Why does this not work?

[wysota]

Well yeah, to those who know what they're doing.. ;/

Or maybe to those that can read English

I don't get the error the first time I used up top. Would thedownloadFinished(QNetworkReply*) slot not still be valid, or can you only use them once?

I completly don't understand wha tou mean.

I'm writing this app to learn not only QT, but C++ as well.

If you want to learn QT you have to go to Appple forums. Here you can only learn Qt.

It'll take me a while to get the hang of the OO world.

OO has nothing to do with asynchronous execution.

QT's documentation is not easy to follow if you don't know the basics of C++, but I'm still working on the app anyway.

You should really learn C++ first before taking on Qt. You'll save yourself lots of time.

By the way, if all you wanted was to save the download to a file, you might have done it in much shorter code.

QHttp *http = new QHttp(this);
http->setHost(...);
QFile *file = new QFile("...");
file->open(QFile::WriteOnly);
http->get("...", file);

QHttp *http = new QHttp(this);
http->setHost(...);
QFile *file = new QFile("...");
file->open(QFile::WriteOnly);
http->get("...", file);

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And that's it.

Alternatively with QNetworkAccessManager:

QNetworkReply *reply = manager->get(...);
connect(manager, SIGNAL(finished(QNetworkReply*)), this, SLOT(saveToFile(QNetworkReply*)));
//...
void ThisClass::saveToFile(QNetworkReply *reply) {
  QFile f(...);
  f.open(...);
  f.write(reply->readAll());
}

QNetworkReply *reply = manager->get(...);
connect(manager, SIGNAL(finished(QNetworkReply*)), this, SLOT(saveToFile(QNetworkReply*)));
//...
void ThisClass::saveToFile(QNetworkReply *reply) {
  QFile f(...);
  f.open(...);
  f.write(reply->readAll());
}

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[lnxusr]

I completly don't understand wha tou mean.

In my original post. The first statement of the gethtfile class is

connect(&manager, SIGNAL(finished(QNetworkReply*)),
            SLOT(downloadFinished(QNetworkReply*)));

connect(&manager, SIGNAL(finished(QNetworkReply*)),
            SLOT(downloadFinished(QNetworkReply*)));

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I don't get an the warning message from this, but did when I connect again in the event loop in doDownload.

You should really learn C++ first before taking on Qt. You'll save yourself lots of time.

I know, but until I get the books I ordered, I'll still play around with my app. I have nothing else to work on right now, and it fills my free time. It may be frustrating, but I am slowly figuring things out. Like I said before, things work, but it's nowhere near usable. It's more of a hodge podge of classes and functions for testing and seeing how things work. I don't know if you can really call it an app or not. I'll most likely start from scratch or rewrite 95% of what I've done, but I am learning a few things.

While searching the forums, I see alot of people saying QHttp is depreciated and to use QNetworkManager. That's why I moved away from it. It sounds like, in the future (5.0?) Qt will do away with QHttp.

By the way, if all you wanted was to save the download to a file, you might have done it in much shorter code.

Thanks for the snippets, I'll add them to my notes..

[wysota]

I have nothing else to work on right now, and it fills my free time.

I suggest reading these:

• http://www.janiry.com/bruce-eckel/TI...ed-Vol-one.zip
• http://www.janiry.com/bruce-eckel/TI...ed-Vol-two.zip

[lnxusr]

I suggest reading these:

• http://www.janiry.com/bruce-eckel/TI...ed-Vol-one.zip
• http://www.janiry.com/bruce-eckel/TI...ed-Vol-two.zip

Great! Thanks wysota,

I read the preface and scanned through the first volume last night. Looks pretty well organized, and I think it may be just what I need. Awesome reviews on Amazon as well. I may see about getting hard copies from Abebooks.

The second volume has some macro's in it. I have OpenOffice set to disable macros, are they required to use the book? Also not sure if word macros will work properly in OOo.