IDE-like interface

[ntzrmtthihu777]

Greetings, I'm a bit of a hobbyist programmer in a few languages, and am now finally stepping up to real application developement.
Was giving Qt a shot and I must say its very good for rapid GUI building on linux.

What I'm working on is pretty analogous to an IDE, in that you chose a 'project file' which is read in and sets up the project paths and such.

I'm having issue with a portion of it, in that I can't figure out how to pass information from the project file into a subwindow of the application;
Current code:

void MainWindow::file_open_project()
{
    QString projectFile = QFileDialog::getOpenFileName(
                this, tr("Open Project"),
                QStandardPaths::writableLocation(QStandardPaths::DocumentsLocation),
                tr("Project files (*.proj)"));
    if(!projectFile.isEmpty())
    {
        load_project(projectFile);
    }
}
 
void MainWindow::load_project(QString projectFile)
{
    QFileInfo project(projectFile);
    QString projectPath = project.absolutePath();
    QSettings *projectSettings = new QSettings(projectPath+"/Project", QSettings::IniFormat, this);
    this->archiveFile->append(projectSettings->value("Archive").toString());
}
 
void MainWindow::archiveAction()
{
    ArchiveEditor *archiveEditor = new ArchiveEditor(this, &archiveFile);
    archiveEditor->setAttribute(Qt::WA_DeleteOnClose);
    archiveEditor->setAttribute(Qt::WA_ShowModal);
    archiveEditor->show();
}

void MainWindow::file_open_project()
{
    QString projectFile = QFileDialog::getOpenFileName(
                this, tr("Open Project"),
                QStandardPaths::writableLocation(QStandardPaths::DocumentsLocation),
                tr("Project files (*.proj)"));
    if(!projectFile.isEmpty())
    {
        load_project(projectFile);
    }
}

void MainWindow::load_project(QString projectFile)
{
    QFileInfo project(projectFile);
    QString projectPath = project.absolutePath();
    QSettings *projectSettings = new QSettings(projectPath+"/Project", QSettings::IniFormat, this);
    this->archiveFile->append(projectSettings->value("Archive").toString());
}

void MainWindow::archiveAction()
{
    ArchiveEditor *archiveEditor = new ArchiveEditor(this, &archiveFile);
    archiveEditor->setAttribute(Qt::WA_DeleteOnClose);
    archiveEditor->setAttribute(Qt::WA_ShowModal);
    archiveEditor->show();
}

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ArchiveEditor::ArchiveEditor(QWidget *parent, QString *file)
    :QWidget(parent, Qt::Window)
{
    setWindowTitle(tr("Archive Editor"));
 
    loadScriptArchive(file);
}
 
void ArchiveEditor::loadArchive(const QString &file)
{
    QFile archiveFile = QFile(file);
    if (!archiveFile.open(QFile::ReadOnly))
    {
        QMessageBox::critical(this,
                    tr("File read error"), tr("Cannot open file: ") + file);
        return;
    }
}

ArchiveEditor::ArchiveEditor(QWidget *parent, QString *file)
    :QWidget(parent, Qt::Window)
{
    setWindowTitle(tr("Archive Editor"));

    loadScriptArchive(file);
}

void ArchiveEditor::loadArchive(const QString &file)
{
    QFile archiveFile = QFile(file);
    if (!archiveFile.open(QFile::ReadOnly))
    {
        QMessageBox::critical(this,
                    tr("File read error"), tr("Cannot open file: ") + file);
        return;
    }
}

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ArchiveEditor obviously doesn't do much atm, I'm just trying to figure out how to pass something from the Project.ini file into a subwindow to tell it which archive to load.

[anda_skoa]

Aside from this not compliing due to trying to copy QFile, what is your actual question?

This looks more or less OK, though I wouldn't pass the QString as a pointer (it is a value class and can easily be copied) and making a dialog modal is a lot easier by just calling QDialog::exec(), i.e. not need to set the modality flag.

Cheers,
_

[ntzrmtthihu777]

Heh, I feel kinda dumb now; problem was I was parsing the settings file wrong; it had one of those ini [SubSections] and was not taking that into account XD