acessing button created in a loop

[amruz]

in my program i am creating many buttons in a loop as shown below

for(i=0;i<7;i++)

{

    for(j=0;j<7;j++)

    {

        if(count<=26)

        {

                QString str= QChar(s);

                //QString myString = "a";

                button[i][j] = new QPushButton(str);

                s=s+1;

                button[i][j]->setText(str);

                controlsLayout->addWidget(button[i][j], i, j);

                connect(button[i][j], SIGNAL(clicked()), this ,SLOT(buttonWasClicked()));

            count++;

        }

    }

}

i now need to aces these buttons using signal and slots..now what can i do is write a common program for all buttons. but i need to write separate code for each button click of the buttons above..can anyone guide me properly how to access each of the buttons clicked event separately

[SGaist]

Hi,

What do you mean by "separated code" ? What will be the differences ?

[mrjj]

Hi
You cannot assign different names for the slot function (when using loop) ,
unless you resort to some ugly macros.

To have different slots for the clicked(), you would have to connect to each
using another slot name.

However, in buttonWasClicked() you can use sender()

like

QPushButton* button = qobject_cast<QPushButton*>(sender());
if( button != NULL ) {
button point to the button that emitted the clicked()
}

There is also
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/signalsandslots.html#advanced-signals-and-slots-usage
"The QSignalMapper class is provided for situations where many signals are connected to the same slot and the slot needs to handle each signal differently."

which sounds like what you want?

[amruz]

@SGaist i mean for each button click i want to print each character. basically i am trying to write a keyboard program..

[amruz]

@mrjj thanks a lot

[SGaist]

The QSignalMapper is the way to go and it will be simpler.