[Qt-interest] Creating a new slot with qtcreator

[Svenn Are Bjerkem]

Hi,
I'm following "The independent Qt Tutorial" address book example on
http://www.digitalfanatics.org/projects/qt_tutorial/chapter07.html and
obviously this tutorial is using Qt Designer and an older version of
Qt, but I wanted to take the challenge to re-perform it in qtcreator.

Now I am a bit stuck on the part where the addContact() slot is
supposed to be created. From a search on google it looks as if there
is no way of defining a new slot the way Qt Designer does it in this
tutorial.

I use MainWindow instead of frmMain as qtcreator start with a set of
predefined file and class names, and I tried to create a new slot by
editing the MainWindow.h file and add

private slots:
    void addContact();
    void on_aAddContact_triggered();

in the hope that something would happen automagically behind the scene
when I saved the file. Alas, this did not happen. The selection boxes
in the signal and slot editor did not show any new slot that I could
connect to. Maybe I am supposed to put the code that would go into the
addContact() slot definition into on_aAddContact_triggered() instead.

I will do that, but maybe some of the more qtcreator savvy users could
shed some light on how qtcreator wants the user to use slots. Maybe
complete slot edit is a future feature of qtcreator.
-- 
Svenn