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Tony
Tony

Reputation: 21

Qt Error: Can't declared multiple mainwindows in main.cpp

In "main.cpp":

#include "mainwindow.h"
#include "mainwindow_1.h"

And I code in main.cpp:

MainWindow *mainWin_1 = new MainWindow;
MainWindow_1 *mainWin_2 = new MainWindow_1;

I'm already declared MainWindow and MainWindow_1 in "mainwindow.h" and "mainwindow_1.h". They are both QMainWindow. But when I debug, I got an error that said "MainWindow_1 was not declared in this scope".

When I changed: 

 #include "mainwindow.h"
 #include "mainwindow_1.h"

into 

 #include "mainwindow_1.h"
 #include "mainwindow.h"

I got the error "MainWindow was not declared in this scope".

Can I only include one mainwindow? How can I get two QMainwindow in main.cpp without error?

mainwindow.h

#ifndef MAINWINDOW_H
#define MAINWINDOW_H

#include <QMainWindow>
#include <QDateTime>
#include <ctime>

class MainWindow : public QMainWindow {
    Q_OBJECT;

    public:
        MainWindow();
        ~MainWindow(); 
};
#endif

mainwindow_1.h

#ifndef MAINWINDOW_H
#define MAINWINDOW_H

#include <QMainWindow>
#include <QDateTime>
#include <ctime>

class MainWindow_1 : public QMainWindow {
    Q_OBJECT;

    public:
        MainWindow_1();
        ~MainWindow_1(); 
};
#endif

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1047

Answers (1)

hyde
hyde

Reputation: 62797

Sounds like you have same include guard macro in both .h files.

So, change both the #ifndef and #define near beginning of one of the .h files to be different from the include guards of the other .h file. For example change mainwindow_1.h to have this:

#ifndef MAINWINDOW_1_H
#define MAINWINDOW_1_H

When you have same include guard macro, then the contents of the file included later will be skipped, and the class in it will be left undefined in that .cpp file.

One thing to keep in mind is, C++ include files are not like "import" or such of many other languages. #include just inserts contents of the other file into the compilation, same as if you copy-pasted it. Among other things, this means that later include file "sees" all macros defined in earlier include files, so include guards must have unique names.

Upvotes: 1

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