How to pass a QTextEdit to signal/slot mechanism - qt

I have read some topics here about signals and slots and its parameters but found nothing about following problem:
I am working with Qt 5.7
I simply have 2 classes, inside 1st, I want to emit signal with string message and location(or specific object) where to display it.
Now it is like this: I have 1st class where I emit signal :
emit signalWriteToTextEdit("hallo","textEdit_3");
What I want to do is somehow pass as the second argument an object like textEdit. No QString as its now.
Inside 2nd class is the slot:
void writeToTextEdit(QString info, QString where){
where.append(info); //I would like to do something like this
}
Just dont know how to consider that second parameter "where" as accessible object for example textEdit, so I could change its content.
I am thinking also if this is possible:
Is there some method for Ui object like finding elements by name?
Is it possible to go with foreach over all elements in ui and check their names...? I tried but dont know how to go through that.
If its not clear, I will explain more

After a little digging, I came across the QObject::findChild function. This will allow a string lookup recursively through the UI, those I am unsure of performance.
Edit for more detail:
Returns the child of this object that can be cast into type T and that is called name, or 0 if there is no such object. Omitting the name argument causes all object names to be matched. The search is performed recursively.
If there is more than one child matching the search, the most direct
ancestor is returned. If there are several direct ancestors, it is
undefined which one will be returned. In that case, findChildren()
should be used.

Just use QWidget* or QObject* (if it is not always a widget) as the argument type
signals:
void writeToTextEdit(const QString &what, QWidget *where)
or if it is always a QTextEdit even more specifically
signals:
void writeToTextEdit(const QString &what, QTextEdit *where)
Though it is not clear why the code needs to emit a signal if it has access to the target object, it could simply call setText directly

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How to automatically update a QLineEdit with the value of another variable

I've got an std::string object called str;
I've also got an QLineEdit object called line_edit.
I need that str reflects whatever the user writes in line_edit, this I know how to do trough signals and slots.
But I also need that whenever str changes , QLineEdit automatically displays the new contents of str.
How can I do this?
Is it MVC what I need? I've been reading about it but I can't get it yet.
Also, examples I've read try to keep mutually updated subobjects of QWidget
which makes me think there is some magic happening in there.
How can I achieve that reactivity?
First of all it might be easier to use QString instead of std::string.
You can call line_edit->setText(str); to update line_edit from your code.
You can use the signal QLineEdit::textChanged to modify the content of str when writing to the QLineEdit.
There are multiple ways of handling signals, one way would be to use QObject::connect
It might look like this: QObject::connect(line_edit, &QLineEdit::textChanged, this, &YourClassName::setText);
And then you create setText(){ str = line_edit->text}

Calling QStandardItem mimeData() method

In my app I have a QTableView and a QTreeView. I need to drag from the table view and drop in the tree view. I had this working, but I reworked the app so that the GUI elements were created in C++ and this this has stopped working.
I can pick up an item from the table and drop it on the tree - all looks fine. However, the table model's mimeData() method is not called, so the dropped data is incomplete.
How do I get the drag drop operation to call the mimeData() method?
The tables' model is based on a QStandardItemModel.
Had a similar issue with my code. Make sure you override the mimeData properly. For example, some examples show the prototype as:
QMimeData *mimeData(const QList<QTreeWidgetItem *> &items) const;
while the correct prototype is:
QMimeData * mimeData(const QList<QTreeWidgetItem *> items) const;
(note the missing reference in front of items). And if you implement it incorrectly, you're not overriding the mimeData() but implementing another mimeData() function.
An easy check to make sure you're doing it right is to declare a function you want to override, but change its return type from QMimeData* to bool, such as:
bool mimeData(const QList<QTreeWidgetItem *> items) const;
If you are overriding a correct function, your code will not compile due to conflicting return type (you're not allowed to override only the return type). If your code compiles fine, you are not overriding anything but instead declaring a new function. Check the function signature.

Why do qobject_cast and dynamic_cast fail in a slot connected to QWidget::destroyed?

I have a class Subclass, subclassed from QObject. I want to know when the item is deleted, so I connected this slot to the QWidget::destroyed() signal inherited by Subclass. But when I try to cast the argument to with qobject_cast, I get a zero result. The same result obtains from C++'s dynamic_cast. Why?
void MyClass::mySlot( QObject * item )
{
qobject_cast<Subclass*>(item); // returns zero, even though item is a Subclass*
}
The reason is that by the time QObject::destroyed() is emitted, your derived class Subclass has already been destroyed. This is implied by the C++ order of destruction. Also, this question deals with a similar issue.
To get around this, you could either use C-style pointer casting (which is dispreferred), or rewrite your code to use a QObject instead.

