Retaining a spinbox value

[positive_4_life]

Hello, I have a minor problem which confounds me:

I have a UI which contains a spinbox and a button. The user can choose whatever value can be used in the spinbox's range, but I want it to hold the currently selected value of the spinbox when the button is clicked and transfer it to another function. I have this so far:

mainwidget->connect( strt_rcrding_btn, SIGNAL(clicked()), loc_spinbox, SLOT(value() ) );               //hold value of spinbox
 
mainwidget->connect (loc_spinbox,SIGNAL(valueChanged(int) ), &response, SLOT( write_dat_attrib(int) )  );    //and puts it to file

mainwidget->connect( strt_rcrding_btn, SIGNAL(clicked()), loc_spinbox, SLOT(value() ) );               //hold value of spinbox
    
mainwidget->connect (loc_spinbox,SIGNAL(valueChanged(int) ), &response, SLOT( write_dat_attrib(int) )  );    //and puts it to file

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But QSpinBox::value() is not a valid slot so is there another slot I could use which emits the valueChanged signal? Or is there another way I could code this?

Thanks