Trouble with passing a value from lineedit to a Graph

pj0909

Hi All,

I am new to Qt and started exploring some of its features. I am stuck in a problem. In the form.ui I have a lineedit, a push button and a widget (promoted to QCustomPlot). My requirement is when a value is entered in lineedit and after push button is pressed, it should create a line on the graph. My code is -

void Form:n_refForceValueButton_clicked()
{
float ref_force_value = ui->lineEdit->text().toFloat(); // to read the value entered in line edit in form.ui

// to take the value of lineedit and pass on to y co-ordinate of graph to have a straight line
QCPItemLine *lineX = new QCPItemLine(ui->customPlotX);
lineX->start->setCoords(0,ref_force_value);
lineX->end->setCoords(1000000,ref_force_value);
lineX->setPen(QPen(Qt::black));

QCPItemLine *lineY = new QCPItemLine(ui->customPlotY);
lineY->start->setCoords(0,ref_force_value);
lineY->end->setCoords(1000000,ref_force_value);
lineY->setPen(QPen(Qt::black));

QCPItemLine *lineZ = new QCPItemLine(ui->customPlotZ);
lineZ->start->setCoords(0,ref_force_value);
lineZ->end->setCoords(1000000,ref_force_value);
lineZ->setPen(QPen(Qt::black));

QCPItemLine *line = new QCPItemLine(ui->customPlot);
line->start->setCoords(0,ref_force_value);
line->end->setCoords(1000000,ref_force_value);
line->setPen(QPen(Qt::black));

if (ref_force_value>0)
{
QString msg = "Reference Force Value is set to " + QString::number(ref_force_value) + "mN."; // to combine     string and float

QMessageBox::information(this, "Reference Force Value", msg); // to pop-up window displaying message when button is clicked
}
}

As you can see from the code I have 4 widgets (all promoted to QCustomPlot). When I enter the value in lineedit and click the button it works well with pop-up window and it displays the message but it doesn't pass the value entered in lineedit on to the graph. Can anyone please guide me on my code. I am using Qt5.8 on Windows 10 with MinGW compiler.

Thank you for your time and knowledge.

mrjj

Hi and welcome
Just as a note: QCustomPlot is not part of Qt :)

I have used it however and its unclear if you have all the other needed code in place

If you see here
http://www.qcustomplot.com/index.php/tutorials/basicplotting

There is
// create graph and assign data to it:
customPlot->addGraph();
customPlot->graph(0)->setData(x, y)

which is critical and so on :)

pj0909

Hi mrjj,

Thank you for the reply. Yes, I have all the essentials of QCustomPlot.

I figured out the solution. I didn't set the linestyle and scatterstyle therefore I was not able to see the plot as it was by default in white color. Once those parameters are set I can see the plot now and it works as expected.