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    I am creating a text editor. I create 2 QPushButton one called Abrir and a Guardar, as you do for that clicking these button do what it say the slot?

    void on_menuGuardar_triggered();
    void on_menuAbrir_triggered();

    and another question. in most of the programs in the Help menu, is an option called About. the windows is a QDialog or QMessageBox?
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    Default Re: connect a qpushbutton a slot

    Quote Originally Posted by Lycus HackerEmo View Post
    I am creating a text editor. I create 2 QPushButton one called Abrir and a Guardar, as you do for that clicking these button do what it say the slot?
    Could you rephrase your question?

    and another question. in most of the programs in the Help menu, is an option called About. the windows is a QDialog or QMessageBox?
    QMessageBox is also a QDialog, so...
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    Default Re: connect a qpushbutton a slot

    Slot for pushbutton:

    Qt Code:
    1. connect(menuGuardar, SIGNAL(clicked()),this, SLOT(on_menuGuardar_triggered()));
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    and about box is pretty much the same

    Qt Code:
    1. void myProg::on_about_clicked()
    2. {
    3. QMessageBox msgBox;
    4. msgBox.setWindowTitle("My About");
    5. msgBox.setText("About my program");
    6. msgBox.exec();
    7. }
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    Default Re: connect a qpushbutton a slot

    Could you rephrase your question?
    in the file *.ui add 2 buttons i wanted to do was connect it to the slot.
    What i did was:

    Qt Code:
    1. connect(ui->botonAbrir, SIGNAL(clicked()),this, SLOT(on_menuAbrir_triggered()));
    2. connect(ui->botonGuardar, SIGNAL(clicked()),this, SLOT(on_menuGuardar_triggered()));
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    and on the About menu. was how to create this window? and how you create this link on the website?


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    Default Re: connect a qpushbutton a slot

    Quote Originally Posted by Lycus HackerEmo View Post
    and on the About menu. was how to create this window? and how you create this link on the website?
    QVBoxLayout, QTabWidget, QLabel, QPushbutton. A QLabel can display links. Just set html as a text.

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    Default Re: connect a qpushbutton a slot

    Quote Originally Posted by Lycus HackerEmo View Post
    in the file *.ui add 2 buttons i wanted to do was connect it to the slot.
    What i did was:

    Qt Code:
    1. connect(ui->botonAbrir, SIGNAL(clicked()),this, SLOT(on_menuAbrir_triggered()));
    2. connect(ui->botonGuardar, SIGNAL(clicked()),this, SLOT(on_menuGuardar_triggered()));
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    You shouldn't be doing it like this. The on_objectname_signalname() naming convention says the slot will be executed upon a "signalname" signal from "objectname" object. So either change the name to something meaningful and leave the connect statements as they are or get rid of the connect statements and change slot names so that they have "clicked" instead of "triggered" in their names.

    and on the About menu. was how to create this window? and how you create this link on the website?
    Take a look at QMessageBox::about(). You can pass rich text (including links) there.
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    Default Re: connect a qpushbutton a slot

    Quote Originally Posted by wysota View Post
    You shouldn't be doing it like this. The on_objectname_signalname() naming convention says the slot will be executed upon a "signalname" signal from "objectname" object. So either change the name to something meaningful and leave the connect statements as they are or get rid of the connect statements and change slot names so that they have "clicked" instead of "triggered" in their names.
    I thought the same way but then I saw that there is also an action named menuAbrir for which the slot is for. So the button is only additional. So the decission is to make all by hand or let Qt do at least one connection...

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    Default Re: connect a qpushbutton a slot

    You shouldn't be doing it like this. The on_objectname_signalname() naming convention says the slot will be executed upon a "signalname" signal from "objectname" object. So either change the name to something meaningful and leave the connect statements as they are or get rid of the connect statements and change slot names so that they have "clicked" instead of "triggered" in their names.
    the signalname "triggered" only used in the menuBar and not be used in QPushButton?
    have an example of what i should do?

    I delete the "triggered" and change it to the "clicked", but does not work the menuAbrir and the menuGuardar.

    Qt Code:
    1. connect(ui->botonAbrir, SIGNAL(clicked()),this, SLOT(on_menuAbrir_clicked()));
    2. connect(ui->botonGuardar, SIGNAL(clicked()),this, SLOT(on_menuGuardar_clicked()));
    3. connect(ui->menuAbrir, SIGNAL(clicked()),this, SLOT(on_menuAbrir_clicked()));
    4. connect(ui->menuGuardar, SIGNAL(clicked()),this, SLOT(on_menuGuardar_clicked()));
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    Default Re: connect a qpushbutton a slot

    menuArir and menuGuardar don't have a "clicked()" signal. Use triggered() for these.

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    Default Re: connect a qpushbutton a slot

    I would really suggest to change the slot names to something meaningful and issue connect statements for both the buttons and the actions. Or better yet make your buttons tool buttons and add the actions you created to them. Then you won't have to double the connect statements.

    Qt Code:
    1. QAction *act = new QAction(...);
    2. QToolButton *button = new QToolButton(...);
    3. button->addAction(act);
    4. connect(act, SIGNAL(triggered()), this, SLOT(doSomethingUseful()));
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    Default Re: connect a qpushbutton a slot

    and it's ok like this?

    and mark error:

    Qt Code:
    1. ‘class QAction’ has no member named ‘addAction’
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    Default Re: connect a qpushbutton a slot

    Quote Originally Posted by Lycus HackerEmo View Post
    Qt Code:
    1. ‘class QAction’ has no member named ‘addAction’
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    Which is correct. Note that wysota used addAction method of QToolButton.

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    Default Re: connect a qpushbutton a slot

    forgiveness for late reply, was busy with affairs of the school
    and happy to have 2 weeks of easter holiday. xD

    okay this program?

    there is an error here? not working wants.
    Qt Code:
    1. void TextEditor::acerca_de()
    2. {
    3. QMessageBox::about(this, tr("Acerca de: TextEditor"), tr("Este Programa fue creado por:\n\n"
    4. "<h3>Lycus HackerEmo</h3>\n\n"
    5. "<a href="http://tuxmaya.wordpress.com">TuxMaya</a> "));
    6. }
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    The code you pasted is syntactically incorrect. Even the forum highlighting shows that...
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