virtual keyboard in QT Application

[StrikeByte]

I made the project on a windows machine and a visual studio compiler. It looks like the compiler you are using won't allow temp variables in function calls
I don't have a mac to try it on.
Mabe you can find more when googling the error description (QString' cannot bind to a temporary of type 'QString) or start a thread in the newbe section of the forum.

[anda_skoa]

Instead of taking the address of a temporary QVariant, make it a local variable and take its address.

In the second error, you are required to pass a reference to a QString. You are trying to pass the return value of a function, which is also a temporary.
Again, make a local variable, initialiize it with the result of the function and then pass the variable to the validate method.

Cheers,
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[srm]

Thanks for the pointers. I was able to fix the error messages as per your suggestion.
For example

emit dataSet(&QVariant(ui->edValue->text()));

became

QVariant qv = QVariant(ui->edValue->text());
emit dataSet(&qv);

But now I'm stuck on how to actually use it. I have absolutely no clue on how to incorporate that into my own app. I did a make install but neither do I know how to activate it, nor how to ensure cross platform functionality.

So I moved over to give http://qt-apps.org/content/show.php/...content=107388 a try, which was mentioned in earlier in this thread.

Would be great if you could explain/give a sample app on how to actually use such an extra inputcontext, for the total noobs

[StrikeByte]

There is a howto on the first page of this thread

[kiran prabhu]

hi,thanks for the virtual keyboard

[clutch12]

This looks very useful. I've been trying out the latest VIInputContext class. Any chance you can add some clarification on usage with a mainwindow widget?
I put this in my mainwindow.h
VIInputContext inputdevice;
and in the constructor I do this
ui->lineEdit->setProperty("keyboard",true);


But, I must be missing something as when I click in the lineEdit box nothing happens.