Can I pass an argument to the slot function when using QObject::connect?

Qt4.8.5
QObject::connect(button,SIGNAL(clicked()),label,SLOT(setText("dd"));
The Qt Creator tell me It's wrong . What's the problem ?
That you can't pass arguments in a connect() statement. You need a "trampoline" slot that sets the text of your label (or, in Qt 5, you might choose to use a lambda).
For instance, by using a subclass:
class MyLabel : public QLabel {
Q_OBJECT
public slots:
void setTextToFoo() { setText("foo"); }
};
// ...
connect(button,SIGNAL(clicked()),label,SLOT(setTextToFoo());
It depends what exactly you are trying to achieve, to be honest, the example code you provided is not very functional, is "dd" a particular static value you are using, or potentially some other string? Where does it come from, is it in the scope of the called, or is it sent by the caller, which is the usual practice when sending arguments to slots.
Either way, in order to make a connect statement the first requirement is for the arguments to match, clicked() has no arguments while setText() has one, so there is a mismatch. As of how to resolve that mismatch, the easiest way is to use simple wrappers, although you can use a QSignalMapper and as of Qt5, lambdas and std::bind.
For starters, you cannot specify the actual argument instance in the connect statement, even with arguments on both sides you only need to specify the types to help resolve overloads (it is terrible with the new connection syntax in Qt5), and not any actual identifiers or literals.
In case of the more usual scenario, where the data is send to the slot by the caller, the identifier or literal is specified in the emit signal(value) statement. Since you don't have clicked(const QString &) you need a wrapper slot that you connect to clicked() and emit with the value in that wrapper slot, or subclass the button and add your own overload of clicked(QString).
In case the value is in the scope of the called, then subclassing doesn't make much sense, all you need is the wrapper slot in the scope of the called object.
If you want more, you will have to use Qt 5, whose syntax is significantly more powerful.
If the question is whats wrong, just remember the parameter number must be the same for the Signal and the Slot. Asking a collegue and according the Peppe, setText(QString) wait for One parameter and the Clicked() is empty...A custom slot is to call the setText() method indirectly.
You can look that : http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/widgets-calculator.html
It uses the QWidget, an important part of Qt interfaces beside QML.

Passing a class through a signal/slot setup in Qt

I'm trying to get the information of several of a class' member variables on the receiving end of a slot/signal setup, so I'd like to pass the entire class through. Unfortunately, after the class has been passed, the member variables seem to be empty. Here's some code snippets:
This sets up the signal to pass the class
signals:
void selected(const ControlIcon *controlIcon);
this is the slot/signal connection
connect(controllerList->serialController, SIGNAL(selected(const ControlIcon*)),
infoView, SLOT(serialControllerSelected(const ControlIcon*)));
I emit the signal from within the class to be passed
emit selected(this);
Here's the code to call on the class' member data
QLabel *ASCIIStringHolder = new QLabel;
ASCIIStringHolder->setText(controlIcon->m_ASCIIString);
Nothing shows up in the label, and when I set a breakpoint, I can see that there's nothing inside m_ASCIIString.
I looked to make sure that it was being assigned some text in the first place, and that's not the problem. I also tried the signal/slot setup with and without const.
Any help would be appreciated.
Qt signal/slot mechanism needs metainformation about your custom types, to be able to send them in emitted signals.
To achieve that, register your type with qRegisterMetaType<MyDataType>("MyDataType");
Consult official QMetaType documentation for more information about this.
First, since you are using an auto connection, do both sender and receiver live in the same thread? If not, it could happen that the call is queued and when it arrives, the data in the sender was already modified. You could try to use a direct connection just to make sure this isn't the problem.
Second, just for the fun of it, did you try to access the sender by using qobject_cast<ControlIcon*>(sender()) within the slot? This is how it is usually done if the signal doesn't pass this as an argument. Like this:
QLabel *ASCIIStringHolder = new QLabel;
// this is instead of the argument to the slot:
ControlIcon *controlIcon = qobject_cast<ControlIcon*>(sender());
ASCIIStringHolder->setText(controlIcon->m_ASCIIString);
The signal can't be declared to be passing a class and then actually pass the child of that class. I changed the signal, slot, and connect() to be SerialController (the child of ControllerIcon), and everything worked fine.

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