ComboBox Qt Creator - how to create an event? - qt

I have a Qt Form that contains 2 combo box messages. The second combobox message depends on the first combo box message. I mean that the dates from the second combobox message depends on the element that I select in the first combobox.
In this moment I have different dates in the first combobox. But the second combobox is not working. I need to creare a connect method or what?
Thx! APpreciate!
Could someone give me a short example?

It's fairly simple. A combobox emits the currentIndexChanged signal that also tells you the new index. Write a method that accepts an integer and changes the second combobox according to the integer (which is the index of the selection in combobox 1).
Here are some code sniplets from a working example.
Method declaration in your window/whatever class header:
public slots:
void setI1(int index);
Filling combobox 1, connecting the signal, e.g. in the constructor:
i1Box->addItem("Neutral", 0);
i1Box->addItem("2,856 K (Illuminant A, light bulb)", 2856);
// ...
connect(i1Box, SIGNAL(currentIndexChanged(int)),
this, SLOT(setI1(int)));
Implementation of the method:
void ViewerWindow::setI1(int index) {
// either use index directly, or, as in this case we have items holding an int:
int i1 = i1Box->itemData(index).value<int>();
// use the value to change second combobox here
}
If it does not work as expected, it is always helpful to print some debug output inside the method that should be called to see where it goes wrong in the chain.
Reference: http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/signalsandslots.html

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Select in QTableView from QAbstractTableModel item

I created TableView (by inhereting from QTableView) and Model (by inhereting from QAbstractTableModel) and implemented all their functions that I needed, but now I have to add strange feature - those objects (stored in models) have to be able to cause table view to select "their" row.
It comes from the fact that there is always graphic object related to them and whenever I click on a scene on a certain object, I wish to center on its representation in table view. Can I do this?
You model could implement a signal emitted every time you want to change the selection. Something like this:
void CMyModel::sigUpdateSelection(const QItemSelection & selection, QItemSelectionModel::SelectionFlags flags);
And than you could connect this signal to the QItemSelectionModel of your table view. This is how you get the selection model:
QTableView* view = new QTableView(parent);
QItemSelectionModel* selectionModel = view->selectionModel();
QItemSelectionModel has a slot select(). This is where you will connect your signal.
And this is how you will emit:
// Add to current selection
emit sigUpdateSelection(QItemSelection(indexLeft, indexRight), QItemSelectionModel::Select);
// Clear current selection and select new one
emit sigUpdateSelection(QItemSelection(indexLeft, indexRight), QItemSelectionModel::ClearAndSelect);

QListView with a QStandardItemModel and checkbox-enabled QStandardItems: How to capture *only* check-state changes?

I have the following (simplified) code to add QStandardItem's to a QStandardItemModel, attach the model to a QListView, and connect signals of my choice from the model to a function of my choice:
// MyUIContainer derives from QWidget
MyUIContainer::SetItems()
{
// Inside a member function where model/items are added to a QListView...
// This code does not show deletion of existing ItemSelectionModel
QStandardItemModel * model = new QStandardItemModel(ui->listView);
// In the real code, data is set in each QStandardItem
model->setItem( 0, new QStandardItem() );
model->setItem( 1, new QStandardItem() );
model->setItem( 2, new QStandardItem() );
connect(model,
SIGNAL(itemChanged(QStandardItem*)),
this,
SLOT(ReceiveChange(QStandardItem*)));
// I have also tried connecting to this signal - same problem described below
//connect(model, SIGNAL(dataChanged(const QModelIndex &, const QModelIndex &, const QVector<int>)), this, SLOT(ReceiveChange(const QModelIndex &, const QModelIndex &, const QVector<int>)));
ui->listView->setModel(model);
}
MyUIContainer::ReceiveChange(QStandardItem * item)
{
// Problem! This slot is called *three times*
// whenever the check state of an item changes
}
As the code comment indicates, there is a problem: The itemChanged() \ ReceiveChange() signal \ slot combination is called three times whenever the check state of a checkbox in the QListView changes once.
I understand that I can create my own Model class that is derived from QAbstractItemModel, and (if I understand correctly) handle mouse clicks in the view myself, emitting signals such as, for example, the itemChanged signal with a proper user-defined role so that a change in checkbox state can be handled only once.
However, the latter approach requires me to be careful to handle all possible scenarios of mouse clicks & keyboard events that could result in a changed checkbox state. I was hoping, and assuming, that this logic has been handled inside the Qt library itself, so that I don't have to - so that I can simply receive a signal (or some other message) when the check state of a checkbox changes.
Note that it seems that QListWidget (rather than QListView) also has exactly the same problem.
So, my question is: Without writing my own Model class derived from QAbstractItemModel - with its requirement that I myself write code to handle every possible way that a check state can change - how do I capture a changed check state (via a signal or otherwise) such that I can unambiguously capture every time a check state changes once and only once per check state change?
ADDENDUM
With apologies - as I took great care in ruling everything else out - Riateche's comment made it clear to me that the behavior is not supposed to work in the way this question highlighted. Finally, I have indeed tracked down the problem to the fact that I was calling connect() multiple times.

