Managing table of labels

[danioto]

Hi!

Let's imagine an example: I want to have 8x8 labels in *.ui file for displaying figures in chess. Now, when I use designer and add labels, they have names like: label, label_2, label_3 and so on. And I want to have a function, which parameters are x and y and in this function I want to change label image of corresponding field. How can I do this? 64 conditions?

void changeLabelOf(int x, int y)
{
    if (x==0 && y==0) ui->label->setPixmap(....);
    if (x==1 && y==0) ui->label_2->setPixmap(....);
    if (x==2 && y==0) ui->label_3->setPixmap(....);
    .
    .
    .
}

void changeLabelOf(int x, int y)
{
    if (x==0 && y==0) ui->label->setPixmap(....);
    if (x==1 && y==0) ui->label_2->setPixmap(....);
    if (x==2 && y==0) ui->label_3->setPixmap(....);
    .
    .
    .
}

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Is there something like macro to do this? Someone know how can I deal with this situation?

[wysota]

Implementing this with Designer like that is a really bad idea. You'd better hand code it and put all the labels in an array/list.

[danioto]

Yes, I know it's a way to do this, but it's really inconvenient and pretty much work to do. Doing this with designer I can quickly create good looking and properly resizing widgets. Is there nothing I can do at the designer level?

[wysota]

Yes, I know it's a way to do this, but it's really inconvenient and pretty much work to do. Doing this with designer I can quickly create good looking and properly resizing widgets. Is there nothing I can do at the designer level?

Using Designer for this particular layout is much more work than hand-coding it. After all it is just 6-7 lines of code.

[danioto]

Ok! I'll do it by hand. Thanks

Pozdro!
Daniel