Unsolved QPlainTextEdit::QCloseEvent

[Mehodin]

Hello,

I'm trying to connect the QCloseEvent signal to a function of mine.

connect(configText, &QPlainTextEdit::closeEvent, this, &Firefly::clearSubMenus);

Where configText is a QPlainTextEdit

The error im getting is:

'QWidget::closeEvent': cannot access protected member declared in class QWidget

How do i get around this, because this HAS to be possible.

Thanks in advance!

[aha_1980]

Hi @Mehodin

one way to get access to protected members is to use subclassing. There you have full access.

Edit: closeEvent is no signal, it's a virtual function you can override. the link provides an example.

Regards

[mrjj]

Hi
One note.
Are you using configText as a window ?
If not, im not sure closeEvent Will be triggered unless you call
QWidget::close() yourself.
If configText is a widget inside a form, should you not hook up to the forms
close event ?

[Mehodin]

well, I am using configText as a separate window using configText->show().
So it's a separate window.

[Mehodin]

@mrjj do you maybe know a different way to just clear() it when it closes?

[mrjj]

@Mehodin
Hi
When its a window, then close Event seems pretty appropriate if you want to perform
some task when extra floating window is closed.

[Mehodin]

@mrjj yeah but it's not a real QWindow, it's just a widget that's floating.

[mrjj]

@Mehodin
Hi
Well any widget, you dont give a parent, will set the Be a Window flags and
act like a window with border etc. So using closeEvent seems fine
to do some last call clean up when its closed.
Only downside is that you have to subclass QPlainTextEdit to have access to it.

But since you want to call something in Firefly , you might want to do something like

#ifndef MYPLAINTEXT_H
#define MYPLAINTEXT_H

#include <QPlainTextEdit>

class MyPlainText : public QPlainTextEdit
{
    Q_OBJECT
public:
    explicit MyPlainText(QWidget *parent = nullptr) : QPlainTextEdit(parent) {}
signals:
    void Closing(); // define new signal

protected:
    virtual void closeEvent(QCloseEvent *event) override
    {
        emit Closing(); // send signal before closing.
        QPlainTextEdit::closeEvent(event);
    }
};

#endif // MYPLAINTEXT_H

and hook the new signal Closing to Firefly::clearSubMenus
from outside. That way, MyPlainText dont need any access to Firefly.

[Mehodin]

@mrjj

That's somehow giving me a lot of errors though when using it.

[mrjj]

Hi
Hmm. compiles here.
How did you use it ?
should be placed in its own .h file and included in the project.
Then you hook up new signal and show the widget.

void MainWindow::on_pushButton_clicked()
{
    auto *win = new MyPlainText();
    win->setAttribute(Qt::WA_DeleteOnClose);
    connect(win, &MyPlainText::Closing, this, []() {
        qDebug() << "win is closing";
    });

    win->show();
}

test project
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hg8xz8uour34cc8/untitled79.zip?dl=0

[Mehodin]

#ifndef MYPLAINTEXT_H
#define MYPLAINTEXT_H

#include <QPlainTextEdit>

class textWindow : public QPlainTextEdit
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
explicit textWindow(QWidget *parent = nullptr) : QPlainTextEdit(parent) {}
signals:
void Closing(); // define new signal

protected:
virtual void closeEvent(QCloseEvent *event) override
{
emit Closing(); // send signal before closing.
QPlainTextEdit::closeEvent(event);
}
};
#endif

in a .h file

proxyText = new textWindow();
configText = new textWindow();
comboText = new textWindow();
connect(proxyText, &textWindow::Closing, this, &Firefly::clearSubMenus);
//connect(configText, &textWindow::Closing, this, &Firefly::clearSubMenus);
//connect(comboText, &textWindow::Closing, this, &Firefly::clearSubMenus);

in firefly.cpp

@mrjj

[SGaist]

Hi,

What does clearSubMenus look like ?

[Mehodin]

@SGaist

The 3 text edits ->clear(); (on phone right now)

[SGaist]

I meant it signature.