Saturday, March 25, 2006

My First Qt App

Well, not quite my first - I've written Hello World apps before. And I've hacked on plenty of KDE stuff. But this is my first app from scratch, and I'm well on my way. It took a while to decide where to start: KDE3 with Qt3, or Qt4 on its own? KDevelop or Kate? Autotools, Scons, Cmake or Qmake? Well, I plumped for Qt4, Kate and Qmake: Qt4 because it's newer than Qt3 and there's less to learn (and the API looks nicer); Kate because when I'm learning something it's nice to tie things together myself, without having to learn how KDevelop manages it's projects too; Qmake because all the Qt tutorials and things talk about it, and again, it seemed to put the least obstacles in the way of learning Qt.

So I now have a nice main window, a few dialogue boxes, saving and loading Xml files - most of the GUI for my app. All I have to do now is the hard part. The guts of the programme. What is it? You'll just have to wait and see. I don't want to go getting people's hopes up only to dash them to pieces in a few days when I realise I've bitten off more than I can chew.

Oh, just one problem: I have a QTreeView, with a QDirModel attached, and I'm trying to find out when the selection is changed. For the other lists and things I've got it working fine, but I've tried on_listView_selectionChanged, currentChanged, and various other combinations of things from the documentation, but no luck so far. Does anyone have any wonderful ideas how to make that work?

1 comment:

James Ots said...

Aha! I hadn't noticed there was a selection model as well as the item model. It's working now. Thanks.