[Qt-interest] newbie: error with building project

[John McClurkin]

john doe wrote:
> Hello all,
>             I am a newbie with Qt. I have tried to find my answer on the 
> net but could not figure out the exact solution. I have started on a 
> small project a basic form with a few text inputs, buttons and combo boxes.
> 
> I get the following error when I build using QDevelop and QT 4.4.3
> 
> Build (make)...
> 
> /usr/bin/uic-qt4 ui/dialog.ui -o build/ui_dialog.h
> 
> g++ -c -pipe -O2 -Wall -W -D_REENTRANT -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_GUI_LIB 
> -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_SHARED -I/usr/share/qt4/mkspecs/linux-g++ -I. 
> -I/usr/include/qt4/QtCore -I/usr/include/qt4/QtCore 
> -I/usr/include/qt4/QtGui -I/usr/include/qt4/QtGui -I/usr/include/qt4 
> -Ibuild -Ibuild -o build/dialogimpl.o src/dialogimpl.cpp
> 
> src/dialogimpl.cpp: In member function ‘void DialogImpl::startjob()’:
> 
> src/dialogimpl.cpp:97: error: request for member ‘text’ in 
> ‘((DialogImpl*)this)->DialogImpl::<anonymous>.Ui::mygui::<anonymous>.Ui_mygui::operatoridcomboBox’, 
> which is of non-class type ‘QComboBox*’
> 
> make: *** [build/dialogimpl.o] Error 1
> 
> ---------------------- Build finished with 1 error(s) ----------------------
> 
> 
> When I added the combo box on the main form in QT designer, it does say 
> its of type QComboBox!
> 
> I'm basically trying to read the current text in the combo box using
> 
> void DialogImpl::startjob()
> 
> {
> 
> //declare vars
> 
> QString str;
> 
> //pick up the operator ID
> 
> str=operatoridcomboBox.text(1);

The error message from the compiler says it all. operatoridcombox is a 
pointer, not a QComboBox object. The line above should be
str=operatoridcomboBox->text(1);

> 
> testlineEdit->setText( str );
> 
> //start the job
> 
> }
> 
> 
> I have tried currentText etc.. but all spit out the same error. It'll be 
> great if someone can please help point out the issue, I'm also new to 
> C++ which kind of compounds the problem.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
>