QMessageBox

[nicky j]

Hey!
How would I launch QMessageBox? I want it set up so that when I click a button, it pops up.
I have the following code, but it doesn't seem to launch it.
@void MainWindow::on_toolButton_clicked()
{
QMessageBox msgBox;
msgBox.setText("messagebox");
msgBox.exec();
}@

[nicky j]

oops wait a sec. I restarted Qt and its working. weird.

[sierdzio]

For small tasks I usually use the static methods:

• "about":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtwidgets/qmessagebox.html#about
• "information":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtwidgets/qmessagebox.html#information
• warning... etc.

[nicky j]

Im trying to make a window that contains icons of various web apps. Kind of an app drawer builtin to the browser. Ive been trying to use messagebox for this. Is this possible?

[sierdzio]

It is possible indeed, but I would not think that QMessageBox is a good candidate for this. Plain QWidget, graphicsview or QML would fit better.

[nicky j]

Ok, how would I do a Plain QWidget?

[sierdzio]

I would recommend grabbing a book on Qt t get the idea. Explaining everything here will be tedious.

I don't know exactly what and how you want to achieve. For the description given above, I would go for this:

Create a new QWidget-based UI (in Qt Creator that is "Create new designer class" IIRC)

Add QLabels containing your web app icons and text

Lay out the labels on the widget in a grid layout

Done :)

[nicky j]

I guess I haven't explained my goal really. Essentially, I am trying to make a standalone application that serves as an 'app drawer' for web apps. While online in a browser, you can choose to 'download' apps from a web app repository website. After 'downloading' them, the icon of the apps appear in my application and can be clicked to launch. My app serves as a way to launch the apps quickly and without mucking around in a browser. Its a bit like the 'app drawer' in Chrome OS.

[sierdzio]

The scenario from my last post will still work in that case. The real problem here, of course, will be integrating this with browsers.

[nicky j]

Would it be possible to put a webview in a messagebox and than code the rest on the web?