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[Ian Crotty <archangel114@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just more things to clean up over the next five weeks.

Ian Crotty
UTS Hardware Technician
Ball State University


On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Zach Elko <zachelko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> No problem, I figured as much. the graphical builders are nice, but they
> create issues like this. Even I looked at that thinking it was "fine" for
> the longest time and then I'm like... wait a second.....
>
>
> Zach J. Elko
> Ball State University Unified Technology Support
> Certified Hardware & Software Technician
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Ian Crotty <archangel114@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Was what I saw based on a document I read.  I never really thought about
>> it I suppose.  Makes sense.  Bad habits developed from someone else's bad
>> habits.
>>
>> Ian Crotty
>> UTS Hardware Technician
>> Ball State University
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Zach Elko <zachelko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> As I was making some changes to Sleuths, I came across some interesting
>>> syntax...
>>>
>>> intviewButton = new QPushButton;
>>> intviewButton = ui->intviewButton;
>>>
>>> nextButton = new QPushButton;
>>> nextButton = ui->nextButton;
>>>
>>> lastButton = new QPushButton;
>>> lastButton = ui->lastButton;
>>>
>>> noteButton = new QPushButton;
>>> noteButton = ui->noteButton;
>>>
>>> Since this UI was created with QT Creator / Designer, all of the GUI
>>> object stuff is done with the ui file. For example, from ui_mainwindow.h:
>>>
>>> radioButton3 = new QRadioButton(centralWidget);
>>> radioButton3->setObjectName(QString::fromUtf8("radioButton3"));
>>> radioButton3->setGeometry(QRect(930, 290, 91, 20));
>>> radioButton3->setIconSize(QSize(23, 23));
>>>
>>> As you can see, we don't (and shouldn't) be new'ing all of our GUI
>>> elements in the implementation class for our window, it's just a useless and
>>> wasteful step.
>>>
>>> I've fixed this issue in mainwindow.cpp for SleuthsScene2. If you come
>>> across it in any other files, please comment out all lines that look of the
>>> form: someGUIThing = new GuiThing; someGUIThing = ui->someGUIThing;
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Zach J. Elko
>>> Ball State University Unified Technology Support
>>> Certified Hardware & Software Technician
>>>
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