accessing a ui.label from main.cpp in QT - qt

Question

i am trying to take a feedback data which is published from arduino and subscribed to my GUI created in QT.
Now i have main.cpp and mainwindow.cpp.
main.cpp
#include <QtGui>
#include <ros/ros.h>
#include <QApplication>
#include "../include/abc/main_window.hpp"
#include "std_msgs/String.h"
#include <std_msgs/UInt16.h>
#include <QMainWindow>
#include <std_msgs/Float32.h>
void chatterCallback(const std_msgs::UInt16 &fb_msg){
ROS_INFO("Feedback: [%f]", fb_msg.data);
ui.label_6->setText(QString("%1").arg(fb_msg.data));
}
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
ros::init(argc, argv, "talker");
ros::NodeHandle n;
ros::Subscriber sub = n.subscribe("feedback",1000, chatterCallback);
ros::spinOnce();
QApplication app(argc, argv);
abc::MainWindow w(argc,argv);
w.show();
w.setWindowTitle("GUI for Controlling Servo Motor");
app.connect(&app, SIGNAL(lastWindowClosed()), &app, SLOT(quit()));
int result = app.exec();
return result;}
mainwindow.cpp
namespace abc {
using namespace Qt;
QSerialPort *serial;
MainWindow::MainWindow(int argc, char** argv, QWidget *parent)
: QMainWindow(parent)
, qnode(argc,argv)
{
ui.setupUi(this);
}
MainWindow::~MainWindow() {}
void MainWindow::on_horizontalSlider_valueChanged(int value)
{
ui.label_5->setText(QString("%1").arg(value));
msg.data = ui.label_5->text().toUInt();
ROS_INFO("%d", msg.data);
chatter_pub.publish(msg);
ros::spinOnce();
}
main_window.hpp
#ifndef abc_MAIN_WINDOW_H
#define abc_MAIN_WINDOW_H
#include <QtGui/QMainWindow>
#include "ui_main_window.h"
#include "qnode.hpp"
#include <QtSerialPort/QSerialPort>
#include <ros/ros.h>
#include "std_msgs/UInt16.h"
namespace abc {
class MainWindow : public QMainWindow {
Q_OBJECT
public:
MainWindow(int argc, char** argv, QWidget *parent = 0);
~MainWindow();
public Q_SLOTS:
private:
Ui::MainWindowDesign ui;
ros::NodeHandle n;
ros::Publisher chatter_pub = n.advertise <std_msgs::UInt16> ("chatter", 1000);
QSerialPort *arduino;
QNode qnode;
};
} // namespace abc
#endif // abc_MAIN_WINDOW_H
Now when i run this code, it shows me that UI is not declared in main.cpp.
I wanted to display the data from feedback to label_6 (TextBox). The data is only available in main.cpp, any suggestions are highly appreciable.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You will have to pass the fb_msg.data as an argument to the MainWindow constructor. Then you can set the UI element in the MainWindow thread.
Alternatively once you create the MainWindow instance in your main, you can emit a signal which you catch and process in the MainWindow thread.
You cannot modify the UI elements from a different thread.