slots questions that's probably really silly

[seerofsorrow]

I currently have another silly question, I have a layout in gui folder with two buttons that are exclusive and have a bool checked slot on them Also for the whole window I have a make template button with a clicked slot on it as well and here from my class.cpp file is the code:

void Classy::on_Boy_clicked(bool checked)
{
    QString Gender = "Boy";
}
 
void Classy::on_Girl_clicked(bool checked)
{
    QString Gender = "Girl";
}
 
void Classy::on_MakeButton_clicked()
{
 
 
       QString Gender;
 
 
        QFile writeFile( filename );
        if (!writeFile.open(QIODevice::Append | QIODevice::Text))
        {
            qDebug() << "Didn't open the file!";
        }
        else
        {
            QTextStream out (&writeFile);
            out << "Case Number: "+caseNumberText << endl;
            out << "Patient Name: "+ patientNameText << endl;
            out << "Gender: " + Gender<< endl;
 
        }
 
}

void Classy::on_Boy_clicked(bool checked)
{
    QString Gender = "Boy";
}

void Classy::on_Girl_clicked(bool checked)
{
    QString Gender = "Girl";
}

void Classy::on_MakeButton_clicked()
{

     
       QString Gender;


        QFile writeFile( filename );
        if (!writeFile.open(QIODevice::Append | QIODevice::Text))
        {
            qDebug() << "Didn't open the file!";
        }
        else
        {
            QTextStream out (&writeFile);
            out << "Case Number: "+caseNumberText << endl;
            out << "Patient Name: "+ patientNameText << endl;
            out << "Gender: " + Gender<< endl;

        }

}

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I'm trying to figure out how to make the Gender variable viewable to multiple slots at the same time. All of the code I realize won't run I'm just using it as example, as I have written the other code for it to create a directory and create the file correctly. I found this article source: https://doc.qt.io/archives/qq/qq10-signalmapper.html but slightly confused as not all of the buttons in this instance are in the same layout.

My humble thanks to any answers I get.

[d_stranz]

Umm, do you know C++? Have you heard of member variables in C++ classes? Like maybe adding a "QString gender;" member variable and using that instead of local stack variables in each slot?