Basics. How to use <a href> equivalent to display new content?

Andrey Volodin

Dear all,

I do create a widget with mainwindow ui.
I want it to open a different ui on a link press as does internet browser do on a hyperlink press. New content of a window is supposed to have different buttons set and different background image &c.
So far I have found an instruction on that : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5064815/launching-new-form-by-a-button-click-in-qt-gui-application
I have added a second ui form to the project.

![http://imgur.com/a/XKN8H](image url)
screenshoot

And in the first ui file I added a button, and I want to display a new content in the same window on buttonpress event. And I addd the second .ui for that.

But it turned out that the button at mainwindow .ui doesn't know about second.ui as a receiver.

http://imgur.com/e3YBfmP.

How to get navigation there?
To browse content in a window like in an internet browser.

Basically, I wanted an element appeared on buttonpress.

But it turned out that all added to a form elements appear at once.

I decided that use of ui files as html equivalent could be used to reflect new window content.

May be there is an attribute for elements like "not to display on run, but only on event"?

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perhaps I should try the way described there
http://www.qtcentre.org/threads/65390-Navigation-between-windows
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is there a way to convert element CentralWidget to stacketWidget?
is there is a way to add few central widget elements?
But the "Receiver" list still doesnt reflect page1 page2 of stackwidget to determine which page to display. It has the general stackWidget entry only.
How to address its subsections?
How to bind its subsections to a button press or to something?
haha,I found arrows.
Is there a chance to use buttonpress instead?

jsulm

@Andrey-Volodin Sounds like you could use http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qstackedwidget.html for this

Andrey Volodin

thank you for your reply.
It seems that the stackwidgets have two arrows next+back
is there a chance to use button push or customize arrows somwhow from GUI?
is there a way to get navigation on sides of 3D cube which rotates on touch and each side of which represent .ui or a form or an interface or a page?

the_

@Andrey-Volodin

No, QStackedWidget does not have native arrow buttons to navigate.

But you may see some kind of buttons in the QtDesigner to switch between the pages for creating them.

jsulm

@Andrey-Volodin said in Basics. How to use <a href> equivalent to display new content?:

It seems that the stackwidgets have two arrows next+back

No, QStackedWidget itself has no arrows. What you mean is probably what you see in Designer, but it's only in Designer.

"is there a chance to use button push or customize arrows somwhow from GUI?" - sure, you can use what ever you want. Please read documentation, there is an example:

QComboBox *pageComboBox = new QComboBox;
    pageComboBox->addItem(tr("Page 1"));
    pageComboBox->addItem(tr("Page 2"));
    pageComboBox->addItem(tr("Page 3"));
    connect(pageComboBox, SIGNAL(activated(int)),
            stackedWidget, SLOT(setCurrentIndex(int)));

This example is using QComboBox, but you can use QPushButton and setCurrentIndex(int) slot.

"is there a way to get navigation on sides of 3D cube which rotates on touch and each side of which represent .ui or a form or an interface or a page?" - yes, but this is something you need to implement.

Andrey Volodin

no, it wont change pages with Combo Box http://imgur.com/kkudCQI
though of 9 comboboxes one now changes page

the_

@Andrey-Volodin

What exactly did you try? This screenshot does not help much as it is the Designer View...

Andrey Volodin

shall I refrain from using of Qt Designer in favor of text editor?
https://pastebin.com/x9qLmd6z

Andrey Volodin

to where should I paste the fragment:
QComboBox *pageComboBox = new QComboBox;
pageComboBox->addItem(tr("Page 1"));
pageComboBox->addItem(tr("Page 2"));
pageComboBox->addItem(tr("Page 3"));
connect(pageComboBox, SIGNAL(activated(int)),
stackedWidget, SLOT(setCurrentIndex(int)));
?

jsulm

@Andrey-Volodin Depends on where you have this stacked widget. If it is in main window, then in mainwindow constructor. If you're using Designer then no need to use this code snippet: add the combo box in designer and connect signal and slot in Designer.

Andrey Volodin

thank you for your reply
it is getting working and now it works finally with the combobox

Andrey Volodin

QPushButton and setCurrentIndex(int) slot.

No, I can not use the above. The mainwindow constructor which seems to be a designer doesn't seem to have that option in a list for a pushbutton item.

jsulm

@Andrey-Volodin Well, setCurrentIndex(int) needs a parameter, so you cannot connect the push button directly. But you can add a slot in main window, connect it to the push button and in this slot call setCurrentIndex(int).

Andrey Volodin

https://github.com/AndreV84/pilot
it seems that there should be 4 objects defined:
button , the main window, stack widget , as in
http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/signalsandslots.html
how to add trigger? comparator? logical + or -?

jsulm

@Andrey-Volodin said in Basics. How to use <a href> equivalent to display new content?:

how to add trigger

What trigger do you mean?

Andrey Volodin

on button press a call is passed to a slot

how to make the slot to change stackWidget page on the button press

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event-driven_programming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmitt_trigger
it seems that the button and the stackwidget are always in separate sets, despite a new slot and a new signal created

jsulm

@Andrey-Volodin Not sure I understand the problem. Did you read http://doc.qt.io/qt-5.8/signalsandslots.html ?
You just define a slot in lets say MainWindow:

// Header
class MainWindow:
{
private slots:
    void onButtonPressed();
};

// cpp
MainWindow::MainWindow()
{
    connect(ui->pushButton, SIGNAL(clicked(bool)), this, SLOT(onButtonPressed()));
}

void MainWindow::onButtonPressed()
{
    int pageToShow = 1; // you need to find out what the next index is
    ui->stackedWidget->setCurrentIndex(pageToShow);
}

"it seems that the button and the stackwidget are always in separate sets, despite a new slot and a new signal created" - sorry, I don't understand. What do you mean by "sets"?

Andrey Volodin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_(mathematics)
I used to read: http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/signalsandslots.html , which seems to be a mirror of the link http://doc.qt.io/qt-5.8/signalsandslots.html .
I tried to perform the task in Designer, without sources editing manually. It doesnt appear to seem possible.

jsulm

@Andrey-Volodin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_(mathematics) - still don't understand what you mean with sets in this particular context.
In designer you can connect existing signals/slots. You can even define a new slot in Designer, but you have to implement it by yourself.
That means: add slot to main window in Designer, connect this slot to the clicked() signal of your push button in Designer, implement the slot in main window.

Andrey Volodin

@jsulm said in Basics. How to use <a href> equivalent to display new content?:

In designer you can connect existing signals/slots. You can even define a new slot in Designer, but you have to implement it by yourself.
That means: add slot to main window in Designer, connect this slot to the clicked() signal of your push button in Designer, implement the slot in main window.

The above is what I have done ;
How to connect the stackWidgets call with the above?
What do you mean saying "implement the slot in mine window" ?