Sometimes QML property binding doesn't updates

Manta Ray

I have the next code:

property int maxCount: convert(isMaxUser ? user.maxUserCount : admin.maxAdminCount)

Label{
	text: maxCount.toString()
}

At all it works good, but sometimes maxCount value is stuck, it doesn't changes anymore. It occurs very seldom and I don't know how I can use property binding in the best way to avoid this strange behaviour.

I've tried to update maxCount velue in this way:

property int maxUser: user.maxUserCount
property int maxAdmin: admin.maxAdminCount

property int maxCount: convert(isMaxUser ? maxUser : maxAdmin)

onMaxAdminChanged{
	maxCount= convert(isMaxUser ? maxUser : maxAdmin)
}

onMaxUserChanged{
	maxCount= convert(isMaxUser ? maxUser : maxAdmin)
}

But I think that this way is too complex.

Can you advise me something to solve my issue in the best way?

Thanks a lot!

Roumed

@Manta-Ray

At first, just for debug you can do this:

property int maxCount: {
    print("isMaxUser: " + isMaxUser)
    print("user.maxUserCount: " + user.maxUserCount)
    print("admin.maxAdminCount: " + admin.maxAdminCount)
    var res = convert(isMaxUser ? user.maxUserCount : admin.maxAdminCount);
    print("res: " + res)
    return res;
}

This will help you to catch a case of stuck.
This is entry point to solve your problem.

Manta Ray

Thanks a lot, I'll try this.

Viet

Have you tried Qt.binding() ?
Eg: Component.onCompleted: {
maxCount = Qt.binding( function() { return convert(isMaxUser ? user.maxUserCount : admin.maxAdminCount) } )
}

Manta Ray

I've found that sometimes (very seldom 1 from 50) binding to method doesn't work.
I've separated property and method call in that way:

property int value: isMaxUser ? user.maxUserCount : admin.maxAdminCount
property int maxCount: convert(value)
onValueChanged: {
    maxCount = convert(value)
}

I hope this issue won't reproduce anymore...

Roumed

@Manta-Ray
Which binding doesn't work?
Could you give us a trace logged code with logs?

Eeli K

@Roumed said in Sometimes QML property binding doesn't updates:

Could you give us a trace logged code with logs?

Or at least the whole project/code and instructions how to try to reproduce the problem. This looks interesting if it really does happen without a bug in your code.

Manta Ray

Sometimes this:

property int maxCount: convert(isMaxUser ? user.maxUserCount : admin.maxAdminCount)

doesn't work. I see the log message in backend before emit signal user.maxUserCountChanged, then I see that label doesn't changes and doesn't see log message in convert method. So I decided that sometimes, depends on CPU usage or count of processes in the system or something else this method doesn't call. It happens very-very seldom, maybe 1 from100 times.

Eeli K

@Manta-Ray What is convert() ?

Manta Ray

@Eeli-K This is the method which rounds values.
I can't show you the original code, but it looks like:

.cpp
if(...){
    print("Max user count changed:  %d", maxUserCount);
    emit maxUserCountChanges();
}

.qml
property int maxCount: convert(isMaxUser ? user.maxUserCount : admin.maxAdminCount)

onMaxCountChanged:{
    console.log("Max count changed: ", maxCount)
}

Label{
	text: maxCount.toString()
}

function convert(int val){
    console.log("Convert value: ", val)
    .......
}

During work I see the next logs:
123.12 Max user count changed: 4

And never see:
Convert value: 4
or
Max count changed: 4

It works almost always but sometimes...

Roumed

@Manta-Ray
We definitely need to know more about your environment.

Manta Ray

@Roumed Application is working on ubuntu 14.04. I don't have an information about hardware.

Eeli K

@Manta-Ray
If this really is a bug in Qt, it's important. Could you at least create a project, as small as possible, which would produce the same problem? It's impossible to help, find the bug and fix it if you can't show exactly how it can be reproduced, especially when it's random. Also information about the hardware is necessary if it doesn't happen to others with their platform.