How do you set the message text for QErrorMessage widget?

[David Wysocki]

I can't seem to find a method to set the message

setInformativeText method doesn't exist in this class.

Can anyone help?

[David Wysocki]

I have the error message dialog working but don't understand why the second statement is needed.

oErrorMsg:showMessage("Test message")

oErrorMsg:exec()

Can someone explain why the class behaves this way? Thank you.

[Pritpal Bedi]

Hi David

setInformativeText method doesn't exist in this class.

QErrorMessage() does not have this method. Nor QDialog()

which this class inherits. Only QMessageBox() have this message.

Qt is the culprit here.

Does above reply make any sense ?

Pritpal Bedi

[Pritpal Bedi]

David

I have the error message dialog working but don't understand why the second statement is needed.

oErrorMsg:showMessage("Test message")

oErrorMsg:exec()

Can someone explain why the class behaves this way? Thank you.

I suggest you to study Qt documentation on this subject.

For now:

:exec() is the method to invoke QDialog() as a modal window.

Which must be the case with Error reporting.

Hope you should be comfortable by now.

BTW : why did you asked this question ?

Do you want this dialog to behave in different way ?

If yes, in what way ?

Pritpal Bedi

[Pritpal Bedi]

Hi

oErrorMsg:showMessage("Test message")

oErrorMsg:exec()

A correction:

:showMessage() displays the dialog and returns back to 

the application. It then is in non-modal state.

If you call :exec() then it will become modal and control 

will not be returned to the application.

QErrorMessage() is meant for Qt programmers.

For Harbour, you can design/devise/exploit QMessageBox().

Pritpal Bedi

[David Wysocki]

Hi, thank you for all the feedback. I used QErrorMessage because I liked the look better than QDialog.

I understand the behavior of the class now.

Thanks again.