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... alwaysdisplaythesamevalue.Ifthe user changesthevalue via theslider ,the value mustalsobeadjusted in thespinboxandinthelabel. Thesameappliestothe slider andlabel if theuseradjusts thevalue in the spin ... recycled paperQt 4Qt 4 THE ARTOF BUILDING Qt APPLICATIONSDANIEL MOLKENTIN THE BOOKof THE BOOK of Qt 4 THE BOOK of THE BOOK of Qt 4đMOLKENTIN 1 Basics,Tools, and First CodeSeveral Qt classeshaveQObject ... structureasshowninFigure1.3is therebycreated.Boththe layoutobject andthe twolabels, which aresubobjectsofthe windowobject,mustbegenerated on theheapusing new.Onthe otherhan d, wegeneratethewindowon thestack usingQWidgetwindow;,...
... nowByteConverterDialogdecEdittextChanged()setText()hexEdittextChanged()setText()binEdittextChanged()setText()decChanged()hexChanged()binChanged()We can connect thesignals andslots of theline-edit widgets from theByteCon-verterDialog to thesignals andslots of theByteConverter class, for example, the hexChanged()signalofthe decEdit object ... anumber of widgets together,you can first highlightthem bydrawingarectangle around them allwiththe left mousebutton, andthen choosethe desiredlayout, either from thecontextmenuwhich appearsintheselection ... framework. Thesecan be found in theWidgetBox,which theprogram normallyplaces on theleftside of thescreen.Tocreateanewlabel, welook for theDisplayWidgets group(atthebottomofthe box)and pull theLabel...
... ClickSplitterHandle::mouseDoubleClickEvent()wefirstdetermine thealignment of thesplitter.Weobtainthe positionofthe splitter,using theQSplitter::indexOf()method. This is also thepositionofthe widgetlyingtothe rightof(or directlybeneath) thesplitter.Forreasons ... horizontalsplitters.5.3.1BehaviorDuringSizeChangesThefreedom of movementallowed theuserbythesplitter is restricted bythewidgets involved :The smallest sizeisspecifiedbytheminimumSizeHintor(if set)theminimumSizeproperty.Ifthe user triestoshrinkthe ... weleaveitoutbyspecifyingQMessageBox::NoButton.Thestatuscode returned byQMessageBox::question() corresponds to thevalue of thebuttonchosenbytheuser. To checkwhether theuserhas answered theques-tion...
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