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    Default friend class - or what else to do?

    I have a QTabWidget with four tabs. The only one enabled to start with is the first, called Welcometab.
    All tabs are QWidgets, with different content.
    The Welcome widget holds som QLabels, with Project-info.
    When you press Ctrl+N, you get a dialog where you can fill in Project data. If data are accepted, the are transferred to a QDomDocument and saved. This works fine.
    My problem is to transfer the Project data to the labels on the front Tab. How do I do that?
    Right now I am trying with friend classes.
    Lani is the clas called from main().
    I include "welcometab.h" and have and empty declaration of the Welcometab class. In the Welcometab class I declare Lani as a friend. Is this not right?
    From Lani.h:
    Qt Code:
    1. #include "welcometab.h"
    2. class WelcomeTab;
    3. class Lani : public QWidget
    4. {
    5. Q_OBJECT
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    from welcometab.h:
    Qt Code:
    1. class WelcomeTab : public QWidget
    2. {
    3. Q_OBJECT
    4. public:
    5. explicit WelcomeTab(QWidget *parent = 0);
    6.  
    7. friend class Lani;
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    I hope you can help. Thank You!

    David

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    Default Re: friend class - or what else to do?

    This is not a Qt question as far as I understand.

    1. use QFile to store the project data(as xml file)
    2. or hold your project data as a member of your tab's parent widget.

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    Default Re: friend class - or what else to do?

    I have used QFile, and store the project data as xml. It works fine.

    Besides that I want to write Project details om the Welcome-tab
    Here is the "welcometab.cpp" file:
    Qt Code:
    1. #include "welcometab.h"
    2.  
    3. WelcomeTab::WelcomeTab(QWidget *parent) :
    4. QWidget(parent)
    5. {
    6.  
    7. view = new QWebView(parent);
    8. view->setMinimumWidth(700);
    9. leftbox = new QVBoxLayout();
    10. leftbox->addWidget(view);
    11.  
    12. infoLayout = new QGridLayout();
    13. labProjName = new QLabel(tr("Project Name:"),this);
    14. infoLayout->addWidget(labProjName);
    15. labProjNameText = new QLabel("",this);
    16. infoLayout->addWidget(labProjNameText);
    17.  
    18. rightbox = new QVBoxLayout();
    19. rightbox->addLayout(infoLayout);
    20. rightbox->addStretch();
    21.  
    22. layout = new QHBoxLayout();
    23. layout->setSpacing(0);
    24. layout->addLayout(leftbox);
    25. layout->addLayout(rightbox);
    26.  
    27. setLayout(layout);
    28. }
    29.  
    30. void WelcomeTab::setTextProjName(QString s){
    31. labProjNameText->setText(s);
    32. }
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    In the Lani.cpp constructor you'll find:
    Qt Code:
    1. tabWidget = new QTabWidget;
    2. tabWidget->setShortcutEnabled(0,true);
    3.  
    4. welcomeTab = new WelcomeTab();
    5. tabWidget->addTab(welcomeTab,tr("&1 Welcome"));
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    In Lani.h I declare welcomeTab:
    Qt Code:
    1. QWidget *welcomeTab;
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    What I can't understand is: Why can't I write
    Qt Code:
    1. welcomeTab.setTextProjName("somestring");
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    It really puzzles me...

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    Default Re: friend class - or what else to do?

    Ok but, where you think you read the project name? From the file you created right?

    If so, then you need to open that file and gather it's contents very much like;

    Qt Code:
    1.  
    2. doc.setContent( yourProjectXMLFile->readAll(),..);
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    then

    Qt Code:
    1. QString proj_name = doc.attribute(tagname);
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    then

    Qt Code:
    1. welcomeTab->setProfName(prof_name);
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    Default Re: friend class - or what else to do?

    Thanks for the suggestions, and your help.

    I've just discovered the mistake that has been haunting me the last three days.
    I declared welcomeTab as a QWidget?!
    It is not a QWidget - it is a WelcomeTab...

    Thanks again, and excuse my sillyness (Arghhhhhhhhhh!)

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