QValidator Class Reference
Detailed Description
The QValidator class provides validation of input text.The class itself is abstract. Two subclasses, QIntValidator and QDoubleValidator, provide basic numeric-range checking, and QRegExpValidator provides general checking using a custom regular expression.
If the built-in validators aren't sufficient, you can subclass QValidator. The class has two virtual functions: validate() and fixup().
validate() must be implemented by every subclass. It returns Invalid, Intermediate or Acceptable depending on whether its argument is valid (for the subclass's definition of valid).
These three states require some explanation. An Invalid string is clearly invalid. Intermediate is less obvious: the concept of validity is difficult to apply when the string is incomplete (still being edited). QValidator defines Intermediate as the property of a string that is neither clearly invalid nor acceptable as a final result. Acceptable means that the string is acceptable as a final result. One might say that any string that is a plausible intermediate state during entry of an Acceptable string is Intermediate.
Here are some examples:
For a line edit that accepts integers from 10 to 999 inclusive, 42 and 123 are Acceptable, the empty string and 5 are Intermediate, and "asdf" and 1114 is Invalid.
For an editable combobox that accepts URLs, any well-formed URL is Acceptable, "http://www.trolltech.com/," is Intermediate (it might be a cut and paste action that accidentally took in a comma at the end), the empty string is Intermediate (the user might select and delete all of the text in preparation for entering a new URL) and "http:///./" is Invalid.
For a spin box that accepts lengths, "11cm" and "1in" are Acceptable, "11" and the empty string are Intermediate, and "http://www.trolltech.com" and "hour" are Invalid.
fixup() is provided for validators that can repair some user errors. The default implementation does nothing. QLineEdit, for example, will call fixup() if the user presses Enter (or Return) and the content is not currently valid. This allows the fixup() function the opportunity of performing some magic to make an Invalid string Acceptable.
QValidator is typically used with QLineEdit, QSpinBox and QComboBox.
- See also:
- QIntValidator, QDoubleValidator, QRegExpValidator, {Line Edits Example}
Definition at line 37 of file qvalidator.h.
Public Types | |
| enum | State { Invalid, Intermediate, Acceptable } |
Public Slots | |
| void | deleteLater () |
Signals | |
| void | destroyed (QObject *=0) |
Public Member Functions | |
| bool | blockSignals (bool b) |
| const QObjectList & | children () const |
| bool | connect (const QObject *sender, const char *signal, const char *member, Qt::ConnectionType type=Qt::AutoConnection) const |
| bool | disconnect (const QObject *receiver, const char *member=0) |
| bool | disconnect (const char *signal=0, const QObject *receiver=0, const char *member=0) |
| void | dumpObjectInfo () |
| void | dumpObjectTree () |
| QList< QByteArray > | dynamicPropertyNames () const |
| virtual bool | event (QEvent *) |
| virtual bool | eventFilter (QObject *, QEvent *) |
| template<typename T> | |
| T | findChild (const QString &name=QString()) const |
| template<typename T> | |
| QList< T > | findChildren (const QRegExp &re) const |
| template<typename T> | |
| QList< T > | findChildren (const QString &name=QString()) const |
| virtual void | fixup (QString &) const |
| bool | inherits (const char *classname) const |
| void | installEventFilter (QObject *) |
| bool | isWidgetType () const |
| void | killTimer (int id) |
| void | moveToThread (QThread *thread) |
| QString | objectName () const |
| QObject * | parent () const |
| QVariant | property (const char *name) const |
| QValidator (QObject *parent) | |
| void | removeEventFilter (QObject *) |
| void | setObjectName (const QString &name) |
| void | setParent (QObject *) |
| bool | setProperty (const char *name, const QVariant &value) |
| void | setUserData (uint id, QObjectUserData *data) |
| bool | signalsBlocked () const |
| int | startTimer (int interval) |
| QThread * | thread () const |
| QObjectUserData * | userData (uint id) const |
| virtual State | validate (QString &, int &) const =0 |
| ~QValidator () | |
Static Public Member Functions | |
| static bool | connect (const QObject *sender, const char *signal, const QObject *receiver, const char *member, Qt::ConnectionType=Qt::AutoConnection) |
| static bool | disconnect (const QObject *sender, const char *signal, const QObject *receiver, const char *member) |
| static uint | registerUserData () |
Protected Member Functions | |
| virtual void | childEvent (QChildEvent *) |
| virtual void | connectNotify (const char *signal) |
| virtual void | customEvent (QEvent *) |
| virtual void | disconnectNotify (const char *signal) |
| int | receivers (const char *signal) const |
| QObject * | sender () const |
| virtual void | timerEvent (QTimerEvent *) |
Protected Attributes | |
| QObjectData * | d_ptr |
Static Protected Attributes | |
| static const QMetaObject | staticQtMetaObject |
Properties | |
| QString | objectName |
| the name of this object | |
Friends | |
| class | QApplication |
| class | QApplicationPrivate |
| class | QCoreApplication |
| class | QCoreApplicationPrivate |
| struct | QMetaObject |
| class | QThreadData |
| class | QWidget |
Related Functions | |
| (Note that these are not member functions.) | |
| T | qFindChild (const QObject *obj, const QString &name=QString(), T dummy=0) |
| T | qFindChild (const QObject *obj, const QString &name) |
| QList< T > | qFindChildren (const QObject *obj, const QString &name=QString(), T dummy=0) |
| QList< T > | qFindChildren (const QObject *obj, const QRegExp ®Exp) |
| QList< T > | qFindChildren (const QObject *obj, const QString &name) |
| T * | qobject_cast (QObject *object) |
| QObjectList | |
| void * | qt_find_obj_child (QObject *parent, const char *type, const QString &name) |
The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:
- qt-x11-opensource-src-4.2.3/src/gui/widgets/qvalidator.h
- qt-x11-opensource-src-4.2.3/src/gui/widgets/qvalidator.cpp