QWidget* parent = 0);
    ~MainWindow();                    //Destructor used to free resources

private slots:

    void on_xml_scripts_textbox_itemDoubleClicked(QListWidgetItem* item);

    Ui::MainWindow* ui; // pointing to UI class

private:

};

my code for WinApp.h , winapp is the name of my dialog

#include <QtWidgets/qdialog.h>
#include "ui_WinApp.h"

class WinApp : public QDialog, public Ui::WinApp
{
    Q_OBJECT

public:
    WinApp(QWidget *parent = Q_NULLPTR);
    ~WinApp();

private slots:

private:
    Ui::WinApp ui;
};

WinApp.cpp

#include "WinApp.h"

WinApp::WinApp(QWidget *parent)
    : QDialog(parent)
{
    ui.setupUi(this);
}

WinApp::~WinApp()
{
}

[jsulm]

@learnist Simply add getter methods to your dialog which you then call in main window to get the values user entered in the dialog.

Also, there is no need for setModal(true) if you're using exec().

[learnist]

@jsulm
Oh okay , and using modal is okay, or should i go for modal less ??

[jsulm]

@learnist said in Send Variable values from QDialog to QMainwindow function:

and using modal is okay, or should i go for modal less ??

This is something you should know. It is your app.
But there is one important thing when using non-modal dialog - show() is NOT blocking. That means you can't access the values from dialog just after show(). You will need to do this in a slot connected to https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qdialog.html#accepted

[learnist]

@jsulm and thanks for the answer, this really narrows down my search but,

i placed a getter method in
winApp.cpp

QString WinApp::getDialogueValue()
{
	return ui.lineEdit->text();
}

i also added its declaration in winApp.h

private slots:
	QString getDialogueValue();

, now how should i call and get its value in the mainwindow here after this

     WinApp winApp;
        winApp.setModal(true);
        winApp.exec();


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[jsulm]

@learnist said in Send Variable values from QDialog to QMainwindow function:

now how should i call and get its value in the mainwindow here after this

Like any other method:

WinApp winApp;
winApp.setModal(true);
winApp.exec();
winApp.getDialogueValue();

[learnist]

Awesome, it works great, but function can return only 1 QString, it might be from 1 line edit, but i have multiple line edits in my QDialog box, so how can i deal with that situation?

[jsulm]

@learnist said in Send Variable values from QDialog to QMainwindow function:

so how can i deal with that situation?

You can add getter for each line edit...

[J.Hilk]

@learnist the possibilities are endless
for example multiple getters like @jsulm suggested
return a struct,
return a QStringList
return an array
etc. etc

[JonB]

@learnist said in Send Variable values from QDialog to QMainwindow function:

Awesome, it works great, but function can return only 1 QString, it might be from 1 line edit, but i have multiple line edits in my QDialog box, so how can i deal with that situation?

I will just throw this thought in. You may not fancy changing your architecture, but it is good to know about if you start having a lot of widgets to deal with.

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qdatawidgetmapper.html is a very nice interface between multiple widgets and back-end data, without you having to write lots of dedicated getters/setters. But it requires you changing so that your data is all kept in a model. Bear it in mind.