QPair<QDate, int>

I know that I cannot Use this, so I found out I have to use either pointers, or Const.
I think My pointers are not working, so I want to use const, but I have no idea how. I know this has little to do with Qt, but I really have no time, so, please, if anyne can help, could U tell me, how to and when to initialize those const QDate &date, and how to use the properly.

please provide some code... I don'tt like talking about specific problems in a very theoretical way.

whats wrong with your pointers? why shouldn't they be not working?

Thing is - it's not vorking, but probably because I'm not using QPair correctly, here is a bit of code:
datamanager.cpp

Code:

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void DataManager::addTaskItem(QDate *date, TaskItem *taskItem)
{
    //taskItemList.append(taskItem);
    list->append(qMakePair(date, taskItem));
    bool complete = false;
    for(int i=0; i<hoursList->size(); i++)
    {
        if (hoursList->value(i).first==date)
        {
            hours = hoursList->value(i).second;
            hours = hours + taskItem->getHourStr().toInt();
            hoursList->replace(i, qMakePair(date, hours));
            complete = true;
        }
        if (complete == true)
            break;
    }
 
    if (complete == false)
    {
        hours = taskItem->getHourStr().toInt();
        hoursList->append(qMakePair(date, hours));
    }
}
 
void DataManager::clearTaskItem(QDate *date)
{
    for(int i=0; i<list->size(); i++)
        if (list->value(i).first==date)
            list->removeAt(i);
    for(int i=0; i<hoursList->size(); i++)
        if (hoursList->value(i).first==date)
            hoursList->removeAt(i);
}

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customCalendarWidget.cpp

Code:

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QString CustomCalendarWidget::workHours(QDate date) const
{
    QDate *dateForCalendar = new QDate(date);
    QString string("0");
    for(int i=0; i<hoursList->size(); i++)
    {
        if (hoursList->value(i).first==dateForCalendar)
            string.setNum(hoursList->value(i).second);
    }
    return string;
}

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thing is - i can't get the
hoursList->value(i).first==dateForCalendar
to work.
I looked through the debugger, and when dateForCalendar has the same value as QPair->first value, I still don't go through that first 'if' in the customCalendarWidget.cpp. I think there is something wrong with that 'if statement...

That first is a QDate* (if i assume correctly - from the first post) so then you compare QDate* with a QDate variable date (the workHours(QDate date) takes a QDate value not a pointer)

LE: ignore the above comment

Are you sure that you need the pointers to be equal? Shouldn't you compare the dereferenced pointers?

Something has changed...
Now I don't get the match because when i look through the debugger the dataForCalendar is always 5. I have no idea why (the QDate date parameter in the customCalendarWidget is worth from 2455677 and up..). What am I doing wrong???

Ok, so now the question is:
how can I take the parameter that is simple QDate and compare it with QDate*???

You are comparing the value of the pointer not the value of the date object that it points to:

Code:

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QDate *a = new QDate(2011, 1, 1);
QDate *b = new QDate(2011, 1, 1);
qDebug() << "Compare the pointers" << (a == b); // false, the two pointers are different i.e. they do not point at the same object
qDebug() << "Compare the objects" << (*a == *b);  // true, the objects pointed at have the same value

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Why use heap allocated QDates in the first place? You can quite happily store QDate in a QPair:

Code:

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QList<QPair<QDate, int> > pairs;
    pairs << qMakePair(QDate::currentDate(), 1);
    pairs << qMakePair(QDate::currentDate(), 1);
    qDebug() << pairs.count() << pairs.at(0).first << pairs.at(1).first 
        << (pairs.at(0).first  == pairs.at(1).first );
// outputs:
// 2 QDate("Thu May 19 2011") QDate("Thu May 19 2011") true

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Thanks! I threw out

Code:

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QDate *dateForCalendar = new QDate(date);

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And in the if statement I just did

Code:

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if (*(hoursList->at(i).first)==date)

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