[SOLVED] showing the dialog in a different way

[A Former User]

I am trying to load up the dialog in a different way so that the mainwindow does not continue to read the next line in code until the dialog is closed. is this possible? below is the code that i think will work but i am getting an error... expected primary-expression before '*' token

the loginBox is the name to my dialog.
@ui->stackedWidget->setCurrentWidget(loginBox);@

[Eddy]

Can you show us the code line where that error refers to? And also the ones just before it.

[A Former User]

A modal dialog via
@loginBox->exec();@
is probably what you want

[A Former User]

here are the two lines. the last line gives the error.
@login->show();
ui->stackedWidget->setCurrentWidget(loginBox);@

no i don't want login->exec because i can't see the mainwindow

[A Former User]

So, it's not really a dialog... Are you sure your error "expected primary-expression before ‘*’ token" is on that line?

[A Former User]

yes. the loginBox is the name of the dialog. expected primary-expression before ')' token. my first post did not save the error correctly.

[A Former User]

You'll have to show us the rest of the code (particularly where you are declaring you loginBox).

[A Former User]

i am not declaring the loginbox in the header. only at the mainwindow.cpp file.

@MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent) :
QMainWindow(parent),
ui(new Ui::MainWindow)
{
ui->setupUi(this);
login = new loginBox(this);

login->setModal(true);

login->show();
ui->stackedWidget->setCurrentWidget(loginBox);@

[mlong]

According to this code, you're not declaring it in the .cpp file either.

To declare the variable, you need to add (to your mainwindow.h file)

@
protected:
loginBox * login;
@