Not Declared In This Scope

rabcor

I'm trying to write a super basic file manager with QFileSystemModel, but I had barely started before running into compilation errors.

mainwindow.h

@#ifndef MAINWINDOW_H
#define MAINWINDOW_H

#include <QMainWindow>
#include <QtCore>
#include <QtGui>
#include <QFileSystemModel>

namespace Ui {
class MainWindow;
}

class MainWindow : public QMainWindow
{
Q_OBJECT

public:
explicit MainWindow(QWidget *parent = 0);
~MainWindow();

private:
Ui::MainWindow *ui;
QFileSystemModel *dirmodel;
QFileSystemModel *filemodel;

};

#endif // MAINWINDOW_H
@

main.cpp
@#include "mainwindow.h"
#include <QApplication>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
QApplication a(argc, argv);
MainWindow w;

QString sPath = "$HOME/";
dirmodel = new QFileSystemModel(this);
dirmodel-> setRootPath(sPath);
ui->treeView->setModel(dirmodel)

w.show();

return a.exec&#40;&#41;;

}
@

Debugger Output
@-1: In function 'int main(int, char**)':
10: error: 'dirmodel' was not declared in this scope
dirmodel = new QFileSystemModel(this);
^10: error: invalid use of 'this' in non-member function
dirmodel = new QFileSystemModel(this);
^12: error: 'ui' was not declared in this scope
ui->treeView->setModel(dirmodel)
^@

Why does it give me these errors? is it something I forgot to include?

JKSH

Hi,

ui is a private member variable of the MainWindow class. You can only access it from one of MainWindow's functions; you cannot access it from the main() function.

rabcor

Ah I made a mistake, this was supposed to be in mainwindow.cpp, not main.cpp.

Thanks :)

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