How to acces MainWindow objects from QGraphicsItem

[apollo74]

Hello again,

I have an application where my main window contains a toolbar with buttons on it, a left menu QFrame with QLabel objects, and a central area of type QGraphicsScene where I drag and drop QGraphicsItems. Each one of those QGraphicsItems has an object of type QDialog that shows up when double clicking on the Item... when the dialog appears it contains a QGLWidget that will plot a mathematical function of mine (and here is my problem...) only when the button "Run" located in the toolbar of the MainWindow is clicked.
So my question is, how do I read the status of the button "Run" located in the toolbar of the main window from within the dialog of a QGraphicsItem?

Thanks for your suggestions,

Boris

[giesbert]

You could use some global status cache, or signals and slots to set the state from run button via MainWindow to the objects.

Please do yourself a favor and don't try to access the button from the dialogs.

I would use:

run button connect to a slot in MainWindow and state stored there.

give dialog a pointer to the main window and call a getter method there.

Or create a custom QApplication derived class and store the state there. The global QApplication object can be used from all obejcts.

[apollo74]

Hi Gerolf,

thanks for the tips, I like number 1, seems easy to do and I thought about that before but still my problem was how to read the state of "run" button stored in MainWindow from inside a dialog class of a QGraphicsItem inside a QGraphicsScene. Can you give me some help there too? Thanks.