[SOLVED] saving a variable to state

[kalster]

is it possible to store the state of a variable?

[giesbert]

This is a weird question, right?
Sure, you can,. write it to a file, to a QSettings, to a database, wherever you want.

[Eddy]

Do you mean storing the value in a variable and when you stop/start your program, it still knows that value?

In that case have a look at "QSettings":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.7/qsettings.html.
There is also an "example":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.7/qsettings.html

[kalster]

[quote author="Gerolf" date="1312610870"]This is a weird question, right?
Sure, you can,. write it to a file, to a QSettings, to a database, wherever you want.[/quote]

no this is not a weird question because i am new here and i did not know it could be done :)

[kalster]

I read the docs and tried to code it and i cant get it to work. here is my code.

@char tt =1;
settings.setValue("variable", tt);@

[giesbert]

[quote author="kalster" date="1312611661"][quote author="Gerolf" date="1312610870"]This is a weird question, right?
Sure, you can,. write it to a file, to a QSettings, to a database, wherever you want.[/quote]

no this is not a weird question because i am new here and i did not know it could be done :)[/quote]

It is weird if you look at your last posts "Saving the result of a check box":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/forums/viewthread/8485/ What is the difference of a value of a widget to the value of a variable?

[giesbert]

[quote author="kalster" date="1312614055"]I read the docs and tried to code it and i cant get it to work. here is my code.

@
char tt =1;
settings.setValue("variable", tt);
@
[/quote]

Ok, so your problem is to store a variable of type char which is used as byte (number) not as character. Here comes your problem:

• setValue gets a QVariant. QVariant has some implicit constructors which can create the QVariant from bool, int, QString, QChar, ...
• QChar can be constructed by a char, but it interprets the value as a character, and decimal 1 is not a valid printable character.

That's why it does not work as expected.

This should work:

@
int tt =1;
settings.setValue("variable", tt);
@

[kalster]

changing the code to int did not work.

[giesbert]

What does not work?
What did you see, what did you expect?
How do you check, whether it works or not?

[kalster]

I have config.ini stored in the settings function. I was expecting to see variable from my settings.setValue stored in the config.ini file when i ran the code. I seen nothing. I therefore assumed the code was not working correctly.

@QSettings settings("config.ini", QSettings::IniFormat);
settings.setValue("variable", tt);@

[lgeyer]

I can confirm that the code you posted creates a config.ini in the working directory containing the value for your variable.

Is your file not created or just empty?
Do you have enough permissions to write to the directory / file?

[kalster]

I had two ini files being created when i should have had one. somewhere else in the code one ini file was created as myconfig.ini and the other as config.ini for the tt variable. I was looking in myconfig.ini when i should have been looking in config.ini.

the code works. thank you

[kalster]

[quote author="Gerolf" date="1312617901"]Ok, so your problem is to store a variable of type char which is used as byte (number) not as character. Here comes your problem:

• setValue gets a QVariant. QVariant has some implicit constructors which can create the QVariant from bool, int, QString, QChar, ...
• QChar can be constructed by a char, but it interprets the value as a character, and decimal 1 is not a valid printable character.

That's why it does not work as expected.[/quote]

I don't understand what you are saying because the code works when i use char tt=1; it seems that i had the code correct right from the beginning. I just got mixed up with the two ini files that were created.

nevertheless, the code works great. thank you Gerolf for your help