Create and Use a status dialog

[JAD]

I would like to create and use a dialog to hold user and application status. Similar in nature to the progress bar, but using words. The dialog itself is is a QTextEdit set to read-only. What would be the best way to get information to the dialog, both from other Qt dialogs (e.g. mouse pick information) and analysis code (e.g. information where at in an algorithm).

Thanks!

[d_stranz]

I would implement slots in the dialog to receive information and update the dialog's text. Create signals in the application that are emitted when the status changes. When you create the dialog, connect those signals to the proper slots in the dialog.

When you show the dialog, be sure you do it using show() and not exec(), otherwise the dialog will be modal and you will not be able to interact with anything else in your app.