QMessageBox showing "Loading...."

Guapo

I´m trying to put a message during the loading of my library.

QMessageBox msgBox;
msgBox.setText("Lendo Biblioteca SAT.");
msgBox.setWindowTitle("Aguarde carregamento...");
msgBox.setWindowModality(Qt::WindowModal);
msgBox.setVisible(true);
msgBox.show();

This code doesn´t show the text, because it´s transparent and it´s showing the background.

What am i doing wrong?

thanks

SGaist

Hi,

What do you mean by "because it's transparent" ? What exactly is transparent ?

Venkatesh V

@Guapo

Hi,

You can set stylesheet to the messageBox text.
Try this,
msgBox.setstylesheet(background-color:#0F1418;color:white;font-size:11pt;)

Guapo

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Good Morning!

This is what I mean transparent....my messagebox doesn´t a background color.

QMessageBox msgBox;
msgBox.setText("Lendo Biblioteca SAT.");
msgBox.setWindowTitle("Aguarde carregamento...");
msgBox.setWindowModality(Qt::WindowModal);
msgBox.setStyleSheet("background-color:#0F1418;color:white;font-size:11pt");
msgBox.setVisible(true);
msgBox.show();

@Venkatesh-V ... I tried your sugestion and the results are the same.

tks

Vinod Kuntoji

@Guapo ,

Try ,
msgBox.exec() instead of msgBox.show();

mostefa

@Guapo said in Qmessagebox showing "Loading....":

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Good Morning!

This is what I mean transparent....my messagebox doesn´t a background color.
QMessageBox msgBox;
msgBox.setText("Lendo Biblioteca SAT.");
msgBox.setWindowTitle("Aguarde carregamento...");
msgBox.setWindowModality(Qt::WindowModal);
msgBox.setStyleSheet("background-color:#0F1418;color:white;font-size:11pt");
msgBox.setVisible(true);
msgBox.show();
@Venkatesh-V ... I tried your sugestion and the results are the same.

tks

Normally the QMessageBox is not transparent by default , are you changing stylesheet, style or palette somewhere else in your code?

I don't think that this part of the code is responsible of making messagebox transparent

QMessageBox msgBox;
msgBox.setText("Lendo Biblioteca SAT.");
msgBox.setWindowTitle("Aguarde carregamento...");
msgBox.setWindowModality(Qt::WindowModal);
msgBox.setStyleSheet("background-color:#0F1418;color:white;font-size:11pt");
msgBox.setVisible(true);
msgBox.show();

Can you share other parts of your code?

Guapo

I didn´t change the stylesheet.

This is the second class called in my program...the first one is for login.

If I change msgBox.show to msgBox.exec...it´s ok, but don´t load my library until press "ok" button.

This is the entire constructor class:

Principal::Principal(QWidget *parent) :
    QDialog(parent),
    ui(new Ui::Principal)
{
    ui->setupUi(this);

    QPixmap pix(QString("%1%2").arg(path_images,"selo_sabordelivery.png"));
    ui->label_pic_2->setPixmap(pix);
    ui->label_pic_3->setPixmap(pix);
    ui->label_pic_3->setPixmap(pix);
    ui->label_pic_4->setPixmap(pix);
    ui->label_pic_5->setPixmap(pix);

    ui->label_nomeuser->setText(user_logado);
    ui->label_status->setText(Utility::JobTitle(user_tipo));
    ui->label_nome->setText(user_nome);

    qDebug() << user_logado << user_status;

    conn.connOpen();

    QDateTime timeConvertor=QDateTime::currentDateTime();
    QDateTime licenca;

    QString validade=lerlicenca();
    licenca = QDateTime::fromString(validade, "dd/MM/yyyy");
    if(licenca.toTime_t()>=timeConvertor.toTime_t())
        validade_ok=true;
    qDebug() << validade << validade_ok;

    Acesso();

    ui->label_versao->setText(VERSAO);

    model_loja=new QSqlQueryModel();
    lerloja(model_loja);
    config=model_loja->record(0).value(4).toInt();
    qDebug() << config;

    LerModos();

    QMessageBox msgBox;
    msgBox.setText("Lendo Biblioteca SAT.");
    msgBox.setWindowTitle("Aguarde carregamento...");
    msgBox.setWindowModality(Qt::WindowModal);
    msgBox.setStyleSheet("background-color:#0F1418;color:white;font-size:11pt");
    msgBox.setVisible(true);
    msgBox.show();

    if(nomesat!="")
        carregarDarumaFramework(this);
}

tks

Venkatesh V

@Guapo said in Qmessagebox showing "Loading....":

msgBox.setWindowModality(Qt::WindowModal);

instead can you try by Qt::ApplicationModal

jsulm

@Guapo I don't think the dialog is transparent. It looks more like your dialog/app is hanging and so not updating/painting the UI. Do you block the event loop somewhere?

JonB

Exactly as @jsulm says above. No stylesheet, rather this is what a window/message box looks like when it has "started" to be shown but has not "completed", as in some shape or form your app is "blocking"/looping" where it needs to allow the main event loop to be processing events....

Guapo

@Venkatesh-V said in Qmessagebox showing "Loading....":

ApplicationModal

I tried ApplicationModal, NonModal and WindowModal...nok!

I have no blocked anything because this is the beginning of my aplication....

1)read user/password (first screen)
2)read third party library and open main screen. (2nd screen)

This messagebox is inside of the main screen constructor.

LerModos -> function read sqltable
...
carregarDarumaFramework -> load a huge third party library

tks

JonB

@Guapo
I could be way, way out on this... but I still suspect painting/event loop...
You're halfway thru constructing a "man screen" (QMainWindow?) when you decide to put up a message box...
Temporarily, why don't you move the message box later, after the main screen has been constructed and shown, and then see? At least that will eliminate stylesheets etc.

SGaist

To complement what @JNBarchan suggests, you should likely move the library loading part outside the constructor of your MainWidget since it's not related to the contraction of that widget.

Basically, create your gui elements and once that's done, trigger the loading/setup of whatever is needed.

Guapo

I did make some changes...

The first action of my app is ask for user/pass to login on.

There is a "Login" button to check these credencials.

After check user and pass I put this library load and my &$&#$%%@# QMessagebox.

When this load finish, I call the Principal class ( that shows the main screen ).

The old code had this Principal class constructor to load this library.

Now I´m loading this library out of any constructor and the results are exactly I the same.

JonB

@Guapo
But are you calling the Message Box creation after you have entered the main Qt event loop (like app.exec_()) which has allowed the main window to finish drawing correctly? Or, possibly, very early, before you have started creating your QMainWindow? Or, what's this "third-party library" you're talking about, could that be interfering, why can't you eliminate that and see if it's relevant?

It's up to you whether you want to try these things. But if you don't, I could be wrong but it seems to me nobody here is going to have a solution for you....

Guapo

@JNBarchan

The Login Class is my QMainWindow.

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication a(argc, argv);
    Login w;

    w.show();

    return a.exec();
}

........

Login::Login(QWidget *parent) :
    QMainWindow(parent),
    ui(new Ui::Login)
{
    ui->setupUi(this);

    path_images=QString("%1/images/").arg(QDir::currentPath());
    QPixmap pix(QString("%1%2").arg(path_images,"selo_sabordelivery.png"));
 //   QPixmap pix("/mnt/midia4/prj/qt/sql/sql_app/selo_sabordelivery.png");
    ui->label_pic->setPixmap(pix);

    if(!connOpen())
        ui->label_db->setText("Falha ao conectar DataBase");
    else
        ui->label_db->setText("DataBase Conectado...");
}

and I´m loading my library (.so) inside this class...This class has a GUI.

I put this message before loading library and didn´t show anything....I´m trying to understand what is going on.

tks

jsulm

@Guapo said in Qmessagebox showing "Loading....":

connOpen

what does this one do?

Guapo

connOpen only it´s makes a MySql conection

bool connOpen(){

    lerconf();  // read text file

    mydb=QSqlDatabase::addDatabase("QMYSQL");
    mydb.setDatabaseName("controle_restaurante");

    mydb.setHostName(database_nome);
    mydb.setPort(database_port.toInt());
    mydb.setUserName(database_user);
    mydb.setPassword(database_senha);

    if(!mydb.open()){
        qDebug() << "Falha ao conectar ao DataBase" << mydb.lastError().text();
        return false;
    }
    else{
        qDebug() << ("Conectado...");
        return true;
    }

}

SGaist

Do you mean you want to have some sort of splash screen while that library is being loaded ?

Out of curiosity, why do you need to load it by hand ?

Guapo

This is for restaurant app. Here in Brazil, all restaurants needs a device called SAT, connected to USB and the internet (to send all sales data to our beloved government) :). This device has its own library to create a sale invoice and send all data to government.
Load by hand is the way used to access the internal functions.
I don´t know another way to acess internal function from a .dll or .so .
My intention is open a screen to warning loading, because the user could think software is crashed. This library takes a several seconds to load.