store variables from a qdialog to use in qmainwindow

Question

I've created a dialog.h, dialog.cpp and a dialog.ui, and I have qlineedit in the dialog, as well as ok and cancel button, and i want to store those linedit information to use in a mainwindow in a different file. here's my dialog code.

#include <QtGui/QApplication>
#include "dialog.h"
#include "ui_dialog.h"

void Dialog::startplanevolume()
{
    if (xMax==0)
    {
        ui->label_17->setText("Error: Can't start, invalid \nmeasures");
    }
    else
    {
        this->accept();        
    }
}

// Define the length of the volume
void Dialog::bmprange()
{
// Getting some proprieties for the lenght of the volume
QString XMAX=ui->lineEdit->text();
xMax=XMAX.toDouble();

if (xMax==0)
{
    ui->label_17->setText("Error: invalid measures");
}
else
{
    ui->label_17->setText("Valid measures");
}
}

Dialog::Dialog(QWidget *parent) :
    QDialog(parent),
    ui(new Ui::Dialog)
{
    ui->setupUi(this);

  // Control volume measures
    // Making the lineedit objects only accept numbers
    ui->lineEdit->setValidator(new QIntValidator(this));
    connect(ui->lineEdit, SIGNAL(textChanged(QString)), this, SLOT(bmprange()));


  // Start planevolume
    connect(ui->pushButton, SIGNAL(clicked()), this, SLOT(startplanevolume()));
    connect(ui->pushButton_2, SIGNAL(clicked()), this, SLOT(hide()));

}

Dialog::~Dialog()
{
    delete ui;
}

void Dialog::changeEvent(QEvent *e)
{
    QDialog::changeEvent(e);
    switch (e->type()) {
    case QEvent::LanguageChange:
        ui->retranslateUi(this);
        break;
    default:
        break;
    }
}

how can i get to use the value of xMax in mainwindow.cpp??

here's my dialog.h

#ifndef DIALOG_H
#define DIALOG_H

#include <QDialog>

namespace Ui {
    class Dialog;
}

class Dialog : public QDialog {
    Q_OBJECT
public:
    Dialog(QWidget *parent = 0);
    ~Dialog();

protected:
    void changeEvent(QEvent *e);

private:
    Ui::Dialog *ui;
    double xMax, yMax, zMax, xMMax, yMMax, zMMax, list[6];

public slots:
    void bmprange();
    void startplanevolume();

};

#endif // DIALOG_H

here's my main.cpp

#include <QtGui/QApplication>

#include "planevolume.h"
#include "dialog.h"

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication app(argc, argv);

    Dialog *dialog= new Dialog;

    if (dialog->exec())
    {
        planevolume mainwindow;
        mainwindow.show();
        return app.exec();
    }

return 0;
}

so then I want to use xMax to calculate something in planevolume.cpp, the mainwindow

Answer 1

I think you can create a getter function in the dialog. After the dialog is closed, you can access the variable using the created getter function.

The returned variable you can give as a parameter to the mainwindow (planvolume.cpp).

I hope that helps.

Edit:

In the dialog.h / dialog.cpp you add an function:

double Dialog::getXMax()
{
     return xMax;
}

After that you can acces the variable in the main.cpp:

Dialog *dialog= new Dialog;

if (dialog->exec())
{
    double xMax = dialog->getXMax();
    planevolume mainwindow;
    mainwindow.show();
    return app.exec();
}

Answer 2

Although you could declare xMax as public member of Dialog and just use it, the more elegant and OO style approach is to write a "getter" function declared in the public area of your Dialog class:

(...)
public:
    Dialog(QWidget *parent = 0);
    ~Dialog();
    double getxMax() { return xMax; }
(...)

You would also need a setter function in your planevolume class, also declared in the public area, as:

void setxMax(double xMax);

The body of this function would take care of doing whatever is necessary with the value of xMax.

Finally, in your main() function, you would do the following:

if (dialog->exec())
{
    planevolume mainwindow;
    mainwindow.setxMax(dialog->getxMax());   // This passes xMax to main window
    mainwindow.show();
    return app.exec();
}

Alternatively, you could just overload the show() function of planevolume as

planevolume::show(double xMax)
{
  // Do whatever you want with XMax

  show();   // And call original show function
}

in which case you do not need the setter function and just call

mainwindow.show(dialog->getxMax());