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David Doria
David Doria

Reputation: 10273

Display and get the result of a QMessageBox from outside of a QObject

I am trying to display and get the result a message box from outside of a QObject class. I seem to be able to generate the dialog like this:

#include <iostream>

#include <QApplication>
#include <QtConcurrentRun>
#include <QMessageBox>

class DialogHandler : public QObject
{
Q_OBJECT

signals:
  void MySignal();

public:
  DialogHandler()
  {
    connect( this, SIGNAL( MySignal() ), this, SLOT(MySlot()) );
  }

  void EmitSignal()
  {
    emit MySignal();
  }

public slots:
  void MySlot()
  {
    QMessageBox* dialog = new QMessageBox;
    dialog->setText("Test Text");
    dialog->exec();
    int result = dialog->result();
    if(result)
    {
      std::cout << "ok" << std::endl;
    }
    else
    {
      std::cout << "invalid" << std::endl;
    }
  }
};

#include "main.moc" // For CMake's automoc

void MyFunction(DialogHandler* dialogHandler)
{
  dialogHandler->EmitSignal();
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  QApplication app(argc, argv);

  DialogHandler* dialogHandler = new DialogHandler;

  MyFunction(dialogHandler);

  return app.exec();
}

To get the result back in MyFunction, it seems to work to do simply pass an object to fill with the result like this:

#include <iostream>

#include <QApplication>
#include <QtConcurrentRun>
#include <QMessageBox>

class DialogHandler : public QObject
{
Q_OBJECT

signals:
  void MySignal(int* returnValue);

public:
  DialogHandler()
  {
    connect( this, SIGNAL( MySignal(int*) ), this, SLOT(MySlot(int*)), Qt::BlockingQueuedConnection );
  }

  void EmitSignal(int* returnValue)
  {
    emit MySignal(returnValue);
  }

public slots:
  void MySlot(int* returnValue)
  {
    std::cout << "input: " << *returnValue << std::endl;
    QMessageBox* dialog = new QMessageBox;
    dialog->addButton(QMessageBox::Yes);
    dialog->addButton(QMessageBox::No);
    dialog->setText("Test Text");
    dialog->exec();
    int result = dialog->result();
    if(result == QMessageBox::Yes)
    {
      *returnValue = 1;
    }
    else
    {
      *returnValue = 0;
    }
  }
};

#include "main.moc" // For CMake's automoc

void MyFunction(DialogHandler* dialogHandler)
{
  int returnValue = -1;
  dialogHandler->EmitSignal(&returnValue);

  std::cout << "returnValue: " << returnValue << std::endl;
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  QApplication app(argc, argv);

  DialogHandler* dialogHandler = new DialogHandler;

  QtConcurrent::run(MyFunction, dialogHandler);

  std::cout << "End" << std::endl;
  return app.exec();
}

Does that seem reasonable? Is there a better way to do it?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2323

Answers (1)

Caleb Huitt - cjhuitt
Caleb Huitt - cjhuitt

Reputation: 14941

This isn't possible quite like you have it, but with a bit of work it could be done. One option, of course, would be to convert your class to a QObject, at which point you could send signals. It doesn't help for the delay during exec, however. If that is necessary, you could have a messaging class that lives in the main UI thread, but can be called from other threads. The function called from other threads would need to lock, make a semaphore, and send an event to itself with the semaphore and message to be displayed. Then, in customEvent (which would be in the UI thread), you would create the message box, exec it, and trigger the semaphore after the message box is cleared.

Of course, things get a bit more complicated if you need to send information back the other way as well. Then you'll need a complete subsystem for your program, instead of just one basic class like I describe here.

Upvotes: 1

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