I'm new in Qt and have a question.
I have QLabel
and QLineEdit
objects, and when QLabel
text is clicked on, I want to set this text in QLineEdit
.
Also I have read that QLabel
has not clicked signal.
Can you explain how can I do this and write code for me ?!
Either style another type of QWidget such as a specific QPushButton to look like a QLabel and use its clicked() signal or inherit QLabel yourself and emit your own clicked() signal.
See this example:
https://wiki.qt.io/Clickable_QLabel
If you choose the latter option you can pass the text in the signal. Then connect the necessary signals/slots up between the QLabel and the QLineEdit like so:
QObject::connect(&label, SIGNAL(clicked(const QString& text)),
&lineEdit, SLOT(setText(const QString& text)));
A simple way to accomplish that, without a need for any subclassing, is a signal source that monitors the events on some object and emits relevant signals:
// main.cpp - this is a single-file example
#include <QtWidgets>
class MouseButtonSignaler : public QObject {
Q_OBJECT
bool eventFilter(QObject * obj, QEvent * ev) Q_DECL_OVERRIDE {
if ((ev->type() == QEvent::MouseButtonPress
|| ev->type() == QEvent::MouseButtonRelease
|| ev->type() == QEvent::MouseButtonDblClick)
&& obj->isWidgetType())
emit mouseButtonEvent(static_cast<QWidget*>(obj),
static_cast<QMouseEvent*>(ev));
return false;
}
public:
Q_SIGNAL void mouseButtonEvent(QWidget *, QMouseEvent *);
MouseButtonSignaler(QObject * parent = 0) : QObject(parent) {}
void installOn(QWidget * widget) {
widget->installEventFilter(this);
}
};
The emit
keyword is an empty macro, Qt defines it as follows:
#define emit
It is for use by humans as a documentation aid prefix only, the compiler and moc
ignore it. As a documentation aid, it means: the following method call is a signal emission. The signals are simply methods whose implementation is generated for you by moc
- that's why we have to #include "main.moc"
below to include all the implementations that moc
has generated for the object class(es) in this file. There's otherwise nothing special or magical to a signal. In this example, you could look in the build folder for a file called main.moc
and see the implementation (definition) of void MouseButtonSignaler::mouseButtonEvent( .. )
.
You can then install such a signaler on any number of widgets, such as a QLabel
:
int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
QApplication app(argc, argv);
MouseButtonSignaler signaler;
QWidget w;
QVBoxLayout layout(&w);
QLabel label("text");
QLineEdit edit;
layout.addWidget(&label);
layout.addWidget(&edit);
signaler.installOn(&label);
QObject::connect(&signaler, &MouseButtonSignaler::mouseButtonEvent,
[&label, &edit](QWidget*, QMouseEvent * event) {
if (event->type() == QEvent::MouseButtonPress)
edit.setText(label.text());
});
w.show();
return app.exec();
}
#include "main.moc"
You need to create one Custom Label class, which will inherit QLabel
. Then you can use MouseButtonRelease
event to check clicking of Label and emit
your custom signal and catch in one SLOT
.
Your .h
file will be as below:
class YourLabelClass : public QLabel{
signals:
void myLabelClicked(); // Signal to emit
public slots:
void slotLabelClicked(); // Slot which will consume signal
protected:
bool event(QEvent *myEvent); // This method will give all kind of events on Label Widget
};
In your .cpp
file, your constructor will connect signal & slot as below :
YourLabelClass :: YourLabelClass(QWidget* parent) : QLabel(parent) {
connect(this, SIGNAL(myLabelClicked()), this, SLOT(slotLabelClicked()));
}
Remaining event
method and SLOT
method will be implemented as below:
bool YourLabelClass :: event(QEvent *myEvent)
{
switch(myEvent->type())
{
case(QEvent :: MouseButtonRelease): // Identify Mouse press Event
{
qDebug() << "Got Mouse Event";
emit myLabelClicked();
break;
}
}
return QWidget::event(myEvent);
}
void YourLabelClass :: slotLabelClicked() // Implementation of Slot which will consume signal
{
qDebug() << "Clicked Label";
}
For Changing a Text on QLineEdit
, you need to create a Custom Class and share object pointer with custom QLabel
Class. Please check test code at this link