Retrieving the data from the screen in the GUI

[Newbe]

What is the best widget to use to retrieve doubles or integers from the user on the screen?
I am at a loss to figure out how to the get the data in order to manipulate it later in calculations.
For example:
int num1;
int num2;

int sum = num1 + num2

if I was in a console application I would use cin to get the data from the user. How do I do that in the GUI environment through a form?

[Robbie]

QSpinBox and QDoubleSpinBox

[Newbe]

Thanks but what if I want to use a simple box like a textEdit box for the user to type the integer or float into?

[Urthas]

Thanks but what if I want to use a simple box like a textEdit box for the user to type the integer or float into?

Then do that. See QString::toInt() and QString::toFloat().

[Gokulnathvc]

Use TextEdit and retrieve the values in QString and then convert those values to whatever format you are in need..

[Santosh Reddy]

You can use QLineEdit, and set input mask to allow only integers / float. See the documentation of QLineEdit::setInputMask()

[anda_skoa]

Thanks but what if I want to use a simple box like a textEdit box for the user to type the integer or float into?

QSpinBox and QDoubleSpinBox both allow direct user input additional to their "spin" input method.

Cheers,
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