[SOLVED]Accessing TabView component (accessing children properties of component)

[khajvah]

Dear people,

I have a qml application which has a TabView. Obviously I have created components to assign them to Tabs. There is a component that consists of 2 textfields. Outside of tabview I have a button. onClick of thay button I need to call a c++ function and pass texts of those 2 textfields. Using textfields' ids don't work, because they are created dynamically. How do I access, for example, textfield's text, which is inside a component assigned to a tabview?

Optionally, here is brief version of my code:

@ TabView {
x: 8
y: 8

    id:tab

    Component.onCompleted: {

        addTab("Type", typeComoponent);
        addTab("Unit", unitTab)

    }


}

@

One of components:
@ Component {

    id:typeComoponent

    GroupBox{

        id: groupbox1
        width: 63.2


        TextField {

            id: typefield

        }


        TextField {

            id: baseField

        }

    }

}

@

I want to access those from here:
@
Button {

    id: saveBtn
    
    onClicked: {

        adddial.typeSaveClicked(...); //Have to pass tests of tesfields to this function

    }@

[khajvah]

This is kind of important thing, why isn't anybody answering ?

[Jens]

There are several ways to do this based on scoping rules. One solution is for instance to share root properties that your text fields update when modified or accepted.

@import QtQuick.Controls 1.1
import QtQuick 2.1

Item {
width: 500
height: 500
property string typeResult
Label {
y: 200
id: saveBtn
text: "Text field is now " + typeResult
}
TabView {
Component.onCompleted: { addTab("Type", typeComoponent); }
Component {
id: typeComoponent
GroupBox{ TextField { anchors.centerIn: parent ; onTextChanged: typeResult = text} }
}
}
}
@

[khajvah]

I have solved my problem few minutes ago.

@ Component {

    id:typeComoponent

    GroupBox{

        id: groupbox1
        
        property alias typeValue: typefield.text
        property alias unitValue: baseField.text

    
        width: 63.2


        TextField {
             id: typefield
         }
  
         TextField {
             id: baseField
         }
    }
 }@

and then:
@

            adddial.typeSaveClicked(tab.getTab(0).item.typeValue)

@

In general, I didn't how to access TabView's component (getTab(0).item)

[Jens]

Just note that you should verify that the "item" property is not null, as tabs get instantiated when they are first shown and not at the time that they are added.

[khajvah]

Yes, thanks. I did verify. I just felt it is not important in this case (my question was different) :)

[A Former User]

With getTab(0) you get first tab? What about active tab, how to get it?

[khajvah]

[quote author="Lepa Brena" date="1389088342"]With getTab(0) you get first tab? What about active tab, how to get it?[/quote]

Since every tab has different components, you can't access the active tab directly (if there was a way, there wouldn't be any use in any ways). You can use "currentindex":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qml-qtquick-controls-tabview.html#currentIndex-prop variable to get the index of tab and then check which tab it is(to be able to use components) and access your tab with gettab().

[A Former User]

Foolish me.
Thank you khajvah.