caduel and lyuts many thanks for the reply.

It appears that you are right caduel. The only way to do that is to make qlineedit object visible to the entire scope of the class and then hide it without passing anyting from the slot.

But really if one cant pass arguments through the signal slot mechanism then this is a big mistake. I am suprised that it hasnt been mentioned before.

Are we sure that this is hot it works. From my reading we are right.

Regards.