How to initiate a form based on QUiLoader

[Lykurg]

As I see it, all needed widgets are created on the heap, only the builder is created on the stack. Which is fine.
But are you sure the path to the ui file is correct? I don't think so. Debug what

file.open(QFile::ReadOnly);

file.open(QFile::ReadOnly);

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says. Remember the relative path is relativ to the executable directory.

[peterjb31]

Hi Lykurg, thanks for your advice. qDebug returned true for that line though I looked at the code more closely around there afterwards. The examples all show the use of:

QFile file(":form.ui");

QFile file(":form.ui");

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where as I had:

QFile file("form.ui");

QFile file("form.ui");

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Anyway, I changed my code to match the format of :form.ui and I am now getting the following error:

Designer: An error has occurred while reading the UI file at line 1, column 0: Premature end of document.
QLayout: Cannot add null widget to QVBoxLayout/

I have now tried several different .ui files but all provide the same error. Do you have any suggestions?

Many thanks.

[Lykurg]

Hi,

the ":" only indicates that it uses the resource system of Qt. You don't need that. Also your two line about tmpButton are nonsense. Anyway, I can't see a real problem in your code. Although you are mixing two approaches on how to use ui files when you also declare a ui pointer in the header file. (See the Qt Designer manual for a detailed description on how to use ui files)

But to the problem: what does

qWarning() << file.readAll();

qWarning() << file.readAll();

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say? (after opening it off course) It must be something with the file. It isn't read correctly...

[peterjb31]

Hi, I tried to use the qWarning() function but just had:

""

printed each time on the console.

Could my problem be caused because I am trying to call the UI from a button click within an existing QWindow. I have got the code to load the form in the end by changing the following:

QUiLoader builder;
    QFile file("form.ui");
    file.open(QFile::ReadOnly);
    QWidget *myWidget = builder.load(&file, this);
    QVBoxLayout *layout = new QVBoxLayout;
    layout->addWidget(myWidget);
    setLayout(layout);

QUiLoader builder;
    QFile file("form.ui");
    file.open(QFile::ReadOnly);
    QWidget *myWidget = builder.load(&file, this);
    QVBoxLayout *layout = new QVBoxLayout;
    layout->addWidget(myWidget);
    setLayout(layout);

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to

QUiLoader builder;
    QFile file("../form.ui");
    file.open(QFile::ReadOnly);
    QWidget *myWidget = builder.load(&file);
    myWidget->show();
    file.close();

QUiLoader builder;
    QFile file("../form.ui");
    file.open(QFile::ReadOnly);
    QWidget *myWidget = builder.load(&file);
    myWidget->show();
    file.close();

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Is there anything wrong with the new code or can I settle on it?

[Lykurg]

Hi, I tried to use the qWarning() function but just had:

Yes, that is what I said in post #5: Your file is not loaded. Why: because you are using a relative path.
So: use the resource system or use an absolute path or use a correct relative path. (See also [WIKI]Current working directory[/WIKI])