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    Default Signals and Slots Problem

    I'm currently writing a small utility and I've created custom inner-widgets for my main window that will throw their events / call backs back up to the top-level controller. Unfortunately the events do not seem to be working with the signals and slots mechanism.

    I suspect I've made some obvious mistake, but having spent an entire day looking at this, I'm at a loss to find any answers. A snippet of code is below:

    maintabs.h

    Qt Code:
    1. #ifndef MAINTABS_H
    2. #define MAINTABS_H
    3.  
    4. #include "pagewidget.h"
    5.  
    6. #include "ui_maintabs.h"
    7.  
    8. class MainTabs : public QTabWidget
    9. {
    10. Q_OBJECT
    11.  
    12. public:
    13. MainTabs(QWidget *parent = 0);
    14. void addPage(PageWidget *page, const char *text);
    15.  
    16. public slots:
    17. void removePage(PageWidget *page);
    18.  
    19. private:
    20. Ui::MainTabs ui;
    21. };
    22.  
    23. #endif
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    maintabs.cpp

    Qt Code:
    1. #include <QtGui>
    2.  
    3. #include "maintabs.h"
    4.  
    5. MainTabs::MainTabs(QWidget *parent)
    6. : QTabWidget(parent)
    7. {
    8. ui.setupUi(this);
    9. }
    10.  
    11. void MainTabs::addPage(PageWidget *page, const char *text)
    12. {
    13. connect(page, SIGNAL(pageClosed(PageWidget)), this, SLOT(removePage(PageWidget)));
    14. this->addTab(page, QString());
    15. this->setTabText(this->indexOf(page), QApplication::translate("MainWindow", text, 0, QApplication::UnicodeUTF8));
    16. }
    17.  
    18. void MainTabs::removePage(PageWidget *page)
    19. {
    20. this->removeTab(this->indexOf(page));
    21. }
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    pagewidget.h

    Qt Code:
    1. #ifndef PAGEWIDGET_H
    2. #define PAGEWIDGET_H
    3.  
    4. #include "ui_pagewidget.h"
    5.  
    6. class PageWidget : public QWidget
    7. {
    8. Q_OBJECT
    9.  
    10. public:
    11. PageWidget();
    12. void setPage(QWidget* page);
    13.  
    14. public slots:
    15. void closeClicked();
    16.  
    17. signals:
    18. void pageClosed(PageWidget*);
    19.  
    20. private:
    21. Ui::PageWidget ui;
    22. };
    23.  
    24. #endif
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    pagewidget.cpp
    Qt Code:
    1. #include <QtGui>
    2.  
    3. #include "pagewidget.h"
    4.  
    5. PageWidget::PageWidget()
    6. : QWidget()
    7. {
    8. ui.setupUi(this);
    9. }
    10.  
    11. void PageWidget::setPage(QWidget* page)
    12. {
    13. ui.verticalLayout->removeWidget(ui.mainWidget);
    14. ui.verticalLayout->removeWidget(ui.buttonBox);
    15. ui.verticalLayout->addWidget(page);
    16. ui.verticalLayout->addWidget(ui.buttonBox);
    17.  
    18. connect(ui.buttonBox, SIGNAL(rejected()), this, SLOT(closeClicked()));
    19. }
    20.  
    21. void PageWidget::closeClicked()
    22. {
    23. emit pageClosed(this);
    24. }
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    Now the PageWidget is a custom page object that all tab pages will inherit from. The MainTabs is my QTabWidget object. The idea is for each page to have a 'Close' button and when that is clicked an event is shot up to the main controller of the QMainWindow object. Unfortunately, although the PageWidget::closeClicked() method is invoked, the pageClosed(PageWidget*) method does not seem to be getting hit within the MainTabs class.

    I hope I've provided enough information, and that someone is inclined to provide me with an answer. I'm assuming it's simply a lack of knowledge on my part of the SLOTS and SIGNALS mechanism within Qt.

    And of course, any tips on how to improve my approach would be welcome.

    Regards,

    P.

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    Default Re: Signals and Slots Problem

    (remark: you should probably be getting error messages about not found signals/slots on your console.)

    fix your signal/slots in the connect statement to contain the "*".
    Qt Code:
    1. connect(page, SIGNAL(pageClosed(PageWidget*)), SLOT(removePage(PageWidget*)));
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    Default Signals and Slots Problem (Solved)

    Well that was simple. There were no errors interestingly enough, but your solution worked perfectly. Appreciated.

    P.

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    Default Re: Signals and Slots Problem (Solved)

    Quote Originally Posted by GenericProdigy View Post
    There were no errors interestingly enough
    Signal-slot connections are established at run time, not at compile time. Signal and slot signatures are just strings for compliler, thus no errors. However, as caduel already pointed out, QObject::connect() will output a detailed warning when a connection fails.
    J-P Nurmi

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    Default Re: Signals and Slots Problem

    Stepping through the code I saw nothing. Perhaps I missed something. It looked as though the connect worked, but nothing recieved it, but I'm using a new IDE - perhaps it was hidden somewhere.

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