[SOLVED] QWidget::setWindowModified: The window title does not contain a '[*]' placeholder

K.Sejdak

Hi everyone!

I'm new to Qt and I started learning it from instruction videos in eLearning section. When I got to events I found something strange - the placeholder. I copied the code from this video (I home without mistakes) and compiled it. There was no errors and program executes correctly, but the compiler says "QWidget::setWindowModified: The window title does not contain a '[*]' placeholder". And I don't understand what is wrong. What is exactly a placeholder and where is it used?

The mistake is here:
@MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent) : QWidget(parent)
{
QLabel *label = new QLabel(tr("Try to close the window."));
QVBoxLayout *vertical = new QVBoxLayout(this);
vertical->addWidget(label, 0, Qt::AlignCenter);

this->setWindowModified(true);
this->setWindowTitle(tr("Close Event[*]"));
}@
Can anybody help me?

goetz

You must call

@
setWindowTitle(tr("My crazy MainWindow[*]"));
@

Important: The window title must contain a "[*]" placeholder. See the API docs on "QWidget property windowModified":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/qwidget.html#windowModified-prop for further details.

Edit
This is not an error, but a warning. It is not generated during compilation but during run-time, as the C++ compiler cannot know the value of the windowTitle property. This is only set at runtime.

K.Sejdak

Firstly, thanks for response.

I know that it's just a warning. But what makes me sad is the fact that I did everything correctly. And I call this function in line 8 of onclosed code and it even has this '[*]' thing. So there shouldn't be any warning. Of course I can live with that, but when someone executes it from a console, this warning is visible and tells that something is not ok. I would like to eliminate it somehow.

If I am wrong somewhere, please correct me :)

goetz

You must set the window title before you call setWindowModified() - just swap the two lines :-)

K.Sejdak

Oh... oh... Thanks a lot! I wasted 2h on that :P I was thinking about it, but in that video it was shown just as in the first post.

goetz

Do you have a link to that video and maybe some timestamp (minute/second) where that appears?

K.Sejdak

"Here is the video":http://qt.nokia.com/developer/learning/online/training/modules/fundamentals-of-qt-objects-in-qt-part-3-3
The mentioned part of code is shown around 5:55 at the top of the screen.

goetz

Indeed. Maybe you should leave some feedback (there is a link in the text below the video player). At least they can add some hint on that page, so that other users do not get bitten by this too.

kamalakshantv

[quote author="eclipse" date="1291413438"]"Here is the video":http://qt.nokia.com/developer/learning/online/training/modules/fundamentals-of-qt-objects-in-qt-part-3-3
The mentioned part of code is shown around 5:55 at the top of the screen.[/quote]

Thanks for the video link