Reliably save the state of a widget before it gets closed or destroyed()
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I have to save the state of a widget when it gets destroyed. However so far I thought about implementing just QWidget::closeEvent (..) , then I figured out that it doesn't get called for some strange reason. Next I tried to connect the QObject's destroyed signal, while it mentioned in the docs that it is emitted before the object is destroyed I had to figure out that it was actually after that, too late to save it's state. :(( So two questions:
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If I click on the close button in windows, or close the program gracefully there is a way how Qt closes/removes it's widgets. How exactly does this work and which events/signals are to catch.
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In a class derived from QWidget how can I do something before it gets closed or removed by it's parent. Destructor is not an option, since it might fail.
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have you testes protected destroy function of "QWidget":http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/4.8/qwidget.html#destroy ? It calls before object will be destroyed
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QWidget::closeEvent get's called for top-level windows. Typically QDialog or QMainWindow, but also any widget that gets created/shown without a parent. So your widget seems to be a child widget?
I'd still suggest using the destructor, what do you mean with "Destructor is not an option, since it might fail"? A destructor shouldn't fail...
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[quote author="jc-denton" date="1336657863"]Well it writes it's state into an XML file. So what if the file is does not exist anymore? Then I would just loose the state :([/quote]
Yeah but how would that change if using any other close-triggered signal/event and not the destructor? After all, If the file doesn't exist anymore, recreate it, if the state of the widget is so important.