Can access only one item using QTreeWidget::itemAt

I have a QTreeWidget declared as following
QTreeWidget * datasiftIdpwTree;
datasiftIdpwTree->setColumnCount(2);
datasiftIdpwTree->headerItem()->setText(0, "Username");
datasiftIdpwTree->headerItem()->setText(1, "Api Key");
it is filled with data using the following slot
void Window::addDatasiftIdpw(QString username, QString apikey)
{
datasiftIdpwTree->addTopLevelItem(new QTreeWidgetItem(QStringList(username) << apikey));
}
I can live view the slot addind data to my tree, the probleme is when accessing the data.
I tried using
datasiftIdpwTree->itemAt(x,y)->text(0);
but however the value of x, y I use, it always point to the first item (the one produced when first calling addDatasiftIdpw)
Where did I go wrong ?
I made made a mistake between cooridnates and index. Accessing the i-th element is achived by:
datasiftIdpwThree->topLevelItem(i)->text(0);

How to refresh contents of QCombobox in QTableView

I have QTableView which has QComboBox in one of the columns. The combobox is displaying data from a vector which get updates when I click a button.
When I start the application the combobox displays all the items in vector. Now I press the button (which adds more items to the vector) but the combobox doesn't reflect new data in vector. It still shows old data. I am also emitting dataChanged() once the vector is updated but I don't see any change. data() function does get call in the model which does return all the elements of the vector, but setEditorData doesn't get call in delegate.
Am I missing something.
Thanks,
Dev
Then you need to do something like this function:
void updateComboBox(QComboBox *comboToUpdate, const QStringList & list )
{
QString curentText = comboToUpdate->currntText();
comboToUpdate->clear();
comboToUpdate->insertItems(list);
comboToUpdate->setCurrentIndex(comboToUpdate->findText(currentText));
}
Lines
QString currentText = comboToUpdate->currentText();
...
comboToUpdate->setCurrentIndex(comboToUpdate->findText(currentText));
are optional and used to don't change currentItem after selection.

Connecting multiple signals to a single slot in Qt

I'm trying to keep track of the textChanged() signal on for handful of QTextEdits. I want to do the same thing regardless of the text edit emitting the signal: uncheck its associated checkbox in a QListWidget if it becomes empty and leave it checked otherwise. The function I have so for is as follows:
void MainWindow::changed()
{
QString tempStr = ui->hNMRedit->toPlainText();
if(tempStr != "")
{
ui->checkList->item(0)->setCheckState(Qt::Checked);
}
else
{
ui->checkList->item(0)->setCheckState(Qt::Unchecked);
}
}
With the current approach, I would have to make a function like this for every QTextEdit; each function containing virtually identical code. If I stored each of the text edits in an array (so I could find their associated index in the QListWidget), would it be possible for me to have a slot like this?
void MainWindow::changed(QWidget *sender) // for whichever text edit emits the
// textChanged() signal
{
QString tempStr = sender->toPlainText();
if(tempStr != "")
{
// I would potentially use some sort of indexOf(sender) function on the array I
// mentioned earlier here... a little new to Qt, sorry
ui->checkList->item(array.indexOf(sender))->setCheckState(Qt::Checked);
}
else
{
// same as above...
ui->checkList->item(array.indexOf(sender))->setCheckState(Qt::Unchecked);
}
}
Is this possible or should I just create a separate slot for every text edit?
Please let me know if any further clarification is needed!
Lastly, I feel like the only meaningful difference between QLineEdits and QTextEdits is the default size. In favor of keeping things consistent, should I just use one of these objects throughout my UI?
Thanks!!!
I think you are missing the point of slots and signals. How are you creating the connections?
Are you trying to check a box when any of the text boxes change? If so use a QSignalMapper to map the textChanged() signals to send a value of true and connect that to the QCheckBox setChecked(bool) slot.
If that is too complicated subclass QCheckBox and create a set of functions checkBox() uncheckBox() so you can toggle states without a variable. Then connect the QTextEdit textChanged() to your subclass checkBox()
If this is not what you are looking for, at least subclass QTextEditto take in a QCheckBox that it can change when the text changes instead of duplicating code for every QTextEdit
All you need is a hash of QAbstractButton*, keyed by QTextEdit*. In the slot, you look up the sender() in the hash, if found you've got the button you need. This is precisely what is done by the QSignalMapper: you can map from a sender QWidget* to your button QWidget*. Use qobject_cast to cast to QAbstractButton*.

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