How to pass parameters to a .ui file in Qt?

[TheIndependentAquarius]

For: http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7-snapshot/qcombobox.html#setItemText
I wrote:


<widget class="QComboBox" name = "button55">
<property name="ItemText">
<number>0</number>
<string>fontCombosBox</string>
</property>
</widget>


This results in:

ui_showmap.h:73:109: error: no matching function for call to ‘QComboBox::setItemText(QString)’
../../../../qtsdk-2010.05/qt/include/QtGui/qcombobox.h:206:10: note: candidate is: void QComboBox::setItemText(int, const QString&)


I checked: http://www.kde.gr.jp/~ichi/qt/designer-manual-15.html#1-19

Tried changing string to cstring. That didn't help either.

What's the way out?

P.S. Complier is g++ on openSUSE 11.3 with Qt 4.7

[spirit]

QComboBox::setItemTex takes 2 parameters, you're passing only one. The compilers complains on such invocation.

[TheIndependentAquarius]

QComboBox::setItemTex takes 2 parameters, you're passing only one. The compilers complains on such invocation.
I *did* pass two.
First number, second string.

Now, I saw this: http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7-snapshot/demos-embeddeddialogs-embeddeddialog-ui.html

so the correct way is:



<widget class="QComboBox" name="zoomLevel" >
<item>
<property name="text" >
<string>5</string>
</property>
</item>
</widget>


Question: Besides, qt functions also have parameter types as "QVariant". If I have to use those parameters what's the way out? Is there any proper documentation on .ui files?

[spirit]

Qt Designer has convenient QComboBox items editor. Why don't you use it instead of manually editing xml (ui) file?

[TheIndependentAquarius]

I don't have it installed currently, that's why asked.

[spirit]

I'm sure you do. :) Check your QTDIR/bin folder. Or if you are using QtCreator there is the "Designer" tab in main window.

[TheIndependentAquarius]

That's quite helpful. I opened the QtCreator and saw the designer tab. Indeed the .ui gets generated automatically. That's the reason perhaps that there is no proper documentation for it.

[spirit]

There is documentation but it's not a part of Qt's docs. It's part of the QtCreator's docs. See Developing Widget Based Applications (http://doc.qt.nokia.com/qtcreator-2.5/creator-using-qt-designer.html).