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Aquarius_Girl
Aquarius_Girl

Reputation: 22906

Using QApplication with command line arguments

QApplication::QApplication ( int & argc, char ** argv )

Initializes the window system and constructs an application object with argc command line arguments in argv.

Warning: The data referred to by argc and argv must stay valid for the entire lifetime of the QApplication object. In addition, argc must be greater than zero and argv must contain at least one valid character string.

From this link: http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qapplication.html#QApplication

What can be the arguments to the executable file? Any examples?

I tried specifying something like:

anisha@linux-dopx:~/Desktop/notes/qt> make
g++ -c -m64 -pipe -O2 -Wall -W -D_REENTRANT -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_SHARED -I../../../qtsdk-2010.05/qt/mkspecs/linux-g++-64 -I. -I../../../qtsdk-2010.05/qt/include/QtCore -I../../../qtsdk-2010.05/qt/include/QtGui -I../../../qtsdk-2010.05/qt/include -I. -I. -o widgets.o widgets.cpp
g++ -m64 -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-rpath,/home/anisha/qtsdk-2010.05/qt/lib -o qt widgets.o    -L/home/anisha/qtsdk-2010.05/qt/lib -lQtGui -L/home/anisha/qtsdk-2010.05/qt/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 -lQtCore -lpthread 

anisha@linux-dopx:~/Desktop/notes/qt> ./qt 2 f g
anisha@linux-dopx:~/Desktop/notes/qt>

Nothing special happened, nor I knew what I was doing or what I was supposed to do.

EDIT 1: The code on which I tried the ./qt -style=windows.

#include <QtGui>

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

    QWidget objQWidget;
    objQWidget.show                 ();     
    objQWidget.resize               (320, 240);     
    objQWidget.setWindowTitle ("Text to be shown on the title bar\n");

    // Adding a "child" widget.
    QPushButton *objQPushButton = new QPushButton ("Text to be shown on the button", &objQWidget);
    objQPushButton->move         (100, 100);
    objQPushButton->show         ();

    return app.exec                   ();
 }

Upvotes: 2

Views: 15703

Answers (4)

Koby.G
Koby.G

Reputation: 95

Thanks, Dissident penguin! This helped me a lot! Just note that:

QString my_argv_0 = qApp->arguments.at(0);

should be replaced with:

QString my_argv_0 = qApp->arguments().at(0);

(note the additional () after 'arguments')

Upvotes: 1

king_nak
king_nak

Reputation: 11513

The arguments passed in the constructor are later accessible through the static method
QStringList QCoreApplication::arguments(). By this, command line arguments can be handled everywhere in your code.

Upvotes: 6

Dissident penguin
Dissident penguin

Reputation: 260

The suggestion about using QCoreApplication is only recommended of you have a console application. If you are using a QApplication instead, and want to access command-line arguments from inside a QWidget, you can do it with the global pointer qApp:

Here you can find the documentation from Nokia, or here from qt-project.org . In the documentation browser of Qt Creator I couldn't find it, so it is at best not that easily accessible.

so you can find:

int my_argc = qApp->arguments().count();

QString my_argv_0 = qApp->arguments.at(0);

...

and so on.

I know this question is old, but took me some time to find a way to do it from within my Main Window, so hope this helps someone else.

Upvotes: 4

Mat
Mat

Reputation: 206689

Continue reading that documentation. The set of flags QApplication acts on is listed there.

Try for example:

./qt -style=windows

The arguments that QApplication doesn't deal with are simply left alone. The ones it does process are removed (which is why that function takes non-const arguments).

Upvotes: 5

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