QList with custom class - accessing elements' methods
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Greetings,
It maybe that I just can't formulate the right question to google it, but I've tried several times, could't find my exact problem though. So I thought, maybe you guys could help me out:
The question is very simple:
I have a custom class MyClass, I make a *QList<MyClass *> objList, I create a new instance of my class *MyClass obj, then I put it in the list: objList->append(obj).
But when I try to call a member function of an element of the list
objList->at(0)->...,
AutoComplete shows nothing (no members of the object), as if it doesn't recognize that an object of MyClass is returned.
When I manually type it: objList->at(0)->someFunction() it is working without a problem.So what troubles me is that QtCreator doesn't recognize the object returned from at(...) function, so that I can further call member functions. I am pretty sure I have misunderstood something along the way, so it would be kind if you would help me to clear this up.
Thanks in advance, Kris.
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Hello,
I tested what you described in my QtCreator and it works for me. Meaning I get all methods of the MyClass as suggestions from the Autocompletion.
Could you provide more details, i.e. Qt Version, Creator Version and the actual code (in increasing importance ;-)).
Thanks
Soraltan
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Oh sorry, I totally forgot how important is that
Qt Creator 2.7.2,
Qt 5.1.0 (32 bit),@//in header
QList<Waypoint *> *Waypoints;//in constructor
Waypoints = new QList<Waypoint *>();//in a function
{
...
Waypoint *newWaypoint = new Waypoint();
newWaypoint->sequenceId = 1;
Waypoints->append(newWaypoint);
...
qDebug() << Waypoints->at(0)
// then when I press "." nothing happens,
//and I must manually add "->sequenceId";
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At first glance nothing strikes me as really odd. Let's clear some things I'm not 100% sure about:
'In header' means that the Waypoints list is a class variable of a class A.
In the corresponding cpp file you initialise that pointer with a new QList-object within class A's constructor.
Within a method of class A then occurs the last piece of code.
Are those assumptions correct?
Then I have two additional questions:
When you press '.' and QtCreator recognises its a pointer it is usually translated to '->'. Does this translation happen or does a '.' occur?
In your initial posting you wanted to access a function. Now it seems to be a member-variable or property or something?!? it should make no difference in my opinion but this way I can reproduce your problem more accurately.
Best Soraltan
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Thank you for your reply.
Your three assumptions are all correct, all is done within a class.
As for the additional questions:
- No, it doesn't translate to ->, it remains as a point
- AFAIK it doesn't matter whether it's a member-variable or method/function
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Hi,
It might be an old Qt Creator problem (your version is pretty old), I would recommend updating to the latest version (currently 3.1) and try again.
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Yes I agree it should not matter. It is only that I can reproduce it better. Regardless it works in both cases for me: I can get code-completion for methods as well as for member-variables. I need to give an index to the at() function of course. There was a short moment when I thought I could reproduce your behaviour until I noted that I forgot to provide an index (e.g. at(0) instead of at()).
Weird. Could you provide the class?!? Just so that I can test it with the class in question. But I must admit that I'm grasping for straws here. I have no real clue on what is going on.
Btw: I have 2.4.1 32bit and I'm using Qt 4.8 (the latter should have no impact on code-completion though